Friday, July 17, 2009

NASA "lost" Moon landing footage, but...


NASA claims to have lost Moon footage, but Hollywood doctored a restoration that's easier to believe is not fake and filmed on a soundstage.

Seth Borenstein (AP)

WASHINGTON – NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission. In an embarrassing acknowledgment, the space agency said Thursday that it must have erased the Apollo 11 moon footage years ago so that it could reuse the videotape. But now Hollywood is coming to the rescue.

The studio wizards who restored "Casablanca" are digitally sharpening and cleaning up the ghostly, grainy footage of the moon landing, making it even better than what TV viewers saw on July 20, 1969. [In this preposterous cover-story,] they are doing it by working from four copies that NASA scrounged from around the world. More>>