APOLLO 11 Directed by Todd Douglas Miller Starring: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldren, Michael Collins It’s a job that we collectively said was possible that we could do and of course the Nation itself is backing us, so we materially hope that we measure up to that. - NEIL ARMSTRONG A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon, led by Commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldren and Michael Collins. On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldren embarked on a historic lunar odyssey, successfully landing on the moon and then returning to Earth. Free of talking heads, re-enactments, and newly-recorded narration, the new documentary Apollo 11 takes viewers on this nine-day journey, constructed from astounding, never-before-seen 65mm, and 16mm footage, as well as audio culled from over 18,000 hours of tapes. A perhaps initially unintended result when NASA handed over this remarkably pristine footage to director Todd Douglas Miller, his documentary is also a fascinating time capsule of this specific era. And what was the director Todd Douglas Miller’s take on making this extraordinary documentary: I’ve been a fan of the large format films of the 40s and 50s that were told in the direct cinema style that I wanted to do with Apollo 11. The way we discovered the 65mm and seeing it for the first time was something I will never forget. There were two reels and we put on a prototype scanner that the guys here at Final Frame built and they were just little bursts of imagery every 3 or 4 seconds. The detail that we were seeing in the footage was something I had never seen before. We recreated the mission in 9 days. We have a timeline where you can see over 100 tracks of audio and that took the better half of a year to compile.
You have to whittle down to what are the key moments? What were the moments of humanity that happened? What were the things? 4
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