(laughs)
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- There's lots and lots of people who still believe
that the moon landing didn't actually happen
and I kind of feel like we should get to the bottom
of this and see if we can recreate the moon landing
then maybe there's a possibility that that could
have actually have been done on a sound stage
back in 1969.
(beeps and distorted messages)
- [Astronaut] Beautiful just beautiful.
- There's lots of compelling evidence
that the moon landing did happen.
(beeps)
And there's actually a lot of compelling evidence
that maybe the moon landing was staged.
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- So I've actually done a lot of research on this.
- Going into your research what were some of your doubts
that it happened?
- I was confused about how they filmed it,
If they were just stepping out who put the camera there?
But they have that completely like documented.
There was this guy, Stan Lebar, who invented a camera
that was in the side of the lunar module when Neil Armstrong
was stepping out he like pulled a lever that flipped it open
and that's how they got his steps.
- Sure they filmed it, but to broadcast it live
from the moon, that seems pretty difficult,
especially using slow scan television which is like one
image for each frame of video that they had to then send
to Australia when then had to be changed
into broadcast format.
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- If there's no wind on the moon right?
How come the flag is blowing in the wind?
- Inertia, which is a force of once an object is in motion
it remains in motion, so from the force of them putting it
into the ground that's where the movement comes from
and there wasn't like gravity or force in the atmosphere
to like stop it.
- A lot of people think that there was a version
that was filmed just in case they weren't able to make it
to the moon or land on the moon.
- It makes sense that they would have a back up plan
because we had to show that we actually landed on the moon.
We had to beat the Russians.
- Yeah.
- Do you guys wanna get down to the bottom of this or what?
(table agrees)
- Let's do it.
- The day has come we're going to recreate the moon landing
on this awesome sound stage.
We got a pulley rope system hooked up.
We have the harness which is gonna be used to pull me up
like I'm on the moon's landscape and it's gonna be awesome.
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How do we keep the flag like in the motion
that it looks like in the video?
- Wire, with a little bit of fan.
- We got our flag right here
which will simulate anti-gravity.
It's time to create the landscape of the moon.
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- I think just piling dirt is not going to work
just because we're not going to get the detail
and the shadows just from dirt,
so what I'd like to do is kind of, is still get some dirt
and sand but put it strategically in places
and then use pieces of like rock foam.
- Anything that we do end up having to do in post production
we're going to try to do as accurately to what tools they
had available at the time.
So we're not going to use any CGI,
we're only going to use very simple compositing tricks
that are similar to what they would have been able
to do at the time using front projection,
which is what a lot of experts think was used
to fake the footage.
We're gonna try to extend this surface in post
to make it feel like there's much bigger moon surface here.
- Okay, so we got the astronaut NASA suits right in here.
This is about to be the ultimate unboxing video.
Are you ready?
- I'm so excited.
Whoa!
- Here's my oxygen pack so I can breathe in fake space.
- [Crystal] That's super legit.
- So I'm getting suited up right now.
They're making sure I'm super safe
and that I don't break any legs.
(grunts)
I feel like the belle of the ball.
Oh my god.
- I think this is gonna work.
- I don't know if this is gonna work.
- I think the point will get across.
- Okay, I'm just gonna kinda bounce around
and just do it.
(laughs)
- [Voiceover] Oh my god.
- [Voiceover] Hey Ricky, I think you wanna move
like you're in jello.
- [Female Voice] Yeah move slow.
- [Voiceover] Like you're in slow motion.
- [Female Voice] Slow motion.
Slow.
- Yeah, it just takes a second, okay.
(exciting music)
- [Female Voice] Yeah that's good.
- So since we don't actually have two astronauts,
we're gonna take Ricky here
and we've already filmed him once doing the kind
of floating motion and now we're going to film him again
on the other side of the flag as the second astronaut
and then we'll composite them together with a split screen.
- Cool.
- Cool, let's do it.
It's going a little bit too fast.
Yeah, now you look like you're in space.
(upbeat music)
What I'm doing right now is compositing
using digital versions of the same techniques
that would have been available to filmmakers at the time.
(drum roll)
(intense music plays)
- [Astronaut] Yes indeed they've got the flag up now,
you can see the stars and stripes on the (mumbles).
(transmission)
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