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Post by PeterB on Aug 29, 2005 19:16:11 GMT -4
When my wife and I got home last night she gave me an unexpected present: The 2-DVD set of "Apollo 13." Got to bed a bit late last night! (And now I dare not complain about her looking at shopping catalogues! )
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Post by LunarOrbit on Aug 29, 2005 19:44:49 GMT -4
You mean you didn't already have it?!?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 29, 2005 23:38:06 GMT -4
Well the Special Ed just come out, so I grabbed it too. But then I'm just starting my Apollo DVD collection. I have The Apollo Story presented by Sir Patrick Moore, Spacecraft Film's Apollo 11 and Ron Howard's Apollo 13. Can wait to get rich enough to buy the other Spacecraft Films ones and a copy of The Right Stuff, if I find one. I'm hoping that the From the Earth to the Moon Special Edition will come out on Zone 4 too. If I can get all that, I'll be a seriously happy camper.
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Post by PeterB on Aug 29, 2005 23:48:45 GMT -4
Yes, I'm rather looking forward to getting a copy of FTETTM-SE too.
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Post by Kiwi on Aug 30, 2005 11:05:39 GMT -4
The very first DVDs I bought last November, when I bought a DVD player, were "The Right Stuff" and three excellent el-cheapos at only $7 each which had some of the early Nasa films in a much better quality than other DVDs. Since then I have added "The Dish" and three more documentaries about Apollo. Ron Howard's "Apollo 13" has always been near the top of my wanted list but it apparently hasn't been on sale in New Zealand for about four years. So, I was thrilled to find about 30 hours ago that it is available again so I immediately ordered it, along with another classic movie that was high on my list, "Crocodile Dundee." Could only get a Region 1 NTSC DVD of that, so it's a good thing that we have multi-region players in New Zealand. Back to Apollo, does anyone know the four-DVD set that has recently become available, "The American Space Odyssey"? It seems to be good value if its contents are good quality. www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/781212I'm particularly keen on getting DVDs with high-quality full length copies of the Nasa Apollo, Gemini and Mercury films, if anyone can put me onto some. There are plenty of rubbishy, poor-quality edited versions, some with only 8 minutes of the films instead of the original 28 minutes.
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Post by rocketdad on Aug 31, 2005 11:15:48 GMT -4
I strayed into the twisted world of moon-hoax by mistake the other day, (I googled "moon movie") but what I really want is to find some films to watch with my kids, 5 and 3. I'm a stay-at-home-dad.
The Right Stuff is too long, and Apollo 13 is about things going wrong. I want to inspire my kids, because I think that by the time they are heading off to college or enlisting, things might be pretty interesting again. I wanna start inspiring them now.
I'm gonna spray glue pictures of the moon rover on a cardboard box, (I've found pictures of all 4 sides, and one of them has the lander in the background) and a diagram of the control panel for one flap. Now I need a box the right size... he typed, looking around the office...
I would like to see both fiction and fact, and cartoons are always attention-keepers, if anybody knows any good ones to look for.
I studied anthropology and am a carpenter by trade, so I'm not really up on all the Apollo details. I was 2 in '69.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 31, 2005 11:41:45 GMT -4
Well if you want the real deal, the Spacecraft Films is the best shot, but they'd be rather dry and boring for kids I'd be guessing.
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Post by Al Johnston on Aug 31, 2005 12:04:46 GMT -4
"The Dream is Alive" was originally made for IMAX, but is available on DVD.
It's spectacular and fairly short...
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Post by Count Zero on Aug 31, 2005 16:37:05 GMT -4
I find the the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon tremendously inspiring. Every time I feel myself daunted by a personal task, or depressed about the state of humanity in general, I throw in an episode of this to remind me of what mankind is capable of doing on a good day. Episodes 1, 5, 10 & 12 are fine for kids. They would also like episode 7, though some grown-ups might find it risque. I would have no qualms about showing it to kids: They would think it's funny. The rest of the episodes are more adult fare, but are still good. Episode 4 is outstanding.
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Post by Al Johnston on Aug 31, 2005 16:53:08 GMT -4
"Spider" is probably my favourite episode "Remember when seven years was a long time?" "Remember when $13million was a lot of money?" but "That's all there is" (ep7) was good too. By modern standards the swearing is almost non-existent
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Post by Count Zero on Aug 31, 2005 19:50:43 GMT -4
"Spider" is probably my favourite episode I have different favorites for different moods. "Spider" (episode 4) really highlights just how clueless the hoax-believers really are. These guys have a really cool job! Can you imagine someone asking you, "So, what do you do for a living?" and being able to answer, "I build spaceships to land men on the Moon." Can you imagine the pride you would feel to be a part of that? Can you imagine the thrill of working on a project like this? Solving problems that no one had even imagined a few years before? Helping it all come together and then seeing the things you built sitting on the surface of the Moon?
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Post by Al Johnston on Sept 1, 2005 2:40:24 GMT -4
These guys have a really cool job! Can you imagine someone asking you, "So, what do you do for a living?" and being able to answer, "I build spaceships to land men on the Moon." Can you imagine the pride you would feel to be a part of that? Can you imagine the thrill of working on a project like this? Solving problems that no one had even imagined a few years before? Helping it all come together and then seeing the things you built sitting on the surface of the Moon?It's certainly one of the most inspirational episodes, and conveys the excitement well: from when they guys spent a night building a cardboard mock-up to overcoming getting some of the sums wrong.
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Post by rocketdad on Sept 10, 2005 13:05:13 GMT -4
Thanks for the recommendations about "From the Earth to the Moon." My library has it on DVD, so I've been watching myself and then watching it with my 5-year-old.
He's a pretty typical hyper kid -- he can't sit still unless he's interested. He can sit and watch a 90 minute video about the Daylight Express (great stuff, for steam train fans), but gets "red lighted" in kindergarten on the first week.
He's really enjoying it, but obviously a lot of the dialog goes over his head. He told me at breakfast his favorite part so far is when Armstrong crashes the camera into the moon in the lander sim. Typical kid, likes percussive humor.
We launch model rockets, and we've had our share of minor catastrophies. We've even lost an astronaut -- a 4-inch action figure on an underpowered booster. By the time it was going fast enough to stabilize it was pointed northeast at about 30 degrees from horizontal, headed off into a neighborhood full of mature Douglas spruce trees. That helps him understand the perspective of how difficult the engineering is for real rockets, and what the risks are for real astronauts.
The videos are also good at showing how much work goes into a few minutes of exitement.
I'll be skipping "the original wive's club" with him, but my wife said she would like to see it. They do a great job all thru the series of humanizing the drama of it all, and making ordinary people with pocket-protectors into real heros.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Sept 10, 2005 13:22:44 GMT -4
There's a bit of nudity in the Apollo 12 episode (a couple of bare butts) and some swearing, but other than that From the Earth to the Moon should be ok for a 5 year old.
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Post by rocketdad on Sept 10, 2005 14:06:24 GMT -4
There's a bit of nudity in the Apollo 12 episode (a couple of bare butts) and some swearing, but other than that From the Earth to the Moon should be ok for a 5 year old. We've already watched it. A flash of skin seems to affect small children much less than gratuitous death and dismemberment popular in modern entertainment. In the context of the A12 episode with it's emphasis on sillyness of that crew, explaining that it's a joke for ground crew to put pictures of pretty girls in the checklists isn't difficult, and it flips by pretty fast. And naked astronauts is just hilarious. The context of the clean C/SM vs. the filthy moonwalkers is pretty obvious. Context helps a lot with kids. We don't watch tv in our house. I dislike commercials with an intense fury.
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