Below is the cleanest version I could find of a dupe of the original video, which has been deleted. It is supposed to be footage of Stanley Kubrick confessing, in an interview, that he filmed the Apollo moon landings using the special effects tech he developed during the production of 2001.

This interview is completely obviously fake. At 12:19, you can clearly hear the prankster (T. Patrick Murray) calling the guy playing Stanley by his real name—Tom. Tom, moreover, is not an actor, but a homeless man that Patrick met through his neighbor, Kimber Daniels. Here is a transcript of that part:

You don’t say he said anything. You say what he says. Tom, I’m giving you directions. You don’t have to imitate him (Richard Nixon). You’re not reporting it. You’re repeating it … We’re doing exposition here. That’s how we’re going to sneak it in.

Here is the fakery:

Now proved: The interview is fake.

And yet here we have an unscrupulous YouTube channel that has edited the above footage by removing the “Tom” remark. The channel is meant for right-wing redneck conspiracy buffs; the Alex Jones market. I’ve always wondered if Jones and other leaders of the illiterate believe some or none of the crap they promote. Here, at least, we see that the answer is none. Chanel owner Brother Ernest has edited the video in order to fool his own audience, because he knows that rednecks (1) want to believe that the (educated) elite are frauds, and (2) are not fond of fact checking.

Even though we despise uneducated rednecks, they do have money they can spend. And they vote—by becoming YouTube subscribers or during a presidential election. So people like Trump and this idiot are happy to placate them with lies.

Here it is again, then, edited for rednecks by Brother Ernest—pretending to protect them from manipulation while being the actual manipulator:

Anyway, all it takes is one second of listening and one second of photo comparison to realize that the “interview” is a fake. If you’re weak on voice and vision comparison, the “Tom, I’m giving you directions” ought to be sufficient.

Conclusion: It is obvious to everyone that this interview is fake. Yet redneck news sites like this one are still touting it as real—over two years later!

The fake footage was supposed to be part of a larger project called Shooting Stanley Kubrick. And here is the prankster’s website. He calls himself an “unknown filmmaker” and has spent a lot of time making his landing page look good. But he used a barely cogent homeless guy for the interview and forgot edited-out the “Tom” part.

Here is a good take-down of the project.