Sunday, May 25, 2014

This really is the clincher. This is where the magician used his distraction move to pull the bait and switch. 


There are two totally distinct versions of the clip from the Squad room. The first one appears in 4 Days, and the latter one on appears in 3 Shots. But, in A Year Ago Today, they spliced the two together, and above is where the splice occurred. 

Of course, nothing of the kind was involved in November 1964 when AYAT was first broadcast. I don't know when it was done, but it was definitely closer to today than to the time of the assassination.  

On the left is the version from 3 Shots, as it says. That bystander in the corner on the left is one distinguishing feature. You don't see him in the other one. 

Another key difference is that you don't see the big cop veering right. In 4 Days, the big cop has already begun his turn to the right. But in 3 Shots, you can barely see his hat, and it's like he's going to walk into the lockers. 

I put an arrow to the big cop's hat in 3 Shots on the left. He's not turning right, and he never turns right. In 3 Shots, that's the last frame. It breaks to a newscaster at that point. 

But in 4 Days, it's all about that big cop turning right. He's doing it from the moment we see him, as you see above.

Another big difference that stands out to me is that the linebacker cop on the left in 3 Shots has broader shoulders than the guy on the right in 4 Days. Here's another view of it, except 3 Shots is on the right and 4 Days on the left.




There is another reason why I posted this frame. Look at the man in front of the linebacker cop in each frame, particularly the length of his hair.


Curls/no curls, curls/no curls, curls/no curls, curls/no curls, curls/no curls. Can you feel that Latin rhythm? I wonder if you can dance the Samba to that? 

And don't tell me that it's a different guy because we are talking about one small room at one flash in time, and there's no way a different photographer would have caught a different guy in that spot. It IS a different guy, but not for any innocent reason. They reenacted it. And I don't know exactly how they did it. But, the one with Curly was made years later, perhaps decades later, and the technology had advanced leaps and bounds. It is definitely a different film. 

But, what they did in AYAT, splicing them together, is very crude. And of course, they had to blur it up and speed it up. But here is the splice. This is where they worked their evil magic.



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