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March 08, 2019

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KC

That sounds so very cool.

(One option for losing the footage would be by "putting it in a very safe place" to make sure it doesn't get stolen - but, since this is an unusual thing, you don't have an *established* very safe place for it yet, and whoever it is forgets. *Or* that a random custodian finds the stack of incoherently-labeled boxes in the safe-place 2nd-sub-basement broom closet and moves them to a proper archival non-custodial storage space and they just get mixed in with the things that are catalogued - but never get catalogued themselves. That'd be my best guess. But yes: 1. make copies and 2. don't lose things like that!)

TheQueen

KC - further research reveals that it was shot on 70mm film, and TVs can’t play 70mm film, and no one was planing on doing a documentary movie since it just happened, and then the technology became outdated and they couldn’t play it so it never came out of storage, and then everyone but one archivist forgot about it.

KC

That is hilarious. :-) How long did it take them to think of asking all the NASA archivists if they knew where the footage was? (Archivists are magic.)

theQueen

KC- I had to hunt just to get that little scrap of detail on how they lost the footage. They made it sound like the NASA contact for the movie was the archivist who unearthed it. I still feel like they're hiding something.

KC

They probably are. Losing things is embarrassing; the precise mechanism by which something was lost is almost always more specifically embarrassing.

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