So a fun fact about Apollo communications. The provider was initially not on contract to provide video, just audio and they would develop the film when they returned. The engineers looked into it, and went back to NASA and said, you know, we could also do video. NASA's response was OK, but if it causes a schedule slip, it gets axed. It didn't.
Source: I talked to some old-timers who worked on it when I wasn't an old-timer.
