Excellent point about the catch where 'Armstrong' says his lines as soon as he jumps off ladder -- clear proof it's not only a fraud, but a STUPID fraud.

Here's what I wrote for Wall Street Journal in 1994:

Apollo-11 TV Documentary Misrepresentations

James Oberg // submitted manuscript // July 31, 1994
Published in Aug 8, 1994, Wall Street Journal


The recent blizzard of Apollo-11 anniversary programs was a fine tribute to that historical achievement of the American space program. The events of a quarter century ago came back to life in the dramatic portrayal seen on millions of television screens. But at the same time, many of the programs also displayed the sloppy errors, distortions and revisionist dramatizations which have come to characterize much of television journalism.

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The serious distortions of space history which characterized many -- but by no means all -- of the anniversary documentaries went beyond this allowable flexibility, and include outright historical falsifications such as the following:

To compress events, Neil Armstrong's comments about making "One small step" have often been matched with video of him dropping down from the Lunar Module ladder. Actually, he landed on one of the vehicle's footpads, made several comments, jumped back up on the ladder to make sure he could, jumped down a second time, discussed his impressions of his surroundings, and only after that did he make the "small step" onto the moondust. So the rearranged video completely misrepresents what he meant by "one small step". ....