But If you did work in film at that time you will or should have first hand knowledge and experience which you can't get if you study the subject,. Jarrah White has studied media and clearly thinks he knows everything, Collins has worked in media for over 30 years, and whilst not specifically during the mid-late 60's I would take his experience any day over Jarrah's certificates of studying media.
I don't believe Jarrah really studied media. He may claim that he has certificates, but if he really does, that it the
easiest program ever passed. Or else it's not in the technical side, which is what he's claiming relevant expertise in. You may not have first-hand experience if all you've done is studied,
but you still know what was and wasn't possible. Bluntly, faking a Moon landing
still isn't possible with today's tech, and it sure as hell wasn't possible in 1969. You don't have to actually work in the industry to know that. If you've read more than a single book about SFX, you should know that, because there are huge amounts of complexities to even a single minute of lunar footage that can't all be duplicated the same way. This is why most SFX shots are rapid, yet the Apollo footage is unbroken shots. Heck, it's worth noting that there is unbroken Apollo footage that is longer than the movie
Rope, famous for being in one unbroken take. But it actually isn't, because not enough film fit in the camera for Hitchcock to really do a single take. It's actually six.
No one actually had to work with Stanley Kubrick to know that an Apollo mission filmed by Kubrick would have been radically different. All you have to do is know even a little about Stanley Kubrick, and I've never seen an HB making the claim who knows anything about Stanley Kubrick. You don't have to actually have done wirework to know that the Apollo footage can't have been done with wirework; all you have to do is know how wirework is actually done and compare its possible results to the Apollo footage. First-hand experience is nice, but it simply isn't necessary.