In the video you can see some technicians by a presumed launching pad for astronauts. In the footage (a capsule Ingress test?) they're helping two astronauts (who would be William Rutledge and Leona Marietta Snyder, former Bell Laboratories), who wear their space suits, to enter into a presumed spacecraft by a launching pad. The footage seems to be the editing of three different moments, in front of the entrance.
The important point is that on the back of the technician's overalls, you can see what it seems the Rockwell corporation logo. Moreover, one of them has on the back the NASA logo. If you give a look to the Boeing's official website, you can find the following statement: << […] "North American Rockwell designed and built the Saturn V second stage and the command and service modules.>> source: http://www.boeing.com/history/bna/apollo.htm
Moreover, besides to be the manufacturer of spacecrafts, that company (the Rockwell) planned and developed several military aircrafts. You can find more information on Wikipedia: <<[…] North American was responsible for the famous WWII P-51 Mustang fighter and Korean War-era F-86 Sabre, as well as the Apollo spacecraft.>> source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_International
Since the 1973 the name of the corporation changed: the North American Rockwell Corporation became the Rockwell International Corporation. W. Rockwell died in 1978, and since that time the corporation began a series of spin-offs. What remains of the company is the Rockwell Collins (COL) and the Rockwell Automation (ROK). The Rockwell International no longer exists.
2) IN THE LAST RUTLEDGE'S FOOTAGE, THE CAPSUL INSIDE LOOKS LIKE AN APOLLO SPACECRAFT
The last video uploaded on YouTube by William Rutledge (retiredafb) on June 24, 2007, is really amazing: <>.
In the comment he wrote: << CSM 16mm footage through the AGC lens... CSM 16mm footage through the AGC lens, made by Leona Snyder […]. Camera is fixed on the eyepiece of the telescope, less dropouts or moves than the Tv feed from the LM. Frame transfer is not perfect,speed is faster than actual, 4 different speeds were used on the 16 mm camera.>>
Apart from the evocative 16mm footage by Leona M. Snyder in which you can see the details of the presumed abandoned alien spaceship on the far side of the Moon, during the flyover of the Apollo 20 CSM, in my opinion the decisive frames from the historical point of view are the first. At the beginning of the footage, in fact, you can see the Spacecraft controls and instruments. If you compare them, for example, with the 35mm photos available from the Apollo 17 Image Library of the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, you will recognize almost every part of the capsule inside (source: http://www.ehartwell.com/Apollo17/AS17-35mm.htm).
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