Australian Prime Minister
John Gorton
at Honeysuckle Creek
Monday 21st July 1969 (Australian time)
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Australian Prime Minister John Gorton is taken on a tour of the Honeysuckle Creek Operations Building by Station Director Tom Reid. It is between 8:30 and 9:00am Eastern Australian Standard Time. The Eagle landed just over 2 hours before the tour began and the Moon would rise just over two hours after the Prime Minister left the Station. It is around 4 hours before the First Step and there is plenty of activity as the next Station Readiness Test looms. This unedited silent news film runs for 4 minutes. It was provided by Geoff Crane Producer / Director with ABC-TV in Canberra. With grateful thanks to ABC-TVs Stateline (ACT edition) for their permission to make this clip available. The
clip is a 14MB
MP4 file. (If you have trouble playing it, you may care to use either Quicktime or VLC.) |
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See labelled still frames from the footage here. |
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See also the Prime Ministers Statement to the Press made after his tour outside the Operations Building. |