Chris J Harder
Chris J Harder
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Landing on Airwaves

As Associate Producer

Landing on Airwaves was selected as an Atlantic Selects, a showcase of cinematic short documentary films, curated by The Atlantic. “It was a feeling that went throughout the world, almost like an electric bolt,” one woman remembers of the Apollo

Landing on Airwaves was selected as an Atlantic Selects, a showcase of cinematic short documentary films, curated by The Atlantic.

“It was a feeling that went throughout the world, almost like an electric bolt,” one woman remembers of the Apollo 11 moon landing, in Jonathan Napolitano’s short documentary Landing on Airwaves. The lunar landing, which celebrates its 50th anniversary on July 20, is collectively remembered in the film by a handful of the 530 million people who watched the event live on national television in 1969.

In addition to archival footage from the landing’s original broadcast, Napolitano’s film features rousing imagery of the moon as seen by cinematographers across the globe. Napolitano told me that he effectively crowdsourced these shots from a pool o

In addition to archival footage from the landing’s original broadcast, Napolitano’s film features rousing imagery of the moon as seen by cinematographers across the globe. Napolitano told me that he effectively crowdsourced these shots from a pool of hundreds of filmmakers, none of whom knew what the project was about—only that they were tasked with filming the moon.