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Apollo 11 Video Library
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16mm film clip.
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Apollo 11 EVA - 1 Frame Per Second - 16mm DAC - July 20, 1969 by Gary Neff, source footage courtesy John Knoll. No sound.
Just before leaving the lunar module, Buzz set the 16mm DAC (data acquisition camera, or sequence camera) to run at one frame per second. The camera was pointing down at the lunar surface from inside Buzz's lunar module window. During the following one hour ten minute sequence, the astronauts perform a variety of surface activities, both within and beyond camera range. When they are off-camera, their dense, sharply-defined shadows often remain visible, their activities obvious, and the action is like a silent Asian shadow-puppet theatre.
Highlights (times shown in minutes and seconds):
00:10 - 01:08 Neil's face is visible within his helmet when he walks in front of the lunar module. Then he walks off-camera to the left to direct Buzz's emergence through the hatch.
18:35 - 25:36 Neil appears carrying the television camera and tripod. He sets it down 18 meters northwest of the lunar module and performs a panorama for mission control.
24:10 Buzz's shadow appears, carrying the solar wind collector.
24:35 Buzz appears on-camera with the solar wind collector until 25:03 when he goes off-camera, his shadow remaining in view while he deploys it.
25:36 - 27:43 Neil completes his television panorama and moves to photograph Buzz at the solar wind collector. Then they go off-camera to the lunar module to collect the flag.
28:33 - 35:19 They erect the flag and Neil takes photographs. They move off-camera to the lunar module.
35:21 - 38:07 Buzz runs around exploring lunar mobility in the area between the lunar module and the television camera.
38:14 - 40:34 The astronauts stand by the flag to take a telephone call from the president.
40:50 - 44:16 Buzz kicks the soil repeatedly in the “Scuff/Cohesion/Adhesion” activity, sending up sprays of dirt.
44:32 - 53:56 Neil collects bulk soil samples using the scoop, sometimes in view of the camera, sometimes off-camera when his shadow remains visible. He makes repeated trips between various representative sampling sites and the sample bag mounted on the scale at the MESA.
44:50 Neil tangles his foot in the television camera cable. Buzz comes to help and swings the cable away from the immediate lunar module area.
45:05 - 45:16 The television cable is clearly visible in Buzz's hands, as are its movements disturbing the surface dust towards the tripod.
44:55 - 46:36 Buzz stamps his boot in the soil and observes the results.
47:47 - 53:03 At extreme left, Buzz repeats the boot penetration task in the soil and photographs the results. He moves in and out of camera range during this interval.
