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Topic: "After One Small Step" documentary (1994)
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4allmankind
Member Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 12-10-2010 08:18 PM
   
I stumbled upon some great 'home' documentary-style footage of some of the Apollo moonwalkers from 16 years ago! It was a piece called 'After One Small Step.' Pardon my ignorance, but is anyone familiar with this documentary? Is it available anywhere in one clip, possibly in VHS form?It is four parts and here is part one (Aldrin and part of Conrad) which links to the remaining three. Of special note for artifact collectors, part 3 shows Mitchell going though his flown item collection!
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FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-10-2010 11:17 PM
I recall this one fondly as a rather wry British documentary that allowed us to see the post-Apollo life of (as I recall) Aldrin, Conrad, Bean, Mitchell and Duke in more detail than I recalled anywhere else. Ending on a comic touch with Ed Mitchell driving, frustrated as no matter how many times he changes radio stations, all the songs reference the moon... |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 12-11-2010 06:22 AM
This sounds great, especially if it provides some good footage of Conrad's personality coming through. From what I've read he seems like one of the more interesting astronauts. I'll look at it later when I'm supposed to be grading papers. |
4allmankind
Member Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 12-11-2010 06:52 AM
Yes, you will see some spectacular footage of Conrad on his motorcycle. |
AlanLawrie
Member Posts: 95
From: hitchin, herts, UK
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted 12-11-2010 02:29 PM
Broadcast on BBC2 on 1 July 1994 |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 12-11-2010 02:43 PM
Remember it well. I've still got it on a VHS tape somewhere (not great quality). It's quite fun seeing Ed Mitchell rummaging around in an old case from his closet containing his lunar memorabilia.At one point he displays a UK flag flown to the moon as 'something that may be of interest to your viewers...' The flag actually ended up in the hands of a UK collector a few years later. |
Paul23
Member Posts: 836
From: South East, UK
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 12-11-2010 04:58 PM
I think I found this on YouTube this afternoon, some great footage of Pete Conrad on his bike with Bad Moon Rising playing in the background. |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 12-11-2010 11:17 PM
Sad to hear Pete saying in 1994 that he didn't believe that any of the original moonwalkers would be alive the next time men went to the Moon. I wouldn't have believed it then, but I'm starting to think he was prophetic. |
4allmankind
Member Posts: 1043
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 09-13-2011 01:58 PM
Unfortunately, this documentary has been removed from YouTube.Might anyone have a spare hard copy I can purchase or can anyone locate the documentary anywhere else on the web? |
Colin E. Anderton
Member Posts: 63
From: Newmarket, Suffolk, England
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 09-14-2011 02:31 AM
This was in fact the third programme of four, broadcast on BBC in July 1994, to mark the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11.I recorded all four in S-VHS. I too particularly love the part where Mitchell is desperately trying to find a radio station that isn't playing a song with a moon connection!
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Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 09-14-2011 02:55 AM
Indeed a good documentary... at least some collectors made a DVD-version of their VHS tapes  |
wdw
Member Posts: 58
From: Scotland
Registered: May 2007
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posted 09-14-2011 02:37 PM
As I did! I now have a 2.6GB MPEG-2 file of the VHS version. Contact me through my website. |
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