Apollo 17

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2272
Date Released
18 Dec 1972
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Apollo 17. DESCRIPTION: Blast off and landing of Apollo 17, with pictures of the crater of orange dust, possibly volcanic ash, indicating some form of life perhaps a thousand million years ago. SHOTLIST: GV Apollo 17 on launch pad. SLV nose of Apollo 17. SV pan astronauts say goodbye to wives and enter truck to take them to rocket. SV wives waving. SV truck. LV (night) rocket on launch pad. GV pan interior control centre. LV rocket (count down numbers bottom left of screen) rocket motor fire and rocket starts to lift off, pan up. SV crowd watching. LV rocket in flight. GV Earth as seen from surface of moon. GV pan across surface of moon. SV two astronauts working on lunar surface. SV astronauts banging in core tube. SV as he pulls core tube out and examines samples. CU astronaut turns core tube to camera to show dust samples. SV 2 astronauts moving around on moon. GV lunar surface. SLV astronaut moving across service. GV zoom in to crater where orange dust was found. SV zoom in to CU and pan rocks in crater. SV two astronauts examining samples of orange dust in core tube. Astronauts. Captain Eugene Cernan, Commander Ronald Evans and Doctor Harrison Jack Schmitt.
Keywords
Space; Exploration and explorers
Locations
United States of America
Footage sources
France
Card file number
98717
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
224
Story extras:
Film clip

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How to cite this record

'Apollo 17', British Movietone News Issue No. 2272, 18 Dec 1972. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/29695 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)