Any thoughts on the Pale Green Horse?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qjCP8DorGA
and many others. This one is short and repeats the image.
Others have the entire newscast.
Or could this be a CGI, even though it came from MSNBC?
Jack
It could be a literal projection. Remember that allegedly one of the "exploding cigar"-like provocations aimed at Castro and his regime was the plan for a U.S. sub to surface and fire star shells above Havana, thus heralding the Second Coming.
An appeal to the emotions of the Christers?
Hey ... There's a sucker born again every minute.
It could be some sort of bizarre light artefact - but I'm bemused as to what would have caused it.
It could also be a projection. But there's a problem here too in that nothing else seems to get in the way of the beam of projected light.
NB as we all know, if you're in the cinema, and some idiot walks in between the projector and the screen, light and imagery from the projector is spilt onto that person.
However, if the image is projected from an angle similar to the camera, then there are foreground figures that the green thing passes behind and yet there is no clear green light spill onto them.
I wouldn't be incredibly surprized if it's some sort of psyop playing into Christian fundamentalist belief in Revelations.
However, as far as I remember, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are the White Horse, the Red Horse, the Black Horse and the Pale Horse.
I don't see any Green Hoss in there..... :flypig:
She was only the equestrian's daughter ...
But all the horsemen knew her.
The imagery is not the greatest in quality, but I'd lean at this point towards an effect of projection, perhaps simply the use of a mild light or reflected light upon an animal whose hair and hide had been treated with a phosphorescent spray paint that was (or was not) discernible to someone next to the animal. I would guess the next question would be this: What would be the intent of such a trompe l'oeil?
My mind goes immediately to the military strategist Sir Basil Liddell Hart, a student of Sun Tzu and others, who -- in speaking of slashing cuts into the line (in this case in terms of mind wars) --suggested that the deeper the penetrating cut, the greater the effect (particularly on command), and the shorter the cut, the more immediate the effect. If the intent was was intended to be local (on the protestors, for immediate crowd control/dispersal), but merely captured on video, then the animal would have appeared green to the people in the streets. If the intended mind war impact was on the viewer, the animal would likely not have appeared to be green to the protestors but only seen to be green by the TV viewer. Are there any print reports of protesters seeing green horses (especially at more than one location)?
No green horses.
But 193 reports of pink elephants.
And one of pink ephelants.
That guy had one too many banama daiqueries.
There were real horses and camels used by the pro-Mubarak protesters. I think it is just a lighting effect.
If you look at the version
here, the "green horse" footage is playing in the left hand window of a split screen with a (presumably) live interview being conducted in the right-hand side of the screen.
At the top of the left-hand pane is the caption "EARLIER", suggesting that the "green horse" footage is a pre-record.
Now, if the "green horse" footage is a pre-record, then it would be important to see the original live footage.
In part because there are ways of keying and highlighting parts of a shot, frame by frame, which can be achieved relatively easily in a digital edit suite.
In other words, is this footage which has been manipulated in an edit suite and then rebroadcast?
Magda Hassan Wrote:There were real horses and camels used by the pro-Mubarak protesters. I think it is just a lighting effect.
At one point the "animal's" neck seems elongated -- like a camel's.