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Username: Divine Wind
Date: 2020-06-03 01:00:12
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Its common knowledge now that Stanley Kubrick was tasked with filming the moon landing scenario in exchange for some camera equipment nasa had to film 2001 a space odyssey. Hollywood continued to mock the general public by including scenes in certain movies of film crews filming the moon landing... The most obvious one being in a James bond film where Roger Moore is running after a bad guy through a movie studio... I think the movie was diamonds are forever.. Don't quote me.
If a certain brilliant director did direct it, then you might expect the director to film a similar movie beforehand, and maybe take ages to do it, maybe develop new techniques, then to direct a quick small budget directly afterwards to cover his tracks. This is exactly what happened.
1968 Space Odyssey (took 5 years to make), developed a new technique called 'Front Screen Projection'
1969 Moon Landing
1971 Clockwork Orange (he even stated he wanted to make a quick film)
Is Front Screen Projection apparent in the Moon landings film?
Methology for FSP

Different shadow angles
You would also expect this director to be chosen for his acute attention to detail (this is what Kubrick is specifically known for)
You might half expect a director to leave subtle clues in a later film(s). This is exactly what happened with the Shining. The Shining was released 11 years after 1969 in 1980 (ie Apollo 11). How far to the moon? what do astronauts drink? What do the landing pads look like? It's all there.
Then you have strange things like changing room numbers for the film, room numbers that were different in the book. The famous scene with the young women ageing in the bathroom takes place in room number 237. Now, the considered distance to the moon is apparently somewhere between 237,000 to 241,000 miles (I believe the considered distance has changed over the years). The original number in the book was 217. The laughable reason for the change was apparently that the hotel management where the film was made didn't want to spook their own customers out as the hotel did indeed have a room 217, but not a room 237. Convincing?
Then you have one of the best scenes from the Shining, where Nicholson is going mad and endlessly typing out the following line on his typewriter.
"A11 rest and no play makes Jack a dull boy". Is that an 'All' or a A11 for Apollo 11?
Nice Jumper!!
Tang cans
launch pads
Room 237
Throwing stuff at Rockets

If the above coincidences all seem a bit strange, then did Kubrick also try to leave hints in some of his other films about the real world ; maybe Eyes Wide Shut??
One thing I haven't been able to find in terms of image is an aerial shot of the parking lot.
Apparently, the cars visible in the parking lot during an aerial shot of the hotel are arranged in groups of 7, 21, 6, and 9 -- or July 21, 1969. If this is true, then that is a bizarre coincidence, or maybe not?