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Topic: Apollo crew walkout (to launch) imagery
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LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
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posted 11-27-2022 04:23 AM
  
There is a photo of the Apollo 1 crew walking out of the Flight Crew Training Building. The date might have been January 17, 1967. Here is the caption: Grissom, front, White, and Chaffee, still inside, leave the Flight Crew Training Building on their way to Launch Complex 34 to meet with the media. |
Headshot
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From: Vancouver, WA, USA
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posted 11-27-2022 11:02 AM
There is an interesting full page image of the Apollo 7 crew walking from the transfer van to the launchpad in the book that was included with the To The Moon Time-Life Records set. The book is titled "To The Moon II: The Story in Pictures and Text." The image in on page 150. |
heng44
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From: Netherlands
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posted 11-27-2022 12:56 PM
Here are the two photos mentioned above. Image credit: Armando Oliu  NASA photo |
LM-12
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posted 11-27-2022 04:17 PM
Yes, that is the photo I was referring to. Thank you, Ed. |
Headshot
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posted 11-27-2022 07:10 PM
Spot on! Thanks Ed. |
LM-12
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posted 01-08-2023 05:25 PM
There is this clip found on Twitter of the Apollo 12 crew walkout in 70mm from a very different perspective. |
LM-12
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posted 01-13-2023 09:23 PM
I count 10 people in the elevator. |
Blackarrow
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posted 01-14-2023 09:27 PM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
There is this clip found on Twitter of the Apollo 12 crew walkout in 70mm from a very different perspective.
Who shot this footage in 70mm, and for what film? For instance, is this part of the 70mm footage that was used in the "Apollo 11" documentary? I remember that the producers of that film said that they had extensive 70mm footage from post-Apollo 11 missions, and I have been wondering whether they intend to produce another film using that footage. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted 01-14-2023 09:46 PM
The footage was shot by filmmakers contracted by NASA, and yes, is from the same archive that was discovered in the National Archives and remastered for "Apollo 11." (The individual who posted the clip to Twitter was the archivist for the documentary.)At this time, there is no news to share about future films or projects. Ultimately, all of the film, digitized and remastered, will be available for other filmmakers to use through the National Archives. |
LM-12
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posted 01-15-2023 09:40 AM
The person taking the 70mm footage was behind the fireman, but I don't see him in any of the crew walkout photos. |
Captain Apollo
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Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-16-2023 11:16 AM
For Moonwalk One (source of much of the 65mm/70mm footage for Apollo 11) the director Theo Kamecke recalled that he used a wheelchair as a dolly in the shots of the launch center. The 65mm cameras were huge and heavy and usually on a tripod, though the operator Urs Furrer could carry the camera on the shoulder if necessary. So perhaps that's why the cameraman can't be seen? The shots do look as if they are taken from chest height. There's a behind the scenes doc here with info on the filming at this point. |
LM-12
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posted 01-17-2023 01:33 AM
Some very interesting background information there. And it even shows the Apollo 11 astronauts leaving the same elevator. |
LM-12
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posted 01-17-2023 09:12 PM
I think you can actually see the 70mm camera being used during the Apollo 12 crew walkout at 46:52 into this compilation video of Apollo 8 and Apollo 12. |
Captain Apollo
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posted 01-18-2023 10:41 AM
Yes - on the shoulder, so I was probably wrong about the wheelchair dolly. It's a monster. |
LM-12
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posted 01-29-2023 12:20 AM
It looks like the large NASA meatball insignia inside the elevator might not have been there back in 1969. |
LM-12
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posted 12-10-2023 01:29 AM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
Apollo 17 crew walkout photo for the CDDT on November 21, 1972.
Here is a film clip of the Apollo 17 crew walkout for the CDDT. There is a brief overhead shot of the crew leaving the transfer van at the pad. You also see Ron Evans sitting down in the elevator at the 320-foot level waiting for his turn to enter the White Room. |
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