Complete Set of 5 Colorama Kodak Photos in original mailing envelope with origial information card. Mailed from Rochester, NY
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Information Card reads as follows:
Your Colorama Photos of
MAN'S FIRST STEPS ON THE MOON
Beginning with John Glenn’s unforgettable orbit of the earth in 1962, Kodak films have been used by the astronauts on every manned flight in space. Through their efforts, mankind has gained many thousands of unparalleled color photographs of the earth and the moon. Among the most spectacular are the five enclosed, taken July 20, 1969, during the historic visit of Apollo 11 to the surface of the moon.
The role of Kodak, however, has been much broader. For example, each of the spacecraft launches has been recorded with Kodak color film. Upwards of 200 official cameras – not counting those of the press – were trained on each of the Apollo liftoffs, while miles of Kodak oscillograph-recording paper gave telemetry data promptly to watchful engineers.
Between August, 1966, and September, 1967, five self-contained photographic laboratories, designed and built by Kodak, orbited the moon and transmitted to earth pictures that will stand for many years as the definitive source of lunar surface information. From these Lunar Orbiter photographs – with confirmation by the manned lunar flight of Apollo 8 in December, 1968 – the best three sites for Apollo landings were chosen.
And when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin finally set foot on the moon, they brought with them a very special stereo camera – again made by Kodak – with which they took close-up photographs of the lunar surface for scientific study.
The dramatic pictures in this set were taken by Neil Armstrong with a Hasselblad camera and 70mm Kodak Ektachrome EF film. They show Edwin Aldrin descending from the Lunar Module … unloading equipment from its storage compartment … walking toward Armstrong … setting up a seismometer to record moonquakes and the impact of meterorites … and standing on the lunar surface beside the American flag.
Less than two weeks after Apollo 11 returned to earth, these five photographs appeared, each 18 feet high, in the Kodak Colorama in New York’s Grand Central Station. We present these lithographs to you through the courtesy of NASA and with the conviction that photography – and Kodak products – will continue in the vanguard as man pursues expanding frontiers.
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Reproduction by the KODAK POLYMATIC Litho Plate LN
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