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  • Black and White Film

    I've seen it before, and again,tonight watching the ABC piece on Kennedy's assassination. But what reason is it for that really odd black and white film? You know which one I mean. The B&W that looks layered for perspective, that gives an outline for objects. It is like the contrast is so low, that there is no texture on objects.

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    One article on the subject:
    www.filmthreat.com/Features.asp?Id=788

    Much of the continuing fascination with the Zapruder film is the visual quality, or perhaps the lack thereof. Zapruder had no clue how to operate the camera and it shows: the picture is terribly centered, with the motorcade mostly occupying the bottom third of the frame, and the muddy Kodachrome II safety film is a little out-of-focus. The film is also silent, though it does not take an overactive imagination to hear the sounds of gunfire and the screams of the onlookers as the president's skull explodes in a sickly burst of blood that looks curiously amber-colored on Zapruder's film. The film's hopelessly amateur appearance clearly makes it look like an accidental glimpse to tragedy, thus making it all the more shocking (where were the professional cameramen at the time?), and this unclear quality would later serve to fuel endless conspiracies regarding who shot the president and from where the bullets came.

    And a really interesting article on the history of the film footage itself, and the man who took it:
    mcadams.posc.mu.edu/organ2.htm

    --Kenn

    www.kennhoekstra.com

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