Camera to Record Historic Venture

Black and white gelatin silver photograph taken from the Daily Herald Archive entitled 'Camera to Record Historic Venture'. The photograph depicts Stan LeBar, inventor of the lightweight TV camera, practicing the operation of the camera before the mission. July 1969.

Original caption reads: This television camera will be used by astronaut Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin to televise their historic activity on the Moon's surface. Armstrong will deploy the camera as he climbs down the ladder of the Lunar module to step on the moon, It will be later set up on a tripod and continue operating right up to the moment the Lunar module lifts off the moon. Holding camera is Westinghouse Official Stanley LeBar."