Footprints on the Moon (1969)

Directed by

Bill Gibson

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers the Apollo 11 mission from the rocket rollout to the astronauts' return to Earth. It uses NASA footage and still images to show the historic moon landing.

historicinformativefactualquietnostalgicstraightforwardslow-paced

What happens

Footprints on the Moon (full title: Footprints on the Moon: Apollo 11) is a 1969 documentary film covering the flight of Apollo 11 from vehicle rollout to Splashdown and recovery. It was directed by Bill Gibson and produced by Barry Coe (neither of whom have any other credits listed on the IMDb), and is narrated by Wernher von Braun, with Pierre Jalbert doing additional voiceover as Jules Verne. It was edited by John F. Link Jr., who would later be nominated for his editing work on the 1988 film Die Hard. It is largely assembled from a variety of NASA and other news footage, with montage scenes assembled from still images standing in where no motion picture footage exists. The score includes Philip Moody's Laguna Concerto, a short work for piano and orchestra. Although Footprints on the Moon was the only contemporary theatrically released documentary of Apollo 11, it was almost forgotten (except for an occasional showing on television) for decades, until it was released on DVD in early 2010, missing the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing by less than a year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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