Summary

WE CAME IN PEACE

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: WE CAME IN PEACE
File Number: AFP-61A 16mm; VTM-61A Beta SP; NET-217 DigiBeta (at 01:29:59:00); Beta SP
Color: Color
Type: Newsreel
Year: 01/01/1969
Description: Color 1969 Space program 00:00:15:00 Color 1969 MS Introductory segment with quick scenes of surf crashing on rocky coastline, gulls against New England coast buildings, late 1960s traffic jam on freeway, soldiers marching with troop commander, Times Building in New York City with message flashing across building as pedestrians pass by (Vietnam-era message: Warplanes have shot down), lead singer in rock band sings into microphone during performance as people dance, dancing miniskirted woman's legs, couple dance to rock band (waist-up shot), CU homeless man's hands holding tin cup begging for pocket change (and face of homeless black man), then blonde girl looks at puppies in pet shop window, platoon sergeants and commanders bark out their orders, CU hands, face of white-mustached elderly man, baby's feet walking, baby walking across bridge stumbles and falls 00:05:56:00 Color 1969 MS Pre-NASA era Cape Canaveral, Florida 00:06:18:00 Color 1969 MS Simulation of SPUTNIK in orbit 00:07:09:00 Color 1969 MS Mercury astronauts in training 00:07:25:00 Color 1969 CU John Glenn gets out of centrifugal device 00:07:45:00 Color 1969 MS Seven Mercury astronauts: Alan Shepard Jr, Virgil Gus Grissom, John Glenn Jr, M Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra Jr, L Gordon Cooper Jr 00:08:02:00 Color 1969 CU Alan Shepard talking 00:08:12:00 Color 1969 MS Mercury astronauts practice in anti-gravity chamber 00:09:01:00 Color 1969 CU Yuri Gagarin in capsule during first manned space shot 00:09:41:00 Color 1969 MS Alan Shepard boards Mercury rocket to become first American in space 00:11:48:00 Color 1969 MS Edward H White 2nd becomes 1st American to walk in space 00:12:57:00 Color 1967 MS White, Grissom & Chaffee prepare to board ill-fated APOLLO 1 in which they'll be killed in launchpad fire (Jan 27, 1967) 00:18:02:00 Color 1969 MS APOLLO 11 is rolled out to pad & launched 00:18:56:00 Color 1969 MS APOLLO 11 crew Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins during flight to moon 00:19:42:00 Color 1969 MS Lunar landing shuttle EAGLE disengages from capsule COLUMBIA, to land on the moon Moon landing 00:21:16:00 Color 1969 MS Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin become 1st 2 men to walk on moon 00:25:44:00 Color 1969 MS Richard Nixon talks on radio telephone to APOLLO 11 crew while they're still on the moon 00:26:47:00 Color 1969 WS Moon as seen from EAGLE as it pulls off back to capsule & earth
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