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I was a DP back in the day and used both film and archaic video equipment, in and out of studio settings.

Show me the actual equipment used... keeping in mind the enormous battery packs and 1" tape recorders that would have had to have been used.

Color analog video cameras were not "camcorders"... the video cassette for 1" tape was never manufactured, and the 3/4 inch tape cartridge was way too huge to be part of a camera.

How was all this technology powered on the moon?

Battery packs had to be the size of a 1970's television set.

And where is the transmitter for the camera? Who made it? And where are the control arms, etc., in order for the zoom and tilt to work?

Don't see it. The main issue is the battery pack(s). And who manufactured said equipment... the actual tape recording machine... the actual transmitter... the control arms... not happening in 1970-1972 as described.

And we'll overlook the phony "earth" in the sky... which is an entirely wrong size and shape for the earth to be seen from the moon. It would be huge.

Show me the actual equipment used... keeping in mind the enormous battery packs and 1" tape recorders that would have had to have been used.

Yeah, because NASA gets most of their equipment from Radio Shack. *eyeroll*

Do you also believe that the SR-71 (built in 1962-1964) never achieved its records, and had to use parts off the shelf?

SMH

And, by the way, a 10 second search found the info... " built around the Hasselblad 500EL body... and packed an Planar 80mm f/2.8 lens... loaded with 70mm film, two with color, one with black and white... For black and white they used 70mm perforated Kodak Panatomic-X ‘fine-grained’ film with an ASA rating of 80. For color, they could’ve used any combination of Kodak Ektachrome SO–68, Kodak Ektachrom SO–121, and Kodak 2485, the latter of which featured a ‘super light-sensitive’ ASA rating of 1,600."

we'll overlook the phony "earth" in the sky... which is an entirely wrong size and shape for the earth to be seen from the moon. It would be huge

Further, if you actually had ANY knowledge of photography, you'd know that background items can vary greatly in apparent size depending on the distance to the main subject, and numerous lens settings.