What the Apollo 11 camera showed after Houston cut the line | The Dissinger Files, Tape 03
Apollo 11, July 1969: TV frames from after Houston cut the broadcast, a structure on the lunar horizon and a disc over two astronauts.
Plus the Roswell crash of 1947 as the classified file tells it. A found-footage analog horror audio drama, recorded April 1974.
Saturday, 13 April 1974. Nine minutes to eleven at night.
A warning before anything goes on the wall: the content of this tape is not comfortable, and some of it does not leave you once you have understood it. He says the listener may stop the machine now, and nobody will know.
File B-002. Class B, which is persons. Contact, 21 July 1969. Disposition: blank. Four years and nine months, and nobody above him has been willing to write a word on that line.
On the first tape he read a transcript and said he had a better source. This is the better source. The surface television camera kept running after the public broadcast was cut, and his program had prints struck from that tape, frame by frame, from the part nobody was allowed to see. He puts them on the wall, one at a time, and takes his time with each: the horizon on a bearing of three-four-zero, and the thing that made an astronaut use the word "structure" on the secure channel; the camera tilted up forty minutes later at a perfect black circle that the stars stop at; the commander's own words from the debrief on how it left.
He tells you what he thinks they are. He is entitled, he says, to one opinion per file.
INDEX (Foundation cataloguing, for reference)
00:00 Recorder on
00:56 A word to whoever is watching
01:47 File B-002: Contact, 21 July 1969
03:31 Television frame one: the horizon
07:00 Television frame two: the camera tilted up
08:08 After Houston cut the line
11:51 What the files say about them
13:46 A short digression: 1947
20:17 What the files say they are
23:06 The arrangement
25:48 Now, the men
29:56 One last thing
ARCHIVE NOTE — The Eastham Foundation. Tape 03 is the longest of the April recordings and the only one on which Dissinger can be heard handling a cigarette he does not light. The television frames he describes are not in the Foundation's possession. The debrief page is.
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Tape 03 of 51. Season 1: The Basement Tapes.
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