Reuters Fact Check says this video is staged and not real:

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick did not admit to helping the U.S. government and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) stage the Apollo moon landings between 1969 and 1972. A quote from an actor playing the director in a recording of a purposely fabricated interview has been falsely attributed to Kubrick himself. Separate clips of the actor being reminded of his lines show it is not the famed filmmaker.

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Stanley Kubrick: I perpetrated a huge fraud which I am now about to detail.

Interviewer: OK.

Stanley Kubrick: Involving the United States government and NASA,

Interviewer: Alright.

Stanley Kubrick: And I’m sure you’ve heard the rumors.

Interviewer: The Moon Landings?

Stanley Kubrick: That’s right. That the moon landing was fake. The Moon Landings all were fake. And I was the person who filmed it.

Interviewer: You’re serious. OK.

Stanley Kubrick: I’m serious. I’m dead serious.

Interviewer: Because I only had this certain amount of time with you and I’ll talk about whatever you want. You know, this isn’t some type of joke or film within a film thing.

Stanley Kubrick: Nope. Conspiracy theorists were right, on this occasion.

Interviewer: Why?

Stanley Kubrick: I don’t know about Paul McCartney’s death, but they were right about it.

Interviewer: OK. Why in God’s name? I don’t know what to ask you first. Why the Hell? If you’re telling the truth, why would you do it? Why are you telling me? I mean, what the?

Stanley Kubrick: Don’t you think it’s important for people to know the truth?

Interviewer: Yeah, I guess.

Stanley Kubrick: A massive fraud, unparalleled fraud perpetrated against them. They should know.

Interviewer: OK.

Stanley Kubrick: I mean, they’re already suspicious of the government. They may as well have their suspicions confirmed.

Interviewer: OK.

Stanley Kubrick: Justified.

Interviewer: And this, why now? I mean, we’re almost at the 30-year anniversary. What took so long? Why, if this is true?

Stanley Kubrick: I won’t go into that. It has to do with personal evolution and influences. I won’t go into that.

Interviewer: Is that why you look a little haggard right now? Because you look a little worn. No offense.

Stanley Kubrick: Well, also, yeah, because I haven’t been taking care of myself too well. I’ve been drinking a lot.

Interviewer: Is that because of the stress of this?

Stanley Kubrick: Of course. Stress, guilt, just conflict of all kinds.

Interviewer: Wow. I mean, so you feel bad about this, clearly. I mean, this is not –

Stanley Kubrick: I do feel bad about it. I also feel proud of it. It’s a terrible conflict.

Interviewer: Because you’ve pulled off one of the greatest hoaxes, ever because of your –

Stanley Kubrick: And because I made a film – if you want to call it a film – which I consider to be my masterpiece.

Interviewer: And you can’t take credit or even talk about it as a –

Stanley Kubrick: No, I’m hereby

Interviewer: Well, you are now.

Stanley Kubrick: I’m hereby taking credit for it.

Interviewer: Right. But you can’t actually go out. You’re doing– When people see this, you’ll be dead.

Stanley Kubrick: We can’t show this for 15 years.

Interviewer: Right. For 15, yeah. So you can’t talk to Roger Ebert about it. Does that frustrate you?

Stanley Kubrick: I have to pay the consequences for the decision that I made, many years ago to go along with this.

Interviewer: Like a deal with the devil?

Stanley Kubrick: It’s Faustian, to be sure.

Interviewer: Because – And is that why you got such power in Hollywood? I mean, I would explain that.

Stanley Kubrick: Why I have the freedom I have, that was part of it, yes.

Interviewer: So they said, “Do this Moon thing and we’ll give you –

Stanley Kubrick: When I made Spartacus, I didn’t have this kind of freedom. Right. But I have it now.

Interviewer: So what came first, the genius or the fraud?

Stanley Kubrick: What is NASA doing?

Interviewer: What came first, the genius or the fraud? I mean, did the fraud enable the genius or the genius released the fraud?

Stanley Kubrick: Well, I think the genius came first. Right. But some frauds are hard to bypass, especially if you have an ego and you’re an artist and you’re presented with a challenge, the likes of which you’ve never seen and will probably never see again.

You don’t even think of the morality of it. You’re just completely swept away by the flattery of it and the juices inside you, which make you want to do it as the artist you are, innately. You don’t think of anything else.

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  • In July of 1969 when the public gathered around their television to watch man land on the moon It was the first time my family let watch television.
    I was born April 20 1966 ,
    I was told by parents and siblings I can watch it , but as the time approached to view it , parents and siblings said : Your too young to watch the whole thing, television is bad for young kids they told me.
    I was told I can watch for 30 SECONDS and that’s it.
    Me being a young kid I agreed to the time limit cause I had a hunch that if my time is short take a look at the FULL Picture , as soon as man (” Armstrong touched his foot to the moon I yelled FAKE “)
    Well yelling fake pissed my family of and my 30 seconds time limit was reduced by a few seconds to shut me up about it being fake.
    The Van Allen Belt is much too hot for mankind to build a spaceship / rocket to go through, this was sorta admitted by NASA in the 1980s when NASA put thick ceramic plates all over the outside of a rocket that was going to be put into space , except NASA forgot that they made the ceramic tiles only six inches thick, some math and science folks laughed at NASA saying even if your ceramic tiles were six feet thick they wouldn’t protect the rocket from the high heat of the van Allen belt…

  • Forget about Kubrick. NASA claims to have used 60mm F/5.6 lens for outside shots and 80mm F/2.8 for shots from inside of module.

    BS.

    F stop is a measurement unit of brightness of a lens. The lower the number the brighter lens is. This allows for faster shutter speed. Aperture can be adjusted downward (higher digits = darker) from native minimum. Each stop lowers light entrance by half! Thus, increases time of exposure.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-number

    Konica had commercially available 60mm F/1.2 as early as 1956:
    https://lens-db.com/konishiroku-hexanon-60mm-f12-lsm-1956/

    Somehow, NASA managed to send very dark lens and got crisp sharp pics, while the camera was attached to chest and shutter button was operated through thick glove (which glove itself was sealed with velcro – as displayed in DC museum!). None of the pics are disoriented due to Armstrong’s guessing alignment of his chest attached camera.

    Lens with starting F/5.6 in dim lighting as on moon could only have been operated on a tripod and with remote wire like this one:
    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1425606-REG/vello_tsr_40_threaded_shutter_release_cable.html

    Exposure time would be, I guess, 2-4 seconds for sharp pics. In normal earthly conditions, on an overcast day, with lens F/5.6 you have to use 1/500 of a second to avoid blur, and that would require highly skilled pro to manage off chest and with finger release (no velcro glove).

    Also, NASA says their lens has 47 degree angle of view horizontally.
    https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/Biogon5.6_60mm_ZEISS.pdf

    Pics shown us clearly were made with lens of much wider angle of view. Perhaps 20-24mm lens.
    https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tutorials/photography-cheat-sheet-what-is-field-of-view-fov

    Did I mention dust effect on lens yet?

  • No one is getting off the planet! Not eat your gruel and get back to work, or the commies will shoot you in the head!!

    All lies, all the time. The history of the U.S., Inc.

    People should be mad but it must be the fluoride in the drinking water, cause most i see are generally, BRAIN DEAD. You can sit at a 4-way stop and easily see who the brain dead people are….they can’t make logical decisions anymore. i welcome the reset!!!!

  • “*I* didn’t even think of the morality of it. *I* was just completely swept away by the flattery of it and the juices inside me, which made me want to do it as the artist *I* was, innately. *I* didn’t think of anyone else.”

    FIFStanley.

 

 

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