Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Without any help from Unger, I am figuring out what happened with the Towner film; figuring out the discrepancy between the frames.  Take a look at this version of the Towner film. The mother and baby are essentially gone; they are washed out.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSqOwCbYwO4#t=30



I have repeatedly watched it, excerpting frames. My goal is to try to capture the changes that take place. Here we start getting an inkling of "her". 


So, the white cloud on the left above her head corresponds to the orange cap of the baby. And the smaller, denser cloud on the other side corresponds to her flicking hand. But look at the monstrosity that is her face. Look at the size of it compared to that of the Fedora Hat Man. How many times bigger is it? 3X bigger? And if you start comparing her neck to his, forget about it. She's a freak. She doesn't really have a neck. It's more like her head is sitting on her chest. There is no tapering at all. Look how his neck tapers, but hers, not at all.  

Let's go for another frame.



Aha! So, here we are also seeing the dark stripe across her face, just as we do on the right below:



I can tell you where in the film the striped frame occurs. It's late in her exposure. It's after the motorcycle cop gets past her. 


So, there she is with her stripe ( and I use the word "she" lightly because she is so big, so geometric, so totally non-human looking compared to the other figures.) Compare the size of her head to that of the other Fedora Man who is in front of the obelisk. I placed a question mark above his head.


Glance your eyes back and forth rapidly between the Fedora Man and the Mother. You still think she is human with a form like that?

But, we have indeed accomplished something. We've discovered where the striped frame comes in, and it occurs at the end of her sweep across the field of the camera, just before she disappears from view. 

So, the less bizarre frame came first, and the more bizarre frame came later, close to the end. 


But, what remains unexplained is why those deformities and distortions occurred at all.  Now, we know when they occur, but we still don't know why they occur. But note that it has nothing whatsoever to do with Youtube or "generation loss" or "compression" or any of the techno-babble that Backes and Burnham spew. And that's because we see it worst in the frames that Robin Unger provided. So, you can't blame Youtube. You can't blame 70 DBI web browsers. That's all rubbish. I say it relates to the way they concocted the Mother and Baby in the first place. 

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