In any case, given that the film was in a metal box, the radiation wouldn't have harmed the film anyway.
As a matter of fact, the original specifications for the still cameras were to have them survive 600 rads (roughly equivalent to sunbathing on a nuclear test range). It doesn't say whether the latent image on the film was expected to survive under those conditions -- and I doubt it would -- but that's the sort of thing NASA was thinking about.
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