Muchmore: Brake Lights On?

[David Josephs]

I would like to contribute to a Zapruder film thread, but I'm not sure the one suggested above is the appropriate one.

Jeff - take a look at the various Zapruder threads in the JFK assassination directory and see if any of fits.

I linked to a good thread in post 34 above, but you may find another one more appopriate.

Thanks Jan... definitely a good thread... yet the NPIC events do not begin until Saturday evening when Dino gets his 8mm original.

One of the possibilities for alteration is the answer to: What happens to the Philips to Rowley copy of the film delivered Friday night?

By Saturday evening, LIFE has created B&W film and still copies of the ALTERED film as we know from the images in that issue.
By Saturday morning the FBI is analyzing a film - possible a 16mm film - at Kodak with Phil.

In the thread I referenced I will be going hour by hour... another note of interest is what almost 20 people saw the one and only time they viewed the film at Kodak on what was called an Inspection Projector.
(the same projector the FBI would have used)

"...frames on the left side upside down! -- and it ran at four times normal speed."

Even at high speed... we could see the results, including the infamous frame where the Top of JFK's head is blown off." -Phil C.


I will pick this up at the other thread... yet imagine for a second what these people saw...

Unstabilized, running next to frames going in the reverse order at 4 times the normal speed... at 18fps we are talking about 72fps (even if 16fps that's 64fps)

The actual infamous scene WE SEE is 4 frames long... at 64fps - unless filmed at 48fps - I find it hard to believe those watching could discern anything in less than 1/12th of a second...
Which may be why we have so little info.

That the SS didn't even have a man at Kodak during this process (or did they?) also seems strange yet they didn't know what they had captured so maybe they didn't.
Or Sorrells knew something about the Zap film at that time that we do not know he knew.

I will leave this thread with this.... Zapruder was NOT in the room when his film was being processed...

Does this signed statement say anything about NOT creating a duplicate of this film... 0184... ??
yet it does state that the film was NOT SHOWN TO ANY OTHER PERSON... only those employees who handled it in the "ordinary course of handing the same"

Phil tells us that in addition to him, Zapruder, the process man, & Dick Blair of Kodak Cust Serv (who signed this as a notary) up to 11 "other staff people" inspected this film.
More at the other thread...

(maybe the mods can combine a few on theZfilm thread into one??
DJ

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