MOON LANDING,THE - ONE HOUR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
Science | 1x60' | 2019
*DELIVERY:APRILE 2019
ONE HOUR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: THE MOON LANDING celebrates
the historic 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 in a fresh and distinctive style,
starting with the iconic moment and then rewinding back one hour, in
order to focus in granular detail on the sixty minutes leading up to that
momentous event – the small step that was a giant leap.
This really is a hidden history as within that hour lie revelations about how
close triumph was to failure or even tragedy. In the hour before the walk,
the astronauts struggled to open the hatch and exit the lunar module, and
then, when they did finally succeed, without realising it, they knocked a
take-off switch that could have prevented them from leaving the moon…
The film will immerse the viewer in this intense, high-stakes environment
through a mix of archive and interview. The visuals from NASA, both
moving and still, include some of the most iconic images of all time. The
footage from Apollo 11 was remastered for the 40th anniversary in 2009,
and in 2016 another 10,000 images from every manned mission to the
moon were released.
The audio communication between the astronauts – Neil Armstrong and
Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin in the Eagle lunar module, and Michael Collins orbiting
the moon in the command module Columbia – and the team at Mission
Control in Houston gives an astonishingly detailed picture of this crucial
period, with more than two hundred messages in that hour alone
Science | 1x60' | 2019