Summary Of Shooting Stanley Kubrick By T. Patrick Murray

On July 16th, 1969 world renowned astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin began their eight day voyage to the moon that would eventually become one of mankind’s greatest achievements. However, this tremendous milestone in history has raised ever growing doubt among conspiracy theorists claiming that the live broadcast provided by NASA showing Apollo 11’s lunar module landing on the moon was in fact faked. The conspiracy theory states that the landing actually occurred in an undisclosed Hollywood studio set by the United States, with the help of famed director Stanley Kubrick, in an attempt to beat the Soviets in the space race. Disproving the belief that the moon landing was faked by the government can be done by examining the physical evidence
Many of these theorists do not take time to research what source the footage came from or analyze the elements occurring in the footage, while others blatantly believe any forms of “proof” they come across simply because it supports their position in an argument. Theorists support their claim that the Hollywood director, Stanley Kubrick, orchestrated the moon landings for the United States government by referencing video clips that had been in circulation on the web since August, 2015. These clips depicted what seemed to be Kubrick’s confession to faking the moon landing, these video clips actually come from the film, “Shooting Stanley Kubrick” by T. Patrick Murray. While the short clips have a serious tone that may be convincing to those simply browsing the internet, these clips are all fictional representations of what Kubrick’s confession could have looked like. When visiting the film’s official website it clearly states, “In May 1999 an unknown filmmaker secured an interview with the reclusive genius Stanley Kubrick” (Shooting Stanley Kubrick, 2015) this can be disproven due to the fact that Kubrick had died two months prior. When individuals come across videos with the word “confession” in the title they are quick to jump to the conclusion that it is real because their cognitive bias convinces them that confessing correlates with truth. Another piece of evidence is video footage
One highly criticised image captured was a picture of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planting the United State’s flag into the moon’s surface and what appeared to be ripples moving through the flag as if there was wind. Many theorists claim that since the vacuum of space does not allow an atmosphere to form on the moon there cannot be a gentle breeze present, therefore the picture is proof the moon landing happened on Earth. NASA counters this belief by stating this effect was caused due to different factors such as the horizontal cross bar the flag was rigged to and the vibrations made from the two astronauts pushing the flag into the ground. Theorists also argue that because there are no stars clearly visible in any of the pictures, the landing had to have been faked because the common belief on Earth is that without an atmosphere the sky should be filed with them; NASA states this phenomena occurs because the sunlight that hits the pale surface of the moon is very bright and it drowns out the light emitted from the stars, this also can be seen on Earth in cities where the numerous lights reflect off the streets making the stars above almost non existent. Pictures taken of the lunar module’s landing site raise suspicion among skeptics because they believe, if we did land on the moon, the exhaust released by the spacecraft should have created