Apollo 16: Journey to Descartes
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Actor: Spacecraft FilmsDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Digital Sound, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1200 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Spacecraft Films
Movie Reviews of Apollo 16: Journey to Descartes
Movie Review: Grand Material with the (only) Grand Prix
Summary: 5 Stars
I've just went through this marvelous material and it's absolutely fantastic. I own earlier two disc set which can serve as an apetizer to this complete and full of rare material collection.
You have here several unique footages you find nowhere else. First of all it's a famous Lunar Rover Grand Prix with John Young driving the rover up to its limits - really breathtaking and - this is the only footage of the rover taken ever. Reason is obvious - TV camera was always attached to the rover so the only coverage could be made by an astronaut equiped with the DAC camera ( Charlie Duke in this case).
Lunar EVAs are 100% complete covered either by Rover TV or DAC camera during transfers between the lunar stations ( TV would not work during the transfers due to bumpy drive making the pointing of the rover parabolical transmission antena towards the Earth impossible). Apollo 16 astronauts covered most of the transfers, however, some of them are a little bit "jumpy" - probably the DAC camera did not work 100% correctly - but it's an unique and excellent document and the rest of the transfers is covered perfectly. Again - Apollo 16 was very unique in this way. You can watch the EVAs without interruption as they happened 33 years ago in Descartes region of the Moon - very nice.
Another rare footage is dismantling and repair of the CSM after the Saturn V stack was returned to VAB from the pad and second roll-out in a windy and really very rainy weather - I believe this was the only Apollo Saturn V roll-out during such bad weather.
Audio is also excellent, e.g.you have the opportunity to listen to the CSM-LM discussion behind the Moon after discovering the SPS problem nearly killing the landing opportunity.
All other "usual" footages are here - all kind of training, launch day activities, multi-angle launch coverage, transposition and docking, Trans-Earth EVA of Ken Mattingly, CSM and LM in lunar orbit, lunar lift-off, all in splendid quality. Landing and recovery section is complete with nice shots of CSM on parachutes from helicopters and main recovery ship including splashdown, helicopter pick-up and the speaches of the astronauts on board.
Audio is (except of few minutes) everywhere, accompanying brochure is very well done with all chapters named and timings given - big help for watching. Well, you simply MUST have it, nothing else can compete the completeness and quality of this material, great job from Spacecraftfilms !
One more comment - all Spacecraftfilms DVDs are Region 0, so do not be discouraged by info given by Amazon that this DVD is Region 1. It's zero and you can play it anywhere.
Laurenc Svitok, Bratislava, Slovakia
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