Hey all,
In Henry Wilhelm's, monumental book, "The Permanence and Care of Color
Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives,
Slides, and Motion Pictures", which now is available on-line, see:
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/book_toc.html, it explains that the
films the astronauts shot during the mission were part of a major film
preservation project. Nasa not only made color separations of the films
but also multiple copies. The originals were stored at NASA headquarters
in Houston, Texas, a second copy was stored in a NASA facility in
Houston, and a third copy was stored in White Sands, New Mexico.
The question that really needs to be asked is: Did these original films
contain the same material that was transmitted to the receiving
stations?