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Apollo 11 Facts Project 250033-06.mp4 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2011 · Film & Animation

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Mission Control During Spacecraft Recovery
Pan over room of technicians & engineers, some around edges holding American flags.  Waving flags in front of Apollo 11 poster & video screen; technicians w/ cigars standing among control consoles.
Video of helicopter on deck of carrier.
[Apollo 11, 1969-1989]  Glassed control room w/ engineers at consoles.  View down on rocket on stand; CU Von Braun; engineers at consoles & VO of count down commands.  CU rocket engine vents intercut w/ engineers & rocket parts.
CU man drinking beer in sun, woman watching w/ binoculars.
Top of Saturn V SA-506 rocket in foreground & runways (?) below.  Pan of tourists  viewing from alongside canal; men w/ cameras.  Antennas rotating.  Hornet & banner.  Engineers in tracking room (?).  
Cars w/ Armstrong & other astronauts past, people leaning out window & ticker-tape onto parade w/ astronauts passing below.  Good telephoto shot of police escorting cars & ticker-tape.\
Still of three astronauts, l. to r. Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin.
Tracking shot from above  of Volkswagen camper vans, helicopter shadow seen.  Cut to passing rows of electronic equipment / computers / consoles & engineers.
LS of room.
Pedestrians along sidewalk in business suits.
LS of engineers in Mission Control (?) during Apollo 11 countdown.  MCUs.  Swing arm leaving rocket.  Tourists listening.  Engineer(s) listening.  Cameras; spectators w/ binoculars.
Engines ignite, flames & rocket slowly lifting as equipment moves away.
LS from behind cameramen of rocket lifting off; CU pan faces of spectators watching in sun, looking up & shielding eyes.
Rocket against blue sky, following.
Engineers applauding, Von Braun w/ binoculars around neck.  Quick stills of historical figures.  Engineers introducing & shaking hands.  Laughing.  Astronauts (?).
MS Engineers intently listening, pan to VP Spiro Agnew at microphone, engineers applauding, handshaking as he leaves.
Title:  Apollo 11 Launch.  MLS of gantry w/ Saturn V, ignition & flames & rocket lifting off, dust raised & settling.
Interior of technicians at consoles, moon activity on video in front.  Large control center w/ men looking at consoles & screens in back & front of room partially visible.
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