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dchill

(38,502 posts)
3. Yeah! They do stuff with TV transmission, too...
Tue Dec 27, 2022, 12:17 AM
Dec 2022

... that makes Matthew McConaughey look smart! Well, not too dumb, anyway.

3Hotdogs

(12,390 posts)
4. Shit. That's nuthin. T.V.? It was maybe 50 years ago. Some guys set up props in a warehouse
Tue Dec 27, 2022, 12:55 AM
Dec 2022

in Queens, about a mile from the 57 St. bridge and made it look like there was guys walking on the Moon.

--- and people actually believed that shit.

3Hotdogs

(12,390 posts)
7. Yeah. My cousin lived on Roosevelt Island at the time. He told me about it. Said they took a couple'
Tue Dec 27, 2022, 01:09 AM
Dec 2022

old black and white cameras out of storage and used them for the pictures. Got a couple'a space suits from the old Captain Video show that use'ta be on Dumont Television Channel 5. They took the flying apparatus from the Peter Pan broadway show and strapped two guys on it and made 'em look like they was bouncing around in the sand they had on the prop state.

The set was cheap. Black paint and a little circle of blue on top of the black wall.

All this was to justify where the fed's budget deficit went to.

Cousin Bob is dead or I'd give you his phone number so's you could talk to him and write about it. I tried to tell people about it but they don't listen. I guess the fake story makes 'em feel good about themselves.

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