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CBS SPECIAL – A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES — ORIG BROADCAST 9/8/70

Filmmaker Albert C. Waller Jr. took a concept never attempted before to CBS News: deploy 43 camera units to capture America shot entirely on the day man first landed on the moon, July 20, 1969. Host Charles Kuralt greets us at first light on the tip of Maine and closes at sunset where America ends, 5400 miles to the west in Hawai’i. In-between we see a cross-section of America that day, intercut with humanity’s first moments on another globe, a quarter of a million miles away. This rare postcard to future generations is shot and seen entirely in real elapsed time, as events occurred here and on the moon. After 53 years it is posted on July 20, without commercial breaks in its entirety.

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