Would Hollywood have been able to fake the moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969?

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So could Hollywood, with a 100 million dollar budget, have had the ability to produce the film of the Apollo 11 moon landing that was seen on TV in 1969 without it being debunked with our current technology?

(I do not think the landing was faked at all - just wondering if it were faked really well would we see it now with digital formats and investigation.)



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Hmm, more comments on question category than answers. Sure, I can see it in skeptics as a means of having others find it and learn from it, but some key technical answers will come more from video production folk.

Anyway, I'm more interested in the answers. Kubrick's 2001 came out in 1968, and was considered hyper-realistic in its day. Surely that fueled some of the conspiracy theorists. But damning technical points like Tetsujin's above are lost on anyone who WANTS a fake to have been possible.

It's tempting to believe the physics of the bound-time and dust fall rate (to both match Moon gravity) would have been very hard to get right:

In contrast, what Kurbick did in 2001 was large and pretty, and that sort of thing has a disproportional emotional sway on our sense of what's real.

If you really want the debunk, see Snopes article on it here: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/false-stanley-kubrick-faked-moon-landings/. The most compelling part is an outtake from a purported admission by "Kubrick" (an actor portraying him), where the director of the "interview" coaches him, saying:

“You don’t say he said anything. You say what he says. Tom, I’m giving you directions. You don’t have to imitate him (Richard Nixon). You’re not reporting it. You’re repeating it … We’re doing exposition here. That’s how we’re going to sneak it in.”




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Using cinematic techniques the most appropriate depiction of a lunar landing was in 2001: A Space Odyssey. However physics in space cannot be replicated, even putting the astronauts on strings to simulate lunar gravity would be impossible to recreate it accurately. The conspiracy theories are impossible because of their size and complexity. Hundreds of thousands of people–including astronauts, scientists, engineers, technicians, and skilled laborers–would have had to keep the secret; Hollywood has leaked footage and pics all the time. The Moon is a near perfect vacuum; replicating a vacuum on a stage would require an enormous vacuum chamber, lets not forget the largest vacuum chamber at the time was only 20 feet by 47.

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