A REEL of film held for 20 years in a Sydney vault could unlock the mystery of what happened to the original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The reel belongs to Australian film producer and rock video director Peter Clifton, who had all but forgotten a pristine 16-millimetre film of the moon landing was part of his vast personal film catalogue.
Mr Clifton had ordered the reel in 1979 for a rock film he was making about Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon but forgot he had it until seeing a news report on television recently.
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One small step in hunt for moon film world didn’t see
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re: One small step in hunt for moon film world didn’t see
Wow! Imagine, just finding that, especially as Nasa have lost their copy.
How would you even forget you owned something like that????
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You never know…
The US Government is a large organization. Fitting with the mindset of most of the planet the management of “stuff” is always someone else’s job. Ergo the who concept of where this stuff is located vacated the consciousness of anyone with any authority as they all thought it was someone else’s problem. Mind you I bet that all of the recordings are in the basement of the Smithsonian somewhere, just no-one knows that.
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