Stanley Kubrick filmed the moon landing. A film about the landing of American astronauts on the moon was filmed on earth
Legendary director Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey", "A Clockwork Orange", "Shine", "With wide eyes closed"), a few days before his death, admitted that The US government and NASA paid him a large amount of money to film the landing of US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the moon.In fact, historical footage was allegedly filmed by him in an ordinary studio on Earth.
In the photo: Stanley Kubrick during the work on the film "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Such a sensational statement was made byAmerican Patrick Murray, posting a video interview purporting to be Stanley Kubrick, made 15 years ago.
As explained on the site, the filmmaker's interview only appeared now, since Murray had to sign an 80-page non-disclosure agreement for 15 years from the date of the death of Kubrick, who, we recall, died on March 17, 1999.
I committed a huge fraud on the American public. With the participation of the United States government and NASA. The moon landing was faked, all the landings were fake and I was the person who filmed it."
confesses in the video a man who looks like Stanley Kubrick.
"What are you saying? Are you serious?" Murray laughs.
"Yes, it's a fake," the American director repeats again.
According to Kubrick, the moon landing was only a fantasy of President Nixon, who really wanted to make it a reality. The US government offered the director a large sum of money for filming a plausible video document, and he allegedly agreed to make a "movie".
However, while there is no official evidence that this interview is really real. Perhaps the footage is just an actor who is very similar to a famous director.
Recall that on July 20, 1969, the whole world saw the footage that has already become historical, in which the astronaut of the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong, makes " one small step for a man, but a giant leap for all mankind."
It is worth noting that in 1971 Kubrick moved from the US to the UK. AT last years In his life, the director repeatedly stated that he would be killed by American intelligence services. In 1999 he died official version- from a heart attack, but many experts believe that the director was killed.
The wife of director Christian Kubrick after her husband's death also claimed that the moon landing was faked in order to "save the honor and dignity of the United States."
Meanwhile, Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk, in an interview with TV channel Zvezda denied rumors that American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin did not land on the moon.
Specialists, including myself, and our lunar group watched one-to-one online how it happened. And Bormann's flight with a flyby in Moscow, and landing, and "Apollo 13" too, ”-
quotes TV channel Leonov.
In a comment to the site, the pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, explained that some of the footage about the flight of Armstrong and Aldrin to the moon was indeed filmed in the studio. But this was done only so that the viewer could see "the development of what is happening from beginning to end." The actual shooting begins after Armstrong sets up a highly directional antenna for broadcasting to Earth.
Who will film the opening of the hatch from the side when there is no one on the moon? -
Leonov explained why additional footage of the landing was needed.
The video of the landing of American astronauts on the Earth’s satellite has been controversial for more than a decade. Rumors about the rigging of the flight to the Moon spread after the widow of American director Stanley Kubrick told reporters about her husband's participation in the filming of the film about the Apollo 11 mission.
Journalists came to Kubrick's wife, and she said: yes, he worked hard when they created the film "Landing on the Moon." These are her words verbatim. And this (rumors about the falsification of the flight to the moon - ed. note) is already speculation. And how the flag dangled, but there was no wind. And the flag was reinforced and twisted. When they put it in the ground, they took off the cover - the reinforced tape untwisted, and it seemed as if it was dangling in the wind, ”
explained the legendary Soviet cosmonaut.
In 2009, Alexei Leonov already spoke out about the rumors that the Americans were not on the moon in 1969. In an interview with RIA Novosti, Leonov stressed that only “absolutely ignorant people” can believe in such a thing.
Only absolutely ignorant people can seriously believe that the Americans were not on the moon. And, unfortunately, this whole ridiculous epic about shots allegedly fabricated in Hollywood began precisely with the Americans themselves, ”
noted then Alexei Leonov.
Science fiction writers, and after them film directors, dreamed of the Moon long before a man actually went into space.
1. Journey to the moon
Le Voyage dans la Lune
- France, 1902
- Fantasy, comedy.
- Duration: 14 minutes.
- IMDb: 8.2.
3. Space flight
- USSR, 1935.
- Fiction.
- Duration: 70 minutes.
- IMDb: 7.1.
Events take place in 1946 (that is, in the future at the time of the release of the picture). The first experiments in the conquest of space end in failure: the rabbit dies, and the cat disappears. But the academician and his young companions follow them on the Joseph Stalin rocket. They successfully get to the moon and even rescue a cat that was missing there.
When creating the film, the authors were consulted by the founder of theoretical cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. And despite the fact that real flights were at that time in the distant future, the filmmakers managed to plausibly show the launch of the rocket, overload and.
4. Destination - Moon
Destination-Moon
- USA, 1950.
- Drama, fantasy.
- Duration: 180 minutes.
- IMDb: 6.4.
The film is based on the novel Rocketship Galileo by Robert Heinlein. From the original, only common features. Almost the entire plot is devoted to the preparation of the first expedition to the moon and the flight itself. One of the first astronauts even has to go into outer space due to an engine failure.
It is curious that in 1969 Robert Heinlein, together with another famous writer commented in live TV real landing on the moon.
5 Catwomen Of The Moon
Cat Women of the Moon
- USA, 1953.
- Fantasy, adventure.
- Duration: 64 minutes.
- IMDb: 3.7.
On the dark side of the moon, astronauts find a cave where the air is breathable. They discover there a city inhabited by beautiful and friendly girls. But in fact, the natives do not have the most pleasant plans for the aliens.
Every year the number of films about visiting the moon grew, and such vulgar creations were inevitable even then. All the girls in the film are wearing tight tights (which is probably why they are called cats), and the astronauts treat them like bar patrons.
In 1958, a remake of this film, Rocket to the Moon, appeared. And in 1961, the picture “Naked on the Moon” was released, where, as the name implies, the tights were also abandoned.
6. From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon
- USA, 1958.
- Duration: 101 minutes.
- IMDb: 5.1.
A rare case when the action in such a film takes place not in the future, but in the past. In the film adaptation of Jules Verne's novel, three men and one girl are sent to the moon, who, of course, sneaked onto the ship.
7. The first people on the moon
First Men in the Moon
- UK, 1964
- Adventure, fantasy.
- Duration: 103 minutes.
- IMDb: 6.7.
Another screencap classical work. This time, the film was based on the novel of the same name. An international UN expedition arrives on the moon and discovers that the British have been there much earlier. The pioneer is in a nursing home and talks about the first flight and contacts with the lunar inhabitants.
Interestingly, the unexpected ending of this film is taken from another book by Wells - The War of the Worlds. In 2010, another adaptation of the same work was released. The script for it was written by one of the authors of "Sherlock" Mark Gattis.
8. For the sake of all mankind
For All Mankind
- USA, 1989
- Documentary.
- Duration: 80 minutes.
- IMDb: 8.2.
10 First on the Moon
- Russia, 2005
- pseudo-documentary.
- Duration: 75 minutes.
- IMDb: 7.0.
A group of enthusiasts is trying to understand the events of the distant past. It turns out that back in the 1930s, an expedition to the moon was sent to the USSR, but communication with the ship was lost, and then a strange meteorite fell to Earth. And all this was filmed by hidden cameras of intelligence agents.
11. Journey to the Moon 3D
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
- USA, 2005
- Documentary, short film.
- Duration: 40 minutes.
- IMDb: 7.0.
The incredibly beautiful film includes both documentary footage from NASA and computer graphics. And behind the scenes (who once played in Apollo 13) talks about the conquest of space and the majestic silence of the moon.
12. Moon 2112
- UK, 2009
- Fantasy, drama, dystopia.
- Duration: 97 minutes.
- IMDb: 7.9.
Sam has been working on the Moon for three years at a rare gas station. He can only communicate with a talking robot, and there is not a soul around. His contract is already coming to an end. But then Sam meets his replacement - himself.
The first film by Duncan Jones (David Bowie's son) was made with minimal investment. Even the model of the lunar rover was simply dragged on a rope.
13. Apollo 18
Apollo 18
- USA, Canada, 2011.
- Mock documentary, science fiction, .
- Duration: 86 minutes.
- IMDb: 5.2.
According to official information, the lunar program ended on Apollo 17. However, conspiracy theorists believe that there were other flights, but all data about them are classified. Pseudo documentary talks about the next visit to the moon, where the team encountered a strange infestation.
14. Lunar scam
Moonwalkers
- France, 2015
- Comedy.
- Duration: 96 minutes.
- IMDb: 6.1.
And another plot based on conspiracy theory. In the late 1960s, an FBI agent travels to London to help film the moon landing. However, instead of Kubrick, he comes across a petty crook and a weed lover who shoots documentary footage on the premises of a porn studio.
A new controversy is emerging around one of the key episodes of the US space program. American television showed a documentary in which it was first acknowledged that footage of the astronauts landing on the moon was filmed on Earth, commissioned by the government.
The other day, the widow of director Stanley Kubrick said that her husband on Earth filmed the landing of astronauts on the moon and President Nixon personally gave him instructions. Christy Kubrick, however, immediately clarified that we are talking not about falsifying the entire expedition, but only about preparing backup film shots in case they fail to get images from the moon. After all, in many countries there was a live broadcast. Only the USSR and China did not show someone else's triumph.
Alexei Leonov, cosmonaut: "I know this director well. I know how films were made - but she is far from all this and confused."
According to Alexei Leonov, already after the landing, Kubrick helped make a documentary about flights to the moon, and some episodes were really repeated in Hollywood. But for those who are convinced that there are no traces of a man on the moon, Christie Kubrick's revelations are yet another proof of their correctness. For 35 years, they have accumulated a lot of evidence:
The flag in full vacuum ripples, as if in the wind.
There are no stars in any of the photos.
Lunar gravity is 6 times weaker than Earth's, and astronauts could jump higher.
The shadows diverge in different directions, although they should lie in parallel.
And on one of the stones they examined the letter "C", they say they are all marked.
But each discrepancy has a completely convincing explanation. Thick fishing lines were sewn into the cloth, which, straightening out, waved the flag. The stars are not visible because the camera is tuned only to the brightest objects. The movements of the astronauts were constrained by tight spacesuits. And shadows out of sync are easily explained by the effect of perspective. And is it reasonable to mark stones for decorations in the Latin alphabet, in which there are only 26 letters.
Alexei Leonov, cosmonaut: "In science, in the serious world, there are no doubters, but all sorts of ordinary people ... Well, how can you count on them - it's useless."
Among the real documents, you can also find fakes, but they were created rather for the sake of a joke and they did not want to deceive anyone.
The incredulous say that the astronauts were dropped from the giant Saturn rocket just before launch, taken to Las Vegas, where they had fun, and then put into a capsule and dropped into the ocean from a helicopter.
And yet the main argument for the fact that the Americans were on the moon is that the Soviet Union recognized their victory. Of the 6 expeditions, the astronauts brought almost 400 kilograms of lunar soil and gave part to Soviet scientists. And soon our automatic stations brought stones and dust from the Moon. The samples were compared and found that they are the same and all, of course, of extraterrestrial origin.
In the Chilean Andes, a huge telescope is now being assembled, so powerful that it will be easy to see through it even traces on the moon. With its help, they hope to convince, finally, that the Apollo program is not a grandiose hoax, but a very expensive one, not very useful for science, but still the greatest achievement of mankind.
MOSCOW, July 20 - RIA Novosti. Famed cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who personally prepared for participation in the Soviet lunar exploration program, denied years of rumors that American astronauts were not on the Moon, and the footage broadcast on television around the world was allegedly edited in Hollywood.
He spoke about this in an interview with RIA Novosti on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the first landing in the history of mankind of US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the surface of an Earth satellite, celebrated on July 20.
So were or weren't the Americans on the moon?
“Only absolutely ignorant people can seriously believe that the Americans were not on the moon. And, unfortunately, this whole ridiculous epic about the allegedly fabricated footage in Hollywood began precisely with the Americans themselves. By the way, the first person who began to distribute these rumors, was imprisoned for slander," Aleksey Leonov noted in this regard.
Where did the rumors come from?
“It all started with the fact that when, at the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the famous American film director Stanley Kubrick, who created his brilliant film Odyssey 2001 based on the book of science fiction writer Arthur Clarke, journalists who met with Kubrick’s wife asked to talk about her husband’s work on the film in Hollywood studios.And she honestly said that there are only two real lunar modules on Earth - one in a museum where no filming has ever been done, and it’s even forbidden to walk with a camera, and the other is in Hollywood, where, to develop the logic of what is happening on the screen and additional filming of the landing of the Americans on the moon was made," the Soviet cosmonaut specified.
Why was studio photography used?
Alexei Leonov explained that in order for the viewer to be able to see the development of what is happening on the movie screen from beginning to end, elements of additional filming are used in any movie.
“It was impossible, for example, to film the real opening of the hatch of the descent ship on the Moon by Neil Armstrong - there was simply no one to film it from the surface! For the same reason, it was impossible to film Armstrong’s descent to the Moon along the ladder from the ship. Kubrick in Hollywood studios to develop the logic of what is happening, and laid the foundation for numerous gossip that the entire landing was allegedly simulated on the set, "explained Alexei Leonov.
Where Truth Begins and Editing Ends
“Real shooting began when Armstrong, who first set foot on the Moon, got a little used to it, installed a highly directional antenna, through which the broadcast to Earth was carried out. its movement on the surface of the moon," the astronaut specified.
Why did the American flag fly in the airless space of the moon?
“They argue that the American flag was flying on the moon, but it shouldn’t be. The flag really shouldn’t be flying - the fabric was used with a rather rigid reinforced mesh, the cloth was twisted into a tube and tucked into a case. The astronauts took with them a nest, which they first inserted into the lunar soil, and then they stuck the flagpole into it, and only then removed the cover. And when the cover was removed, the flag's cloth began to unfold in conditions of reduced gravity, and the residual deformation of the springy reinforced mesh created the impression that the flag was rippling, as if in the wind " , - Alexey Leonov explained the "phenomenon".
“It is simply ridiculous and ridiculous to argue that the entire film was filmed on Earth. The United States had all the necessary systems that tracked the launch of the launch vehicle itself, acceleration, correction of the flight orbit, the descent capsule flying around the Moon and its landing,” - concluded the famous Soviet cosmonaut.
What did the "lunar race" lead to two space superpowers
“In my opinion, this is the best competition in space that humanity has ever carried out. The “moon race” between the USSR and the USA is the achievement of the highest peaks of science and technology,” Alexei Leonov believes.
According to him, after the flight of Yuri Gagarin, US President Kennedy, speaking in Congress, said that the Americans simply thought too late about what triumph could be achieved by launching a man into space, and therefore the Russians triumphantly became the first. Kennedy's message was clear: within ten years, put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth.
“This was a very true step of the great politician - he united and rallied the American nation to achieve this goal. Huge funds for those times were also involved - $ 25 billion, today, this is, perhaps, all fifty billion. The program included a flyby of the moon, then the flight of Tom Stafford to the point of hovering and selection of a site for landing on Apollo 10. Sending Apollo 11 already provided for the direct landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. Michael Collins remained in orbit and waited for the return of his comrades, " - said Alexei Leonov.
18 Apollo-type ships were made to prepare for landing on the moon - the whole program was implemented perfectly, except for Apollo 13 - from the engineering point of view, nothing special happened there, it just failed, or rather, one of the fuel cells exploded , the energy weakened, and therefore it was decided not to land on the surface, but to fly around the Moon and return to Earth.
Alexei Leonov noted that only the first flight around the moon by Frank Bormann, then the landing of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon and the story of Apollo 13 remained in the memory of the Americans. These accomplishments have brought the American nation together and made every individual empathize, walk with fingers crossed, and pray for their heroes. The last flight of the Apollo series was also extremely interesting: American astronauts no longer just walked on the Moon, but traveled on its surface in a special lunar car, making interesting photographs.
In fact, it was the peak of the Cold War, and in this situation, after the success of Yuri Gagarin, the Americans simply had to win the "moon race". The USSR then had its own lunar program, and we also implemented it. By 1968, it had already existed for two years, and even the crews of our cosmonauts were formed for a flight to the Moon.
On censorship of the achievements of mankind
"The launches of the Americans as part of the lunar program were broadcast on television, and only two countries in the world - the USSR and communist China - did not broadcast these historical footage to their peoples. I thought then, and now I think - in vain, we simply robbed our people "The flight to the moon is the property and achievement of all mankind. The Americans watched Gagarin's launch, Leonov's spacewalk - why couldn't the Soviet people see it?!", laments Alexei Leonov.
According to him, a limited group of Soviet space specialists watched these launches through a closed channel.
“We had military unit 32103 on Komsomolsky Prospekt, which provided space broadcasting, since there was no TsUP in Korolev then. The Americans set up a television antenna on the surface of the moon, and everything they did there was transmitted through a television camera to Earth, several repetitions of these television broadcasts were also made.When Armstrong stood on the surface of the moon, and everyone in the USA clapped, we are here in the USSR , Soviet cosmonauts, also crossed their fingers for good luck, and sincerely wished the guys success, "recalls the Soviet cosmonaut.
How was the implementation of the Soviet lunar program
"In 1962, a decree was issued, signed personally by Nikita Khrushchev, on the creation spaceship for flying around the Moon and using the Proton launch vehicle with an upper stage for this launch. In 1964, Khrushchev signed a program for the USSR to carry out a flyby in 1967, and in 1968 - landing on the moon and returning to Earth. And in 1966, there was already a decree on the formation of lunar crews - a group was immediately recruited for landing on the moon," Alexei Leonov recalled.
The first stage of the flyby of the Earth satellite was to be carried out with the help of the launch of the L-1 lunar module by the Proton launch vehicle, and the second stage - landing and returning back - on the giant and most powerful N-1 rocket, equipped with thirty engines with a total thrust of 4.5 thousand tons with the weight of the rocket itself about 2 thousand tons. However, even after four test launches, this super-heavy rocket did not fly normally, so it had to be abandoned in the end.
Korolev and Glushko: the antipathy of two geniuses
"There were other options, for example, using a 600-ton engine developed by the brilliant designer Valentin Glushko, but Sergey Korolev refused it, since he worked on highly toxic heptyl. Although, in my opinion, this was not the reason - just two leaders , Korolev and Glushko - could not and did not want to work together. Their relationship had its own problems of a purely personal nature: Sergei Korolev, for example, knew that Valentin Glushko had once written a denunciation against him, as a result of which he was sentenced to ten years When Korolyov was released, he found out about this, but Glushko did not know that he knew about it, "said Alexei Leonov.
A small step for a man, but a giant leap for all mankind
NASA's Apollo 11 spacecraft on July 20, 1969, with a crew of three astronauts: Commander Neil Armstrong, Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin, and Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, became the first to reach the Moon in the USSR-US space race. The Americans did not pursue research tasks in this expedition, its goal was simple: to land on the Earth's satellite and return successfully.
The ship consisted of a lunar module and a command module that remained in orbit during the mission. Thus, of the three astronauts, only two went to the moon: Armstrong and Aldrin. They had to land on the moon, collect samples of the lunar soil, take pictures on the Earth satellite and install several instruments. However, the main ideological component of the trip was still the hoisting of the American flag on the moon and the holding of a video communication session with the Earth.
The launch of the ship was watched by US President Richard Nixon and German rocket scientist Hermann Oberth. A total of about a million people watched the launch at the cosmodrome and mounted observation platforms, and more than a billion people watched the television broadcast, according to the Americans, around the world.
Apollo 11 launched to the moon on July 16, 1969 at 1332 GMT and entered lunar orbit 76 hours later. The command and lunar modules were undocked about 100 hours after launch. Despite the fact that NASA intended to land on the lunar surface in automatic mode, Armstrong, as the expedition commander, decided to land the lunar module in semi-automatic mode.
The lunar module landed on the Sea of Tranquility on July 20 at 20:17:42 GMT. Armstrong descended to the lunar surface on July 21, 1969 at 02:56:20 GMT. Everyone knows the phrase that he uttered when he stepped on the moon: "This is one small step for a person, but a giant leap for all mankind."
Aldrin also landed on the moon 15 minutes later. The astronauts collected the necessary amount of materials, placed the instruments and installed a television camera. After that, they planted an American flag in the field of view of the camera and held a communication session with President Nixon. The astronauts left a commemorative plaque on the moon with the words: "Here, people from planet Earth first set foot on the moon. July 1969 new era. We come in peace on behalf of all Humanity."
Aldrin was on the moon for about an hour and a half, Armstrong for two hours and ten minutes. At the 125th hour of the mission and the 22nd hour of stay on the Moon, the lunar module was launched from the surface of the Earth's satellite. The crew splashed down on the blue planet about 195 hours after the start of the mission, soon the astronauts were picked up by the aircraft carrier that came to the rescue.
In the video, someone claiming to be the director makes an alleged deathbed confession that the main US space mission was filmed in a pavilion
Another "exposure of the big lie" - historical fact the landing of the Americans on the moon in 1969 - was made by American director Patrick Murray. At least on his behalf, a video interview with Stanley Kubrick, made 15 or 16 years ago, was posted on the Internet, where the famous director admits that all the videos of the landing on the moon of Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin are fake.
In a conversation that allegedly took place before the death of the filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick states: “I committed a huge fraud against the American public. With the participation of the United States government and NASA. The moon landing was faked, all the landings were fake, and I was the person who filmed it." According to the director, in fact, the footage was filmed by him in an ordinary studio on Earth. According to him, the moon landing was a fantasy of President Nixon, who really wanted to make it a reality. The government offered the director a large amount of money to implement the idea, and he agreed to make a "movie".
However, people interested in astronautics immediately suspected a trick with the video and saw on it the dissimilarity of Kubrick speaking on behalf of the famous director. In particular, blogger Vitaly Egorov posted a real photo of Kubrick, whose face is really different from what is on the video. According to it, several inconsistencies can be immediately noted, for example, the absence of moles on the cheek of the real Kubrick, a different face shape.
Other researchers of the issue recalled that NASA at one time did indeed admit that it filmed some footage of the landing on the moon of Armstrong and Aldrin, fearing that the real shots turned out to be very weak and did not express all the solemnity of the moment.
As for the very essence of the issue, then, as MK was told at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the main evidence that the Americans were on the moon was and remains lunar soil, brought by them in large quantities. Its elemental and isotopic composition, which has no analogue on Earth, completely coincided with those samples of regolith that were delivered at different times by three Soviet automatic lunar stations.
According to Igor MITROFANOV, Head of the Space Gamma Spectroscopy Laboratory of IKI RAS, all these disputes about the landing of Americans on the moon, apparently, will not subside until we again begin to systematically, professionally explore our eternal companion. “We took the last soil sample from the Moon back in 1976, and since then there has not been a single mission! But the Moon is our seventh continent, it is the future foothold of mankind, which we must study, first, of course, with the help of automatic stations, - says Igor Georgievich. - If everything goes as we plan, and in 2020 our Luna-26 orbiter enters the orbit of the satellite, then the cameras installed on it with a resolution of 1 meter will “see” and provide everyone with a photo of the Soviet Lunokhod, and footprints of NASA astronauts on the moon.
Help "MK". The very first Russian mission after a 42-year break "Luna-25" calculated for November 2018. It involves the delivery of a spacecraft with scientific equipment to the lunar surface in the southern subpolar region, as well as the development of soft landing technology and survival during the lunar night.
Project "Luna-26" planned to be implemented in 2020. It involves the launch of the spacecraft into the orbit of the Moon with a height of 50-100 kilometers, followed by a transition to a height of 500 km.
Project "Luna-27" involves the delivery to the surface of the Moon, in the region of the South Pole, a lander with scientific equipment.
Project "Luna-28" involves the delivery to the Moon of an apparatus with a soil sampling device for taking cryogenic samples of regolith from a depth of up to 2 meters and delivering them to Earth.