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The Shining IS a really creepy movie, and is still a great one after all these years. To me it's a lot like Rosemary's Baby in creepiness. *shudder*

As for the faked photos of the Apollo moon landing, Jay Weidner wrote an interesting article called, "How Stanley Kubrick faked the Apollo Moon Landings: Alchemical Kubrick II" (a good read for those of you who, like me, are too impatient to watch YouTube videos.)

I don't know much about photography, but found the information about the Scotchlite reflective material and the possibility that it was used to fake the moon landing photographs very intriguing: "This was a screen material that was made up of hundreds of thousands of glass beads each about 25mm wide. These beads were highly reflective. The Scotchlite screen would be placed at the back of the soundstage."While I was googling around looking for the URL to this article, I came across a posting about it on the Reality Sandwich site.

When I find interesting articles, I usually scan the comments to see if like-minded people have posted some related information I can pursue to learn more.

There were some good ones here, but this one caught my eye: Next up on Reality Sandwich:

Did the Holocaust actually happen?

Any takers?

You want to see their evidence? And their explanations? At least hear their arguments, right?

It was all fun and games, until we discovered that ideas are consequential.

"Why so serious," Lion? Because ideas, even imagined ideas, for entertainment purposes, can kill. []

I'm not one for censorship, but I am one for persuasive argument.

By the way, it was Arthur C Clark who set Monolith dimensions to 1:4:9, or, 2.25:1. 2.35:1 is a common movie theater widescreen. (Read an article on aspect ratios in film.) Plans were to shoot Cinerama, but Douglas Trumbull recommended a shift to Super Panavision 70 instead for technical reasons. When it was first released, it was released at 2.21:1, which is typical for 70mm film.

You people say you're on a spiritual quest, but you lie to yourselves whenever you can; You hunger for food, but you eat candy.

I have said it before, and I will say it again: You cannot enchant reality. Reality is either enchanting, or it is not. There is the possibility that you could see real enchantment in the world, but you decide to surround yourselves with illusions instead. If you wrapped yourselves in beauty, that would be one thing, but when you try to convince yourselves it's real, you spoil everything.

In your efforts to be amazed, you preclude yourself from authentic amazement. Until you open yourself to the really real, as the best of science and reason can reveal itself to us, you cannot see true divinity-- only shadows of it.

This isn't "Lion being mean," this is a simple fact of existence. That you refuse to look, breaks my heart.

I was leaning more towards the skeptical side when I was reading the Weidner article, but if someone goes through all the trouble of trying (but I must say, failing) to link it with Holocaust Denial, well then I'm more inclined to believe it than not.