Questions about Apollo 16 16mm DAC footage

[james]

Need a bit of help regarding some Apollo 16 footage. It's the one showing the "UFO" (or in reality, the EVA floodlight/boom). Now some HB is saying NASA is lying about what they said on this page: www.nasa.gov/vision/space/travelinginspace/no_ufo.html

The reason he thinks NASA is lying is because the image on the site is supposedly flipped from the original film recording. The site shows the floodlight on the left of the moon, where as the copy this HB has, shows it on the right. Other clips that I found show it on the left. Which is it? (not that I consider it a big deal, but this HB does)

This HB also makes note that the NASA site debunking it says they were returning from the moon, but that the tag at the start of the film he has says "go for landing".. although I noticed it says "audio from after go for landing through just before PDI". I'm not sure what that all means, but I have the feeling that the audio has no real relation to the video? As is the audio was added later and may be from a different point in time than when the footage was recorded.

To me, these things don't seem like they should be a big deal, but some HB's will grab at anything to try and show that NASA is lying etc. I just want to know how to answer these issues. I've tried looking but it's hard finding a good list of all the footage from the Apollo missions. ALSJ only has the stuff that was shot on the surface and not in orbit (as far as I could find anyway).

Here is the video posted by the HB. Start it at about 1:00 and the floodlight will show a bit after.
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7314610959314716575&hl=en

here are the two i found which show it on the left.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA9WvmHLi0Q
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5199038862550697860&q=apollo+16

Any help would be great. Thank you.

[dwight]

G'day James, the following is directed at the HB claiming lies etc (blah blah blah) and not you, the messenger.

First of all as the footage is a bootleg of Mark Gray's copyrighted Apollo 16 DVD set. Nice that the HB respects other people's hard work. Secondly Mark's DVDs are _not_ funded by NASA. While the footage comes from NASA's archive, Mark arranges the video and films into a linear record of the missions. Claiming NASA is lying using a third party video as a reference is a bit ridiculous. Flipping of footage is hardly evidence of fraud. Mark's sets always have a disclaimer when audio is not synced. If not in the titles, then at least in the booklet.

I go by NASA's explanation. Surely the little green men would have been curious enough to come closer so they could actually wave to the crew?

[james]

Thank you very much for that info dwight!