Apollo, do you read?

00 00 38 41                         Hello, Houston; Apollo 11
00 00 38 46                                      I'm going to jettison
            the... cover - -                            
00 00 39 03              Houston.  Apollo 11, read you on
                                            VHF A SIMPLEX.  How do you read? Over.  
00 00 39 09   Roger, 11; this is Houston. We're reading
            you loud and fairly clear. For your 
    information, Tananarive radar
                            shows you in a 103.0 by 103.0 orbit. Over.    

Excerpt of the Official Transcript from NASA's Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.

 

July 31st, 2015, 8:00 P.M.
wasteLAnd Presents...
Scott Worthington's Space Administration

Space Administration sets a visual presentation of Ken Hunt's poem Apollo Spacecraft alongside a composition for bass and electronics by Scott Worthington. The poem uses NASA's voice transcript of the Apollo 11 mission by erasing most of the words and leaving the time stamps. Through the erasure, Hunt creates an ode to the god Apollo and a rumination on space travel. Worthington's music lets the bass float weightlessly above a galactic electronic background, created mostly with a Moog synthesizer (a company which became popular just a few years before the Apollo 11 mission).

Tickets Available Online
$12.00 General Admission
$10.00 VPES Members
The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 W. 24th St.
Los Angeles, California 90007

 

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The Final Presentation of
Mush! To The Movies!

ESKIMO (1933)
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke

This Film is brought to you by McIntyre Ranch
Best Angus Beef in the West

Saturday, August 15th, 2015, 8:00 P.M.
$10 General Admission
Tickets Available Online
Free for VPES & LA Filmforum Members
{with advanced RSVP to event@panoramaonview.org}
 

This Academy Award-winning film, based on the book "Eskimo" by Peter Freuchen (Danish anthropologist, writer, and Hollywood Script Advisor for all things Arctic related) and starring Ray Mala, recounts the tribulations of Alaskan Inuit and non-Native traders who visit an Alaskan village and wreak havoc among the families there. Meant to deal with the effect of Western culture on remote societies, the film displays the early Hollywood symptom of trivializing the very society it attempts to elevate. In Freuchen's later book, "Vagrant Viking," he recounts his Hollywood experiences through stories of being cheated by producers, being forced to hurry from Denmark only to be denied entry to the MGM lot for months, and going mad from idleness as it did not suit him "to be paid for doing nothing." 

This film is not available on DVD. Screening will be attended by members of the Mala family and the poster included above is currently on display in the Panorama's lobby exhibition "Nancy Columbia & The Arctic Beyond."

ESKIMO will be preceded by:

   Northern Lights Over Mount Halde
A Stereoscopic 3D Film by Morten Skallernd
(2013, 7.5 Minutes)
Film brought to you by Peace of Selby Lodge in Alaska
 

Based on real events, persons and places in the history of Norwegian Northern Lights research, much of the film is shot on location at the Halde mountain, where the remains of the world's first permanent Northern Lights Observatory are still to be seen today. Here we can see shapes and figures of the Aurora in a way that is impossible with our normal eye distance.

 

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ENCHANTMENT OF THE GLASS ARMONICA

 

Friday, August 28th & Saturday, August 29th, 2015, at 8 p.m.
$15 General Admission / $12 VPES Members
Tickets Available Online
 

An elaborate illustrated lecture on the on the history of the Glass Armonica, including its historical use in the treatment of nervous disorders by Franz Mesmer and evocation of ghostly specters in Phantasmagoria shows. The lecture, lead by Professor Allison de Fren of Occidental College, will be followed by a short performance on the Glass Armonica by the virtuoso Lynn Drye. In addition, a limited-space workshop will be held on the afternoon of Saturday, August 29th, for participants who are interested in an introductory lesson with the instrument. Guests may register for the workshop online or by emailing the secretary at event@panoramaonview.org.

All Events Presented At The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 W. 24th St., LA, CA 90007
(213) 746-2166 www.panoramaonview.org
event@panoramaonview.org