re: UNCLE WALTER Cronkite of course!!!!!
I have a few seconds of Aldrin bouncing around on 8mm. I didn’t run it long just to save film. By today’s standards the price of film was astronomical. Just 50 ft was about $5. That would run for maybe 3 minutes. When you compare it to 1 hrs worth of digital videotape today at, $8 or so. The quality of the picture is far better to, and with sound to boot.
In the 50s my mother had a 16 mm movie camera, and it cost $7 for 25 ft of film, which couldn't have lasted more that a couple of minutes.