The 1969 apollo 11 landing is one of those events: if you were alive and conscious, you remember exactly where you were when you watched the grainy broadcast of Neil Armstrong climbing gingerly down the ladder to the surface of the moon. But the quality of the picture was such that you didn't get a very good idea of his surroundings. With a new 3-D MAX film about the Apollo moon missions, Magnificent Desolation, Tom Hanks wants to put the audience right there beside Neil when he first kicked up lunar dust. The film is a collage of some of the 32,000 photographs that astronauts took with a large-format Hasselblad camera in the 300-plus hours they spent exploring the moon, lunar surface film footage, computer-generated images, and live-action re-creations. The producers effectively rebuilt the lunar landscape on soundstages on the Sony/Columbia lot in Los Angeles (conspiracy theorists will recognize this as the "real" location of the first moon landing).
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