Posts: 596 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 02-24-2026 04:56 AM
The short film "Apollo HD" is a compilation of stunning Apollo footage upscaled using modern techniques set to a beautiful music score.
The film is a compilation of snippets from several missions from the unmanned Apollo 4 test flight thru to Apollo 17
The film was made by Mike Constantine of Moonpans by upscaling and interpolating footage from the NASA Johnson Space Center and The Apollo Flight Journal.
Longer clips of most sequences are also available on the Moonpans YouTube Channel. Please subscribe to the channel for future videos. Thanks for watching.
mmmoo Member
Posts: 596 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 03-26-2026 06:00 AM
Here is a new video onboard the Apollo 15 Rover, captured by Jim Irwin using the 16mm DAC Film Camera. Upscaled, interpolated to 60 FPS and synchronized with mission audio by Mike Constantine.
Posts: 3939 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 03-27-2026 11:02 AM
Wonderful stuff.
burnsnz Member
Posts: 92 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Jan 2004
posted 03-27-2026 02:39 PM
Fantastic. It is like watching it for the first time again.
Blackarrow Member
Posts: 3939 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 03-28-2026 11:04 AM
Depends when you first watched it!
I first saw extracts from that Apollo 15 rover-drive (with views of Mount Hadley) on the TV news in August, 1971. The movie footage was of course silent, and presented in either 625 lines colour or 405 lines B&W (depending on whether our temperamental colour TV was working). The first time I saw longer extracts of it was maybe mid-1980s on a VHS copy of the NASA film "In the Mountains of the Moon" presented in colour but with only, I think, 240 scan-lines.
So this is many orders of magnitude better!
mmmoo Member
Posts: 596 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 03-30-2026 08:08 AM
Thanks guys, as well as improving the image quality, a major difference with these videos is the increased frame rate from 12 FPS to 60 FPS, giving an ultra smooth look rather than jerky
Posts: 3939 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 03-30-2026 08:52 AM
This really demonstrates the hummocky, hilly nature of the Descartes landing-site and surrounds. Definitely not a flat mare surface.
posted 02-24-2026 04:56 AM
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