Moonblack
By: direction, Aldo Tambellini
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Astronauts; Manned space flight; Space vehicles; Rockets (Aeronautics); Sounds; Flight control; Interplanetary voyages
Work titles: Moonblack (Motion picture: 1969) 16 mm
Description: The experimental filmmaker Aldo Tambellini used techniques such as painting directly on film and re-photographing black and white video images to create this abstract trip to the moon. The film's sound track employs radio conversations recorded between American astronauts and their flight control center in Houston, Texas and the impression of space flight is heightened by the continuous roar of the rocket engine in the background as the spacecraft is propelled into the cosmos.
Notes: Harvard Film Archive projection print in poor condition, large scratch in the center of the image, HFA Item no. 22003; from The Aldo Tambellini Collection.

Running time on release 14 minutes, Cf. Grove Press Film Catalogue, January 20th, 2011.

Direction and camera, Aldo Tambellini.