The famous director of “Capricorn 1” also joined NASA! ? Space movie history of intrigue

The origins of the Apollo program conspiracy theory

Once, I was shocked to find out that the person I was talking to had no faith in the Apollo moon landings. ``If they were able to do such amazing things, then why haven't they been to the moon for nearly 50 years?'' is a common argument, and they say that the photo was taken on a lunar set built in a studio. At first I thought he was joking, but when I realized he was serious about it, I panicked. He was in his early 20s, but since the beginning of the 2000s in Japan, he has scandalously covered the fake documentary ``Operation Lune'' (2002) produced by a French TV station and spread Apollo conspiracy theories. I'm not sure if it was because he saw it as a child or if he just took what was written on the internet at face value, but I wonder how he would have reacted if I had shown him Capricorn One.

However, there were some confusing incidents during the Apollo broadcasts at the time. For example, Apollo 12 in 1969, which made the second manned moon landing, featured a color TV broadcast, but when setting up the camera on the moon, sunlight was directed directly at the lens. , the image processing processor has malfunctioned.

“Capricorn One” (C) Capricorn One Associates 1978

The TV station that was broadcasting the incident panicked. The footage was immediately replaced with the following: "CBS News ran a reenactment of two men in spacesuits performing a scheduled spacewalk at the Lunar Module studio in Bethpage, Long Island." The replacement program was even more unconventional, enlisting the famed puppeteer Bill Baird and his assistants to perform spacewalks with puppets they had created for Baird's work and theater in Glenwich Village several months earlier. " Marketing the Moon: The Apollo Program and the Greatest Public Relations Operation in History " (written by David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek/Nikkei Business Publications), and quite a few viewers recreated it. He said he didn't realize it was a video.Urban legends about lights being seen behind the moon, hanging from wires, and staff members may have their origins in this area. I think so.

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