A question about the 1969 moon landing?

I believe it was attached to the lunar lander.

They had plenty of cameras set up in that studio probably...

used to think of this question when i was a kid thought they got somebody to get out first. then i realised the luner lander has 4 stabalisers that you could attache a camera 2

The camera was on the MESA (Modular Equipment Storage Assembly) and Armstrong deployed it while he was on the ladder. And just to be nitpicky, there were actually two Moon landings in 1969; Apollo 11 was in July and Apollo 12 was in November.

There was a TV camera in a box mounted on the leg of the LM. "...At 02:39 UTC on Monday July 21 (10:39pm EDT, Sunday July 20), 1969, Armstrong opened the hatch, and at 02:51 UTC began his descent to the Moon's surface. The Remote Control Unit controls on his chest kept him from seeing his feet. Climbing down the nine-rung ladder, Armstrong pulled a D-ring to deploy the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) folded against Eagle's side and activate the TV camera, and at 02:56 UTC (10:56pm EDT) he set his left foot on the surface.[21] The first landing used slow-scan television incompatible with commercial TV, so it was displayed on a special monitor and a conventional TV camera viewed this monitor, significantly reducing the quality of the picture.[22] The signal was received at Goldstone in the USA but with better fidelity by Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia. Minutes later the feed was switched to the more sensitive Parkes radio telescope in Australia. Despite some technical and weather difficulties, ghostly black and white images of the first lunar EVA were received and broadcast to at least 600 million people on Earth.[23] Although copies of this video in broadcast format were saved and are widely available, recordings of the original slow scan source transmission from the moon were accidentally destroyed during routine magnetic tape re-use at NASA. Archived copies of the footage were eventually located in Perth, Australia, which was one of the sites that originally received the Moon broadcast. After describing the surface dust ("fine and almost like a powder"),[21] Armstrong stepped off Eagle's footpad and into history as the first human to set foot on another world. It was then that he uttered his famous line "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind"[24][25][26][27][28] six and a half hours after landing.[1] Aldrin joined him, describing the view as "Magnificent desolation."[29]..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

They had cameras on the landing craft!

I agree, the shots as they were framed could not have come from a camera attached to the lunar lander they were from much further away. I watched the "landing" live in 1969 and I was immediately puzzled by the pictures. Did you know that those first pictures were not broadcast direct to the world but were displayed on a monitor at Houston with a network camera filming the picture on the monitor that is why they were so ghosty and grainy. Nearly all the other film was broadcast direct - strange eh? Neil Armstrong a very religious man by reputation has refused the opportunity to swear on the bible that he has walked on the moon - even stranger

I love that movie Capricorn One, have you seen it?