This 16mm reel No. 57 in the NASA Aeronautics And Space Report series shows us some very interesting and rare views of the various kinds of equipment and processes used in the analysis of the Apollo 11 lunar return samples, with many of the scientists discussing the initial findings that they had in 1969. Fascinating historical stuff! This reel was transferred from my own 16mm archive print using my Eiki Telecine. The Eiki projects a 24fps print at 30 frames per second for a flickerless NTSC transfer. A special diffusion plate eliminates the 'hot spot' of the projector, and the sound is pulled right from the optical track.
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Wow, what a coincidence, SciShow just released a video on the samples that were saved that we are just getting around to opening up just moments ago! Couldn't have been timed better!
Fran keep uploadong these kind of videos.
i have enjoyed each video you have uploaded since ive subbed.
thankyou
awesome stuff seeing this really was impressive.
the old film is still holding minus the audio slippage but still great!
love watching stuff on space and science.
thankyou for uploading this.
i really enjoyed watching it.
My dad was an analytical physicist / chemist that had his own lab. When JPL or McDonald Douglas got behind on the testing the lunar samples he got the job to finish testing. The lab was in our back yard and was petty exciting to see moon dust back then. Under the contract, he couldn't tell anybody about it for ten years. I still have the apparatus.
Well, the flutter and wow helped disguise my morning give minute gagging on sinus drip that now seems to be a regular thing after coffee and cereal.
Another great little gem there Fran, Good to know all the Tax Dollars spent on the moon wasn't wasted LOL
Get well soon Fran
Dear Fran, thank you very much for saving and presenting these historical information media. I cannot understand how someone could dislike these videos. Even if I'd dislike the content of the filmes presented, I'll never dislike someone who spends work into converting and presenting such rare and historical movies.
Thumbs up.
Universal Answer: This print is shrinking, so the sprockets were not 100% lining up with the pins in the two feeding cogs. The difference in the slippage was pulling on the section after the gate, where the film goes from intermittent to continuous motion, and the error is heard as in inconsistent speed over the flywheel.
Hey Fran. How come there is so much WOW on the audio ? With it being sprocket fed, I did'nt think that was be possible. I've never had it with my 8mm films.
Hi Fran. 1969? That must have been a rushed production to get a copyright that soon after Apollo 11 had brought back the first "moon rock" samples. Nevertheless a very cool film.
The sound reminded me of Saturday morning pictures ( UK ) they had really old films on some time with that sound it was great we all laughing very hard.
I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how the sound got messed up so badly. Whoever made that print on to BW film stock must have been doing it with some rather janky equipment.
Looks like John Hutchinsons, apartment/ lab, before he went nuts.
He made many, more important discoveries.
Than an exhaustive examination of lunar rutile would yield though.
I really liked this one!
But it sounds like there’s a lot of ‘flutter’ (is that the right word for film?) on this one, do you know if that was the actual film or is your projector starting to get unhappy?