30-08-2013, 10:29 AM
I've seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mr. Zapruder, and you're no Stanley Kubrick
Since seeing the film in the mid-seventies I've come to have a handful of objections:
The limo pops onto Elm from another space-time continuum, through a portal from the Terminator series, et cetera
The dramatic slowing described by 59 witnesses is absent
Head turns by Greer and Kellerman are too, too fast
The bubble-gum wound--ye gods and little fishes
The blackened back of the head at 317 and elsewhere--Groden's count is eighty-one who saw The Wound--and it includes Hill and others present in the Plaza
David Joseph's initial suggestion it was shot at 48 fps and edited fits with a turnaround from the two NPIC events which were compartmentalized and in the second involved an unslit film--a paradox as the film was previously split
Chris Davidson adds reference to
Filmed at 48 Frames Per Sec.
Frame removal pattern is keep 2 , discard 3. A 60% reduction.
Playing at approx 18 fps.
David Healy has presented a lengthy overview of a technique which should have been available at the Hawkeyeworks
So in my view the limited editing was possible given the time and equipment
I think the disagreements arose out of arguing at cross-purposes, extensive versus limited, definitions, et cetera
A few years after the assassination in 1969 a friend with a 16mm Beaulieu put it on a tripod so I could make an animation I'd envisioned
I set up the easel with three elements of the American flag each in primaries secondaries black white and he took four frames of each of the arrangements on the easel
It took four hours to get a minute of footage for the light show
The Zapruder film had about as many frames as I had prepared for, although the number used was about 240
It was just the effect I wanted
Contrast a pair of rank amateurs with a single camera to a team of professionals with state of the art equipment and I posit a 26 second 8 mm film could be "improved" over that weekend
This is a part of that enormously funded pack of liars which included one E Howard Hunt who was tasked by his superior to "improve" the cable traffic
So the man "improved" it to the point he had Kennedy ordering rather than opposing the murders of Diem and Nhu
A tactical adaption was made within 48 hours removing the worst of the evidence of crossfire
Of course the head snap was denied by the haughty Dulles--Lifton told of it in Best Evidence
and the quack hired gun "expert" ascribed it to "jet effect"
These aren't artists; they're killers
Since seeing the film in the mid-seventies I've come to have a handful of objections:
The limo pops onto Elm from another space-time continuum, through a portal from the Terminator series, et cetera
The dramatic slowing described by 59 witnesses is absent
Head turns by Greer and Kellerman are too, too fast
The bubble-gum wound--ye gods and little fishes
The blackened back of the head at 317 and elsewhere--Groden's count is eighty-one who saw The Wound--and it includes Hill and others present in the Plaza
David Joseph's initial suggestion it was shot at 48 fps and edited fits with a turnaround from the two NPIC events which were compartmentalized and in the second involved an unslit film--a paradox as the film was previously split
Chris Davidson adds reference to
Filmed at 48 Frames Per Sec.
Frame removal pattern is keep 2 , discard 3. A 60% reduction.
Playing at approx 18 fps.
David Healy has presented a lengthy overview of a technique which should have been available at the Hawkeyeworks
So in my view the limited editing was possible given the time and equipment
I think the disagreements arose out of arguing at cross-purposes, extensive versus limited, definitions, et cetera
A few years after the assassination in 1969 a friend with a 16mm Beaulieu put it on a tripod so I could make an animation I'd envisioned
I set up the easel with three elements of the American flag each in primaries secondaries black white and he took four frames of each of the arrangements on the easel
It took four hours to get a minute of footage for the light show
The Zapruder film had about as many frames as I had prepared for, although the number used was about 240
It was just the effect I wanted
Contrast a pair of rank amateurs with a single camera to a team of professionals with state of the art equipment and I posit a 26 second 8 mm film could be "improved" over that weekend
This is a part of that enormously funded pack of liars which included one E Howard Hunt who was tasked by his superior to "improve" the cable traffic
So the man "improved" it to the point he had Kennedy ordering rather than opposing the murders of Diem and Nhu
A tactical adaption was made within 48 hours removing the worst of the evidence of crossfire
Of course the head snap was denied by the haughty Dulles--Lifton told of it in Best Evidence
and the quack hired gun "expert" ascribed it to "jet effect"
These aren't artists; they're killers