uruk wrote:
"Why wasn't a shock wave felt?"
"Who was the cameraman?"
"Did the launch pad move?"

I'm not sure what you're getting at, but are you implying this was staged??

I'm no physicist, but I'd hazard a guess that at 1/6th the force of earth's gravity, it doesn't take as much "shock" to get the module off it's launch pad as we would expect.

Also, I'd welcome confirmation of this, but as I stated in the comments, I believe the camera was on a timer and retrieved on a subsequent mission.

1. The camera was considerably farther away than 30m. The dust from the exhaust can clearly be seen on the surface.

2. The camera was remotely controlled by an operator in Mission Control, and had to be timed to take into account the time it takes for a signal to get from earth to the moon.

3. The camera was too far away and wasn't of a high enough resolution to pick up any movement. And any downforce would be spread out over the 4 landing pads so that would spread out the force.

pretty incredible stuff. I think I read somewhere that the camera had to be programmed to zoom out and pan up in order to follow the module, and was done with a timer. Looks like they calculated it exactly right. Did they have to retrieve the film on the next mission? These quality resolution images couldn't be transmitted through space back then, could they?