On July 20th, 1969, men from Earth stepped foot on the moon and the world changed forever. So did Stanley Kubrick's career. If you believe in that sort of thing.
It's been fifty years since people from earth stepped foot on the moon. It was an event watched worldwide, 500 million people tuned in. But how did they capture the footage on the moon? And how did they broadcast it back to the Earth?
And what did Stanley Kubrick do to trick all of you chumps into believing it happened?
Today we're going to talk about the filmmaking of the moon landing, the achievement for mankind, and how Kubrick got the lenses to shoot Barry Lyndon.
So let's talk about the moon.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." --- Neil Armstrong
Footage of the moon landingThere are 143 minutes of footage from the Apollo 11 moon landing. According to NASA,