NASA releases partially restored Apollo 11 footage

Today, NASA released a sneak preview of restored video from Apollo 11! The footage is digitally cleaned from archival tapes, and is part of an ongoing project (due to finish in September) to get all the video processed and restored for release. The footage was obtained using archival tapes found at the National Archives as well as CBS archives. The tapes were scanned and cleaned using state-of-the-art digital techniques, and clearly show visible improvement. Many of the noisy artifacts from the archived tapes have been removed, and the new footage shows details not previously available. I have uploaded a montage of the Apollo 11 footage to YouTube (the higher-def version can be seen at this link): Let me be clear here: this video is not from any "lost" tapes!There were rumors that NASA had found tapes that were lost years ago, and these showed the Apollo 11 footage in unprecedented ...