Or Kubrick's fear of flying was a myth, a cover story.
Well it was a pretty big cover story bearing in mind that production of ALL his films had to be done in the UK as he wouldn't fly. Do you really think film companies would have spent all that money to move production if it was a myth? Oh, i know the film companies were in on the cover up as well, another 20000 people in on the Apollo conspiracy.
I think also that the reason the whole "made in a TV" studio theory is a bit off the wall is the scale of production required. Most HBs believe that the missions were faked from Apollo 8 which means that 15 Missions would need to be faked (including skylab and ASTP).
On average each mission was about 2 weeks which had near continuous recordings of the voice loops as well as the raft of photos, films, amature radio monitoring, Astronomers, radio telescopes and press.
So thats about , on average
336 hours of live radio loops to record per Mission without error
3-5 hours of video or live TV on different formats per mission without error
600 Mission photos per mission without error
Heres were the little theory goes to the realms of the unbelievable
That would mean a whopping
3360 hours of live sound feed recorded
30-50 hours of recorded and live video
4,000- 6000 Photographs some linked closely with the video footage. Think TV images of the Astronauts taking photos of each other.
Now heres the logistics bit.
on Average a good production takes about 4-8 months of principle photography for a 90-120 min film. Post production, effects and editing take about 8 months.
Anyone in the TV, Film and Radio business will explain that the amount of material you hear, or see, is only a fraction of the material recorded. It is also clear that the amount of production time required in scripting, continuity, effects and editing is proportional to the length of the film.
It took 2 years for 2001 to be filmed which included the pre production, principle photography, pick ups, effects shots and editing. which Kubrik directed personally. The film is not short on continuity errors and quite frankly looks like it was filmed in MGM Elstree studios. The effects are flawed and not realistic:-
1.) the earth is too sharp and shows no atmosphere.
2.) In the weightless environment of the moon transport the stewardess pours coffee from a normal coffee pot.
3.) Bowman holds his breath before going into the vacuum of space. This is bad
4.) on the moon base the actors all walk as though they are on earth and not 1/6 gravity
5.) the actors on the Discovery all act like they are on earth when not in the centrifuge. They should be floating around
6.) the centrifuge section does not rotate fast enough to create any form of gravitational effect in zero g.
7.) When bowman blows the explosive bolts the pod does not move an inch, in real live there would be a movement which may have been corrected by some form of attitude thrusters.
8.) The sun and earth positions are incorrect on the Tyco set.
Ok so lets assume that for the Apollo TV every hour of video shot constituted at least 70-80 hours of rushes (film that is used throughout the filming process and subsequently discarded in editing) a good example of this is the Lord of the Ring trilogy, which used 6 million feet of film (1100 miles) for just 9.3 hours of on screen filming (11 hours extended versions).
So the real shooting time for any fakery could be in some cases upto 12 hours just for 5-10 min of film. (they had to get it perfect *cough*).
Therefore assuming that as a happy median, to film 50 hours of film would need about 300 days of constant 12 hour a day film production.
Then you would need the staff to support all this, set dressers, prop makers, lighting, sound, camera men, grips, best boys, catering etc etc. A small army of people.
All this without a single person finding out and no major continuity errors. The only evidence of this theory is speeded up film, light anomalies on films, shadows and a hair on scanned negative (The C Rock), talk about thin on the ground.
It would be easier to fly to the moon.