Apollo: az elveszett felvételek

As far as the quality of the restored footage is concerned, I was a little put off by this year's documentary Apollo 11, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy The Forgotten Films all the same. True, this documentary is classic through and through, and I was sorry to see that it came to the cinemas with the typically harmful Czech documentary dubbing (the Czech voices lack emotion, you almost can't tell when the narrator is speaking and when the period footage is being heard, not to mention the oddities of translation), but in short – the footage that mattered made up for everything. Apart from some great views of the moon (and apart from the shots of the hapless Apollo 1 crew – they really must have filmed it all!), I particularly liked the scenes of the astronauts' ground training – at the volcano in Hawaii, in the desert,and in the rainforest. The 1969 film bounces nicely back in time and, unlike the aforementioned Apollo 11, counts on a viewer who doesn't know much about the conquest of the moon but would like to. (2019.09.27)