Zapruder used color reversal film. That is film that MAKES a positive print on the original in camera reels. I've worked with Colorado reversal film a long time ago. I have no idea how you would doctor that with today's technology. Digital stuff is easy to touch. But tiny little images in a physical chemical medium you have to mess with. I don't know how you do it
Years later the original was examined by an expert is that specific film stock. He examined not just the image but multiple artifacts of the film that appear outside the image. He examined the grain patterns and light density of the exposed film. There were no alterations.
The film was faked with the use of a multi-p[lane camera, a device developed by the Disney Studios in the late 1930s. The multi-plane camera allows you to create what appears to be one piece of film from what is actually a stack of several images each on its own transparent surface. The sweeping view of Pinocchio's village in which the camera almost seems to be floating through space was created with the multi-plane camera.
They would have copied Zapruder's film several times over, masking different portions of the image in each copy. Thus one would show only the limo and its occupants. Another would show people in the background. Another would contain only foreground objects, et cetera. Each of these separate films could then be re-assembled to create a new version of the event.
The first "plane" of the picture would be used to add cover-up images, like the street sign from which the limo appears to emerge after JFK was hit in the throat. There is also a very obvious (in high definition) black rectangle that masks the enormous bloody wound at the back of Kennedy's head.
They could conceal the slowing of the limo by changing the background behind it to one that is moving more rapidly. We know the people in the background are not in their proper place timewise because many of them appear larger than the people in the foreground, which is an impossible effect to achieve with any normal camera lens.
Also, Mary Jean Moorman and her friend appear in the wrong time and place in the background of the film that we are allowed see. The film shows them on the grass, where they were seconds before. We know she is supposed to be standing on the pavement because her famous photo can absolutely pinpoint where she had to have been when she took it (The very pergola that Zapruder was standing on is in her photo and it helps to place her exactly where she said she was.)
They had only one weekend to whip up a fake version of the Zapruder film. It was a rush job and a crude forgery. High definition video gives away much of the fakery. But the multi-plane camera is what makes it look a single piece of 8mm film.
They would have copied Zapruder's film several times over, masking different portions
Except the original still exists. You are talking about a process that manipulates prints, not the original. Experts can determine if they are looking at the camera original or a print. We still have the original film that went through the camera. It's in the National archives.
This was fun. I enjoyed learning about the multi-plane camera
But may I say it's an absolute Fantasia.
The elaborate production you speak of doesn't match the chain of evidence and I can see many issues with this theory.
Zapruder had the film developed and he and a few others had viewed it IN DALLAS within an HOUR of getting to the lab. There was absolutely no time to make alterations.
What happened
First, Zapruder, a colleague, a cop, a secret service man and a reporter tried to get the film developed at the Dallas Morning News, and then at a television station WFAA, but they had the wrong equipment. They did 16mm in black and white, not 8mm color film. They refuse to do it cuz they thought they might damage it.
So then they went to Eastman Kodak’s plant in Dallas which was out by the airport. And there a hour after they arrived, they watched the film with some of folks who worked at Kodak.
So your idea does just not work.
Kodak didnt make copies so they went the Jamieson Film Company, to make 3 copies.
Disney made animated films. So if you wanted a separate background, you just drew a new background.
Where would get the other copies of the film to multi-plane?
For your theory to work, there needed to be a multi-plane camera in Dallas that day. And technicians to work it. All ready to go. Waiting on standby when you find out some guy named Abraham Z has footage.
Because remember anyone could have taken a picture or film that day. And they did, there was something like 30 films made that day.
The Zapruder film is just the most complete and had the best angle.
So your multi-plane camera, manipulated film now has to match other people's films. Like this one shot by Homer Nix.
That shows the assassination from a different angle and even shows Abraham Zapruder in the background. That's independent confirmation because the FBI didn't get their hands on the Nix film until December.
The film went to Washington DC to be edited. Disney invented the multi-plane camera but by the 1960s the CIA or the FBI could easily have had their own multi-plane camera at their disposal.
When the film was edited into what we see today, it could have been projected onto a screen. The fakers could simply film this "new version" of the assassination using a Brownie camera identical to Zapruder's.
Kodak's 8mm film cameras did not capture images in sharp focus. The blurriness of a second generation film would pass for first generation, and the piece of film would give all the appearance of never having been edited as it was not edited, but merely filmed off a screen (or perhaps copied in a Moviola device.) But the Zapruder film we are allowed to see is not the film Zapruder actually shot.
Zapruder was paid well by Life magazine for the film, and his family was paid even better decades later by the federal government. Their silence was purchased.
They did doctor the zapruder film.
Zapruder used color reversal film. That is film that MAKES a positive print on the original in camera reels. I've worked with Colorado reversal film a long time ago. I have no idea how you would doctor that with today's technology. Digital stuff is easy to touch. But tiny little images in a physical chemical medium you have to mess with. I don't know how you do it
Years later the original was examined by an expert is that specific film stock. He examined not just the image but multiple artifacts of the film that appear outside the image. He examined the grain patterns and light density of the exposed film. There were no alterations.
The film was faked with the use of a multi-p[lane camera, a device developed by the Disney Studios in the late 1930s. The multi-plane camera allows you to create what appears to be one piece of film from what is actually a stack of several images each on its own transparent surface. The sweeping view of Pinocchio's village in which the camera almost seems to be floating through space was created with the multi-plane camera.
They would have copied Zapruder's film several times over, masking different portions of the image in each copy. Thus one would show only the limo and its occupants. Another would show people in the background. Another would contain only foreground objects, et cetera. Each of these separate films could then be re-assembled to create a new version of the event.
The first "plane" of the picture would be used to add cover-up images, like the street sign from which the limo appears to emerge after JFK was hit in the throat. There is also a very obvious (in high definition) black rectangle that masks the enormous bloody wound at the back of Kennedy's head.
They could conceal the slowing of the limo by changing the background behind it to one that is moving more rapidly. We know the people in the background are not in their proper place timewise because many of them appear larger than the people in the foreground, which is an impossible effect to achieve with any normal camera lens.
Also, Mary Jean Moorman and her friend appear in the wrong time and place in the background of the film that we are allowed see. The film shows them on the grass, where they were seconds before. We know she is supposed to be standing on the pavement because her famous photo can absolutely pinpoint where she had to have been when she took it (The very pergola that Zapruder was standing on is in her photo and it helps to place her exactly where she said she was.)
They had only one weekend to whip up a fake version of the Zapruder film. It was a rush job and a crude forgery. High definition video gives away much of the fakery. But the multi-plane camera is what makes it look a single piece of 8mm film.
Except the original still exists. You are talking about a process that manipulates prints, not the original. Experts can determine if they are looking at the camera original or a print. We still have the original film that went through the camera. It's in the National archives.
This was fun. I enjoyed learning about the multi-plane camera
But may I say it's an absolute Fantasia.
The elaborate production you speak of doesn't match the chain of evidence and I can see many issues with this theory.
Zapruder had the film developed and he and a few others had viewed it IN DALLAS within an HOUR of getting to the lab. There was absolutely no time to make alterations.
What happened First, Zapruder, a colleague, a cop, a secret service man and a reporter tried to get the film developed at the Dallas Morning News, and then at a television station WFAA, but they had the wrong equipment. They did 16mm in black and white, not 8mm color film. They refuse to do it cuz they thought they might damage it.
So then they went to Eastman Kodak’s plant in Dallas which was out by the airport. And there a hour after they arrived, they watched the film with some of folks who worked at Kodak.
So your idea does just not work.
Kodak didnt make copies so they went the Jamieson Film Company, to make 3 copies.
By 8 p.m .Zapruder had the original and a copy, and handed the other two copies to the Secret Service. https://youtu.be/56yeSMi_Qzg?si=HcONy2ufj7Iv3ecX
There's many problems with scenario.
Disney made animated films. So if you wanted a separate background, you just drew a new background.
Where would get the other copies of the film to multi-plane?
For your theory to work, there needed to be a multi-plane camera in Dallas that day. And technicians to work it. All ready to go. Waiting on standby when you find out some guy named Abraham Z has footage.
Because remember anyone could have taken a picture or film that day. And they did, there was something like 30 films made that day.
The Zapruder film is just the most complete and had the best angle.
https://www.jfk.org/collections-archive/nix-home-movie-2/
That shows the assassination from a different angle and even shows Abraham Zapruder in the background. That's independent confirmation because the FBI didn't get their hands on the Nix film until December.
The film went to Washington DC to be edited. Disney invented the multi-plane camera but by the 1960s the CIA or the FBI could easily have had their own multi-plane camera at their disposal.
When the film was edited into what we see today, it could have been projected onto a screen. The fakers could simply film this "new version" of the assassination using a Brownie camera identical to Zapruder's.
Kodak's 8mm film cameras did not capture images in sharp focus. The blurriness of a second generation film would pass for first generation, and the piece of film would give all the appearance of never having been edited as it was not edited, but merely filmed off a screen (or perhaps copied in a Moviola device.) But the Zapruder film we are allowed to see is not the film Zapruder actually shot.
Zapruder was paid well by Life magazine for the film, and his family was paid even better decades later by the federal government. Their silence was purchased.