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<em>In honour of mankind's first moonwalk 40 years ago I'm reposting this wonderful footage. ..</em>

<em><span style="font-style: normal;">This film shows the remains of ancient alien structures on our Moon, filmed by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on mankind’s first visit there in 1969. Perhaps this is why <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.washingtonpost.com');" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013002065.html" target="_blank">NASA ‘lost’ the original footage</a> from this trip.</span></em>

Whatever it actually shows, the film is quite beautiful, like a German expressionist cross between HP Lovecraft’s <em>At the Mountains of Madness</em> and HG Wells’ <em>First Men in the Moon</em>. In the above shot, the overwhelmed astronaut just hangs there aghast at the wonders that surround him.

To my mind the final shots are a little disappointing – they look a little too much like a front room window in an adobe-style New Mexico home! – but this is great stuff. Allegedly there are ten more minutes of it out there… let’s see the rest.

<a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/www.youtube.com');" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWkGTJEK0Mc" target="_blank">Full film over at Youtube</a>