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Originally Posted by Candy
I think you answered your own questions, with your first post. Great material, too!
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By Jove, you could be right.
But even if that is the case, it is still only a chain of speculation based upon supposition and a very slender thread of evidence.
In the same vein, here is my further speculation on the form that the Moon Hoax took in its early stages. This is based on only two pieces of evidence, the editorial that appears at the start of this thread and an unreferenced footnote in "
A Thread Across The Ocean:The Heroic Story of the TransAtlantic Cable", by John Steele Gordon, which claims that at the time of the first Moon Landing there were rumors that the event had been filmed in a TV studio.
The Campbell editorial establishes that at least one individual and thus likely others made comparisons between the televised moon landings and (probably) "
2001:A Space Odyssey". This is understandable since that film made an impressive, albiet flawed, attempt to simulate the lunar environment.
Given also that the actual Apollo footage seemed of
lower quality to that in the film, then the idea that some people might decide it was filmed in a TV studio, is not too much of a stretch. One thing that
might have also contributed to this was an episode of "
Star Trek" ("Tomorrow is Yesterday"), which contains reference to a moon launch "...next Wednesday.". By coincidence Apollo 11 was launched on a Wednesday and some early versions of the hoax claims could have mentioned this as a 'whistle-blow'.
It is thus somewhat ironic that the claims that only Hollywood could have produced the Moon Hoax, probably began as:
"Of course its fake, they can do better in Hollywood." #-o
I think I'll leave it at this point, as I have reached the limits of the slender evidence at my disposal