The moon landing as 600 million people actually experienced it: sweaty palms and all.
Walter Cronkite anchors a CBS news report on the Apollo 11 moon landing, during which astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set food on the lunar surface.
Direction
Raw live broadcast editing, no hindsight polish.
Production
CBS control room chaos is unintentional cinema.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
CBS used commercial models and cereal boxes to simulate spacecraft in their studio coverage when live feeds cut out.
This broadcast united the largest audience in human history at that point—roughly 1 in 5 people alive watched live.
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