The MoonScape Documentary Has Moved to a New Home!

Our Second Online Film Festival was so successful, based on popular demand, we have moved its subject to its own free-standing website. Our Second Online Film Festival featured the documentary "Moonscape," a faithful restoration of the 3-1/2 hour moonwalk of Apollo 11.

In anticipation of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the MoonScape documentary and all 62 of its supplemental content pages from the 2nd Illudium Online Film Festival have been moved to a new stand-alone website. To see all of the legacy content plus lots more, go to https://www.apollo-11.tv

If you enter any of the legacy URLs into your browser, you will be automatically redirected to the new website. If you selected the "2nd Illudium Film Festival" in the primary navigation, you ended up here on this page.

The new website is also a work of our own Bill Anderton who has greatly expanded all of the documentary's supporting content. The documentary and all of its supplemental content remain FREE to use by all comers. Simply complete a very short registration form and you will be given immediate access to the full documentary and all of the expanded content.

The production-grade site went live at 6:00 p.m. CDT on Sunday, July 7, 2018. At that time, the 62 related pages hosted here were retired and HTML 301 permanent redirects were made for all 62 pages to automatically redirect your browsers and search engine quires to the new site.

The purpose of the new apollo.tv site and the reason for moving to a standalone site with its own brand is to use these materials in support of STEM education. Starting now, a large-scale effort will be made to get teachers in all types of educational settings to use these materials. To support teachers and schools, the use of the new website will be FREE for all users; this is a fully privately-sponsored effort.

The restored and enhanced MoonScape documentary will re-introduce the moonwalk to a whole new generation of students who have only previously seen short clips of the event and never the entire moonwalk just as our generation saw it live on broadcast TV on July 20, 1969.

In addition to the documentary, the new site has been well stocked with "explainers" for those students who want to take a deep dive into the science, technology, engineering and math of put humans onto the Moon and returning them safely to Earth.

A free private Teacher Portal has been added to provide teachers will lesson plans and suggested uses of the materials in their classroom.

You all are invited to join the new site and use the material as much as you wish. Space enthusiasts are welcome too!

Second Online Film Festival - July 18-24, 2016

We presented our second online film festival on July 18 - 24, 2016. The online festival began at 2pm CDT on Monday, July 18 and ran through midnight, Sunday, July 24.

We presented the documentary, "MoonScape" about the Apollo 11 moon landing and moonwalk that occurred on July 20, 1969. MoonScape was produced by a team led by Paolo Attivissimo, a British-Swiss-Italian science journalist, and longtime space enthusiast.

Our online film festival is timed to occur during the 47th anniversary of the July 20, 1969, moon landing.

We presented the documentary via our in-house high-quality streaming media services. All you need to participate is a broadband connection and a web browser. Our online film festival is FREE and open to anyone as a public service.

MoonScape is an open-source documentary produced and funded by space enthusiasts, featuring restored and remastered video, film footage and photographs presented in chronological order beginning with the moon landing and running through the entire extra-vehicular activity (EVA). The material is presented in its entirety. The runtime of the documentary is three hours and twenty-seven minutes (207 minutes.)

All of the source material has been restored, re-scanned and digitized from the best available sources. The live TV broadcast, the 16mm color film footage shot on the Moon and in Mission Control, and the Hasselblad 70mm color photographs taken by astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, have been fully synchronized with the audio recordings (including the onboard and Mission Control recordings) and are presented in real-time, as they happened, with full subtitles in English.

Festival Viewership Results - Final

We now have final usage reports from the entire run of the festival. In total, we served 10,713 views of MoonScape. This number only includes the number of times our media platform served the movie and doesn't count the number of people attending the festival via viewing parties. The number of people in attendance in viewing parties was not requested or collected and would not typically be reported to us.

This attendance number is a significant increase of 54% over last year's First IFS Online Film Festival that had 6,656 attendees. This year's attendance figures make this year's festival the best-attended single online event in our history. Another highlight includes the fact that almost 10% of our viewers watched the documentary using our new Chromecast feature that was debuted for the festival. We assume that a significant number of the usage of the Chromecast feature was used in watch parties to facilitate group viewing but this is only an indication and we cannot be sure.

Thank you for your patronage. Also, thank you to the MoonScape team for this excellent documentary.