The Untold Story Behind the Hit Apollo 11 Documentary 

Another great video TJ! The comparison shots at the end are awesome!

A fantastic story. Thanks so much. The documentary brought tears to my eyes when I saw it at IMAX. That first shot of the crawler was astonishing. I felt like a boy all over again. Now my two boys are obsessed with the whole Apollo program as well.

I came across this documentary completely by accident. I was randomly on the BFI IMAX Waterloo website and I noticed this documentary and it only had 2 days left until they would stop showing it (this was September 2019). I then went to the film description and noticed the term "65/70mm" film footage and I immediately impulse bought the tickets for the next day. The experience of this film in the Waterloo theatre is one i shall never forget. The picture quality was better than anything that I had ever seen from that era and it often felt like they dressed up actors in 60s clothing and filmed them. It was so surreal to think I was watching 50 year old footage. The sound experience was amazing in the IMAX theatre with their fantastic sound system and the best parts were the launch of the Saturn V and the "Translunar injection" soundtrack; both of which got my heart racing. Impressed by the picture quality, I then purchased the Blu-Ray for this film and enjoyed the experience of seeing the 1960s not through a low quality film that is poorly maintained with dust and scratches (as most young people have seen it) but as the people back then would have seen it. It certainly messes with your perception if time. And I almost missed it and wouldn't have known about the existence of this film if I hadn't been randomly been on that website lol And now with this video, I am amazed with the side-by-side comparisons of the 16mm and 35mm transfer we were stuck with (and accepted that that was the best we had) with this gem has been discovered. I really cannot wait for future Apollo documentaries to take advantage of this high-quality wide-screen footage and leave the traditional 4:3 footage behind

This is amazing and deserves way more views thanks man!

Really well done and great selection of a video topic! What's really more impressive, though - a person carrying a 65mm camera on his shoulder or the crawler carrying a 12 million pound rocket and launch rail?

You always have the best quality videos. I learn a lot, and enjoy watching it. Great stuff, TJ!

Watched this last night on Netflix. I have to say I'm all praises! I've even wondered if the movie was just reenactments and green screens, because the quality was so good. Watching it gave me goosebumps. I felt like I'm witnessing the historic event as it is just happening today. It really gave me the sense of how proud the humans are in that moment. Thank you for the people who made this documentary.

Incredible story! That makes me appriciate this film even more! Thank for the great video!

Now if only movies theaters were open 😕

This was another well done video, thank you! "Apollo 11" is an amazing looking movie, and the video quality blew me away. Thanks for explaining it so well.

Wow! This was excellent detective/investigation work on answering my question on how Apollo 11 was filmed with 65mm film. I bought the Blu-ray of this film and the directors didn’t include what you mentioned on why this was shot in 65mm in the first place, they talked more about how they transferred it for their documentary. Thank you very much for completing the deep history of the origins on why NASA had this shot as such for the independent director back in the day. I am going to see if I can buy one of your awesome T-Shirts for a friend if they are still available.

I have been telling this story for 50 years and nobody would believe me. My father was a guidance control engineer for NASA from 1962-1970. I witnessed these guys running around the cape filming with these huge cameras. I asked one of the guys why the cameras where so big, and he told me that it was a special wide film and that one day I might see it in the movies but not on TV.

I wish could see the full 16K scan of the film in original aspect ratio, and I really hope they can use some of the 8K even 16K footages in every bestbuy and Walmart as a demo video of future TVs.

That is absolutely amazing! I never heard about this before. Wonderful shots - and great work!

And thank you so much for sharing that background!!! Awesome stuff!!!

Love those comparison shots! Definitely learned more about one of my favorite films!

This is superb content man well done. Really enjoyed this video.

Amazing! Watched this yesterday! It was INCREDIBLE!!

Man, what’s a great video. Love the tidbit about the wheelchair to film those shots! Thanks for sharing.

This movie was in cinema one single night on the anniversary, nothing more scheduled. It's in a small town cinema where you normally don't need to buy tickets in advance. Turned out it was a small audience but I hadn't taken any chances and had bought ticket in advance. Later in the autumn it was shown once or twice in big city cinema, actually in the IMAX room. I was of course there to experience it in the best way possible.

The story of discovering, saving and scanning this original film stock and putting together the AWESOME documentary Apollo 11 is an achievement worthy of every possible award.

Thx for the background info on the online movie I saw more than onze in a theatre

There's a world of difference between the 1960's stock material and this. It's Panavision, the Imax of that era. I should know, I'm a 1960 model myself, hehe, no, I actually saw that on a different video...but yes, I was there when Apollo11 happened. Great video TJ, this stuff got me hooked 51 yrs ago, and I'm still incurable.. 👍 🚀

*THANK YOU* You seriously did a great job explaining this succinctly as well as visually. Made is SO much easier to explain to family/friends. Love it! Now, just gotta get the 4K super mega hella moon dust edition ;)

Good job. I am very impressed. Thank you.

Very interesting. Thank you.

awesome review.. cant stop learning about the saturn 5 and its fotage .. ^^

Awesome explanation!

I watched this yesterday and was amazed by the quality of the images. Like you said... it was something we´d already seen before, but never like this. Really beautiful documentary, the editing is fantastic too.

Great job, dude.

Never knew this. Thank you very much

well done. Thank you

Awesome video 👍

I recorded the documentary in UHD and have just started watching it on a newish 65" Samsung 4K TV. I was seriously blown away by the opening 10 minutes. The Quality looks like it was recorded yesterday. Amazing insight into how the footage came about.

Outstanding Job! Very interesting. I feel more fascinated than I did as a boy of 11 watching it live in '69...

great job! so much i didn’t know about 😄

Very good. How things were made and by who is usually disregarded in space videos.

Excellent!

I didn't know any of this, but it explains a lot about why one of the most important events in history, was disappointingly recorded. However, it turns out that it was not, you explained it so well. Excellent job.

This was fantastic

We finally got the documentary that NASA originally intended.

Nice work, thanks :) I heard those high quality shots may be released to public those days... Any info about that ?

TJ Cooney @I Need More Space Would you ship the shirts to Singapore?

Very cool! Also makes sense to scan it as high as possible so you don't have to re-scan in a few years

Subscribed because of this......

Awesome!

I have this documentary it's beautiful.

Now, *that* was interesting!

4:07 The yellow shirt guy

On 4:07 what happened to the face of the guy on the left?

I notice that, when you start the comparisons at 7:25, the colours on the Moonwalk One footage seem different to the 65mm footage. Is that because either the Moonwalk One footage or 65mm footage (after being scanned) was colour corrected or are they both the original colours and the 65mm film can store colour information better?

so literaly, back in 60s they had equipment that could produce high definition material, but we had to wait almost 60 years to watch it properly :D

fucking brilliant piece ! Excellent

this movie felt like it was shot yesterday. i can't comperhend it didn't qualify for oscars...

Superb explanation about the TODD-AO film.... I remember going to the movies as a kid in the 70s and seeing the words “filmed in 70mm TODD-AO” 🤗

Cool. Came here specifically to find out about the incredible footage.

I heard that based on grain size, 35mm film basically Max's out at about a 4k resolution. Do you know what it would be for 65mm?

4.07 what's the guy on the lefts face doing?

Yes....

Tj, what’s the discord invite code?

Whatever you need to do to get on Patreon, do it!

dude i cant wait till 2024 till we see like 8k footage coming back from the surface of the moon and all that.

For real wish you had shirt sizes for fatties like me. I want a crew dragon shirt so bad :(

I worked on this film. I appreciate your interest. You got most of the facts right, but did you reach out to anyone to get the story right? For example, Dan didn’t just call Todd one day. Also, careful using all of the footage you’ve cut together here. A lot of it is copyrighted from different sources. Did you seek permission?

Serendipitous.

are you sure some dude called stanley not involved in this?

well.. either this, or as one group would say "it's all fake"