No, the pictures were not very good, especially when viewed on a grainy TV with poor reception in the forests of northern Wisconsin.
It was like everyone's father taking movies in the 1960s! Adjust this, adjust that, get out of the light. Different times before auto adjust.
“It was like everyone’s father taking movies in the 1960s! Adjust this, adjust that, get out of the light. Different times before auto adjust.”
My uncle. Color film was expensive to buy and process. And apparently not very fast, I remember he had this rack of maybe 4 or 6 Big Ass Lights, that he carried around with the movie camera indoors, the old Christmas movies just show all of us kids squinting and holding our hands over our eyes. LOL, it would blind us temporarily I distinctly remember that. Everybody hated that thing.
Near as I can find, the Apollo 8 Christmas Eve broadcast was about 8:30 to 9 PM central standard time, just about the time our families would be at gramps place to open some presents. I’m pretty sure I vaguely recall we watched that, along with everybody else. I’ll have to ask my brother sometime, he would remember.