Stunning Trailer For The New APOLLO 11 Documentary is Filled with Incredible Never-Before-Seen Footage

If you’re a NASA geek like myself, I’ve got a trailer here for you to watch today for a new documentary called Apollo 11 and it’s absolutely stunning! The trailer itself shows off a ton of never-before-seen 70mm footage of the Apollo 11 mission and it got me completely hyped up for this movie! This is incredible footage!

Here’s the synopsis that was released:

NASA’s vaults open for the first time to spill this exquisite, never-before seen audio and 70 mm film footage of the Apollo 11 mission. The meandering cameras in Cape Canaveral capture a dreamy-eyed portrait of America as it stepped into the future, and from inside the Apollo 11 spacecraft, the amazingly jocular conversation of the astronauts punctuates each stage of the mission with lightness and charm. Yet the crowds watching the rocket are oblivious to the enormous pressure mission control is under to succeed.

Director Todd Miller takes you straight to the heart of this intense scientific and human endeavor, sharing the atmosphere and action around the final moments of the preparation, liftoff, landing, and return of the famed moon-landing mission. The footage is so clean and vibrant, it is as if you are standing at the base of the rocket. Exquisitely crafted and realized, this truly immersive experience offers a new look into one of humanity’s greatest achievements, leaving us to marvel at human ingenuity and the impulse that led humanity to space.

The footage in this film was shot by a team put together by MGM Studios, who NASA made a deal with to shoot it. The team used the same 70mm cameras to shoot the mission preparations and their aftermath with the same cameras that they used to shoot films like The Sound of Music.

Six weeks before launch, MGM dropped out because they lost interest. NASA, however, wanted to follow through with it, and they managed to keep the film crew to shoot it. Buzz Aldrin is actually one of a dozen credited cinematographers who worked on the film.

It looks like the footage was just shot! I can’t wait to watch this!

Apollo11 From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission-the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.

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