Are there statements from Kodak employees who saw the Zfilm friday?

[David Healy]

What I am saying - and I understand my attempts at explanation have been inexact - is that the Z-film is best seen as a series of sequential still photographs rather than a "clock" of the events. This is also what Ralph Pearse of the NPIC was trying to explain to the SS agents. Any attempts to calculate speeds or make any kind of deduction from the film was bound to be incorrect.

I frankly do not understand the last two replies to this thread.

Let me be blunt, had the Zapruder film been shot by a professional cameraperson-cinematographer, with a camera mounted on a tripod with dual pan handles complete with rear zoom/focus controls, equipped with a pro wide angle zoom lens--framed perfectly: following the limo action down Elm Street that November day... then take that perfectly filmed 45 second sequence and with 1963 optical film technology, 1963 matte artists, 1963 glass artists, 1963 pro optical film printer-aerial film lab printer personnel a competent post production effects supervisor-- they coulddeliver in 14 days a finished product that looked exactly like the extent in-camera Zapruder film we see today. Complete with 'expected' film gamma properties, no-less.

Zavada played B&H camera, its operation to the max, good points and bad points, discussed non-sensical crap about the Ektachrome II and IIA double 8mm film till the cows came home. All irrelevant. Why? He didn't use Zapruder's camera in his studies, the 6th floor museum would not allow it. What we see passed today, as the in-camera original Zapruder film, well, that could of been shot with the B&H camera I have sitting in my old studio. Who would know? Further, Zavada was a KODAK 8mm film properties (manufacturing type) engineer, he has no, zero expertise as to the films optical content, nor any expertise in film post production, period.

And IF the Zapruder film WAS altered, and those that initiated same altering did not get rid of the in-camera original, they are complete idiots. And I doubt they are.

As to 8mm film gamma issues? If there is no original in-camera film, (if the question arises) what are you going to compare the new and IMPROVED Zapruder film too when judging its inherentfilm properties, ie., film gamma? The original has disappeared for one, which no one knows about... Best you can do is to solicit expert testimony, like a film properties guy like Zavada... and the best he can say regarding the new and improved Zapruder is 'it doesn't look like a first generation 8mm Kodachrome II 25 ASA film to me.' So what? Who cares, it is what it is.