Date:         Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:35:54 -0700
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On SlashDot last week, this story was quite prominent.  It seems that 
all known videos were transferred from Goddard to the National Archives 
at some point in the past, and then moved back to Goddard some years later.

Here's the original link:  
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/one-giant-blunder-for-mankind-how-nasa-lost-moon-pictures/2006/08/04/1154198328978.html>

Robert Hodge wrote:

>I lost the link about the lost NASA tape, but has anyone at NASA considered  asking the Library Of Congress Motion Picture and Sound division for the videotape ?
> They should have it if anyone should.
>
>Bob Hodge
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>a trivial part of me would love to know who the 'let and what the film 
>were... to file in the useless but interesting part of the brain, 
>though that part is too large already! Wonder what her internal drama 
>was on that night! Got jilted, hated her filmed self, who knows what...
>
><L>
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>Lou Judson * Intuitive Audio
>415-883-2689
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>On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Robert Hodge wrote:
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>>A True Story Of Similar Tone...
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>>A film starlet whose name escapes me presently had borrowed a 35 mm
>>nitrate print of one of her films from the studio  to show at one of 
>>her
>>parties and when she was through with it, threw the whole print in the
>>ocean..
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>>That print was the only surviving print left of that title.
>>
>>Amazing.....
>>
>>R.Hodge
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