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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Questions about Apollo 11
Keywords: Apollo Television Pictures
Message-ID: <212@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Date: 21 Jul 89 14:58:17 GMT
References: <1188@bcd-dyn.UUCP> <1398@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
Organization: Space Astronomy Lab, Madison, WI
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In article <1398@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson) writes:
>The one thing that stuck me was the pictures of the LEM lifting off.  And
>in color at that.  If I remember right, the first color TV camera was on
>Apollo 12, and I thing this was also the first time that they left the 
>camera on for lift off.

Yeah, and sound too.  The journalistic equivalence of colorizing.

I was surprised and offended by this, coming from an organization
that takes out full page advertisements in the Times slobbering
about excellence in news and reporting.  I next expected them
to superimpose pictures of Michael Jackson over the LEM.  Bah.
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)