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Even if the orbiters were still orbiting, the film would have degraded due to radiation, I think.

It's really hard to orbit the moon anyway, it's not very spherical compared with the earth.

Pointers for those interested - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_(astronomy)... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_orbit#Lunar_frozen_orbi... . The "not very spherical" refers to the shape of the gravitational field, and not simply the physical shape of the Moon.