Its sad that NASA lost or destroyed their original high resolution tapes from. I think it would gave a resolved a lot of these doubts.
At the time of the first moon landing I was in Boy Scout camp. We were staff and between campers and we took the only one black and white TV on that side of the lake and we all sat around and watched as Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon. We cheered and clapped as he set down.
It was a hell of a trip planned by men with slide rules!
Huh?!?
NASA has hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours of archival quality color 16 mm film available to watch for free, it has been digitized and much of it on YouTube (ask me how I know) and in HD format, basically.