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SPACE COVERAGE PHOTOGRAPHS
FINDING AID
Compiled by A.R. Hogan
February-May 2003
ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF PHOTOS:
The National Air and Space Museum Archives in Washington, DC
The Paul Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility in Suitland, MD,
These include the Joel Banow Collection. He was a longtime director at CBS News, including of space coverage during the 1960s and 1970s. His donated collection contains more than 100 space coverage photos, including several in color. Many of the photos were taken in July 1969--both off-the-air and in-studios and control rooms--during CBS News live television coverage of "Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11." Walter Cronkite, Wally Schirra, Robert J. Wussler, Arthur C. Clarke, Joel Banow, and many other people can be seen at work in those photos. Some photos illustrate clearly how CBS News extensively used animations and simulations to enliven its space coverage. Other photo subjects include the CBS control room during the Early Bird communications satellite's debut; the Charles Kuralt-George E. Herman CBS News Special Report "Two Weeks on the Moon" aired on Sunday 19 June 1966; split-screen "quad" shots, including from the Apollo 14 launch on Sunday 31 January 1971; main-title-sequences, including from the Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 flights in 1971; the construction/installation of lunar landscape models; the testing of a track system to operate models of the Command-Service Module and Lunar Module; and TV-screen images, including of correspondent Nelson Benton of CBS News, Lunar Model expert Scott MacLeod of LEM-manufacturer Grumman, anchor/correspondent David Schoumacher of CBS News, Mission Control in Houston, etc. In addition, animation storyboards--some in color--by former Disney animator Richard Earle Spies and his associates, done under contract to CBS News in the late 1960s and the 1970s, show development of various main-title sequences and rocket-firing sequences that could not be televised live nor depicted by simulations, including ones related to Luna 16, Apollo 8, Apollo 11, Apollo 15, and Apollo 17. Another animation storyboard depicts sequences prepared for CBS News special live coverage of the total solar eclipse that was visible from a path across Mexico and the U.S. East Coast on Saturday 7 March 1970, a broadcast anchored by Charles Kuralt.
http://www.nasm.edu/nasm/arch/archdiv.htm
http://www.nasm.edu/nasm/garber/Garber.html
The Charles Kuralt Papers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Two space-coverage-related photographs are included. In one photo, he is standing indoors with two other people in Los Angeles by a full-scale model of a Surveyor spacecraft on the specially built moonscape set of "Two Weeks on the Moon," a one-hour CBS News Special Report broadcast on Sunday 19 June 1966 (in which George E. Herman also played a major role). In the other photo, he is posed with Dan Rather in front of a large Earth's Moon backdrop to promote the CBS News Special "The Moon Above, The Earth Below," a two-hour broadcast on Thursday 13 July 1989 that commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon-landing mission. Both photos appear to be from CBS News.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/htm/04882.html
The Frank Reynolds Papers at Georgetown University in Washington, DC
These contain several photos of him in the Moscow area covering the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project of July 1975 for ABC News.
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl64.htm
The Walter Cronkite Papers at the University of Texas at Austin
These contain some space coverage-related photos. Specific advance written permission for access to these restricted papers must be obtained in from Mr. Cronkite's office in New York City.
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/collectioncomponents/media.html
The NASA Headquarters History Office in Washington, DC
This place has several dozen relevant photos. For journalists and authors, the NASA Headquarters photo office in DC also has some relevant photos of launch press site activity, news conferences with astronauts, etc.
http://history.nasa.gov/
For further information, contact the Library of American Broadcasting.
labcast@umd.edu
Broadcast Pioneers Library of American Broadcasting
University of Maryland, College Park
