For all mankind [DVD video]

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Title:

Added Author:

Reinert, Al, film director, film producer.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 54

Criterion collection ; 54.

Edition:

Director-approved special ed.

Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 pages : color illustrations).

ISBN:

9781604651492

Abstract:

Presents an impressionistic look at NASA's first manned flights to the moon as filmed and narrated by the astronauts who made the voyages.

General Note:

"Filmed on location by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration."

Originally released as a documentary motion picture in 1989.

"New, restored high definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by producer-director, Al Reinert"--Container.

Special features: audio commentary featuring Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan; making-of documentary; On camera, a collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts; new video program about Alan Bean's artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings; NASA audio highlights and liftoff footage; optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission control specialists; booklet features essays by film critic Terrence Rafferty and Reinert.

Performers:

Featuring interviews with various astronauts from the Apollo 1 to Apollo 17 missions.

Contents:

Special features: Audio commentary featuring Al Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon -- An accidental gift: The making of "For all mankind," a new documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists -- On camera, a collection of excerpted, on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts -- New video program about Bean's artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings -- NASA audio highlights and liftoff footage -- Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and missing control specialists -- Language: English stereo -- Subtitles: English SDH.

Technical Details:

DVD, full screen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo.

Corporate Subject:

Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)

Apollo 17 (Spacecraft)

Project Apollo (U.S.)

Subject Term:

Space flight to the moon.

Astronauts -- United States -- Interviews.

Geographic Term:

Moon -- Exploration.

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