From the Earth to the Moon

[KC-Technerd]

Originally Posted by trevanian

The ideal answer was the TNG solution -- you keep the great original 35mm vfx elements, and recomp them with new backgrounds as needed.

My impression is that there may not be original 35mm vfx elements for FTETTM, at least in many cases. It became evident to me watching the Signature Edition (16x9 DVD) that many of the VFX shots have some video glitches, that were present but not quite so obvious on the original 4x3 version. These look like horizontally displaced video scan lines. One of these remains on the Blu-ray in the "1968" episode during the TLI scene that concludes with the view of the moon through the CM hatch window, above Lovell's head. My impression, which could be wrong, is that these vfx were made directly to 480i (or some SD resolution) video and not captured on film. (At least with not all of the elements captured on film. In the case with the TLI scene I mentioned, it is obviously a mix of VFX with a live action shot, and the live action was probably captured on film.)