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New movie celebrates historic walk on moon
Published July 23, 2009
This past Monday, America celebrated the 40th anniversary of the moment when man first set foot on the moon, and this Friday, local residents can relive the Apollo era as a new documentary debuts at the Hollywood 10 Cinema in Scottsboro.
The film, directed by Jeffrey Roth and titled “The Wonder Of It All,” couples historic NASA recordings and rare personal footage from the lives of the astronauts with candid interviews from seven of the 12 men to ever walk on the moon.
Astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Eugene Cernan, Charlie Duke, Edgar Mitchell, Harrison Schmitt and John Young are all interviewed in the film.
In the one of the many anecdotes in the film, Mitchell, an Apollo 14 astronaut, recounts an incident during his training in which a government official asked him if he ever read books on history to which Mitchell said, “Yes, but I’m too busy at the moment making it though.”
Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon, described his time on the moon as being “like sitting in a rocking chair on God’s front porch looking back home. It was an overpowering experience.”
Roth set out to document how the Apollo missions affected each astronaut on a personal level — something he said had never been done before on film.
The documentary began development in 2004 and was independently produced and completed in 2007. The film had no distributor until recently when Indican Pictures picked it up. Because Indican Pictures is an independent distributor, the film will see a very limited theatrical release.
“The Wonder Of It All” runs 84 minutes long and is rated G.
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