Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

No, Backes, YOU are the fucking idiot. You can't blame it on generation loss from repeated replication. No JFK motorcade film has been duplicated more than the Zapruder film, and we see it in excellent form on Youtube. Like here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU83R7rpXQY 

I just crudely did a Print Screen from Youtube to get this:

It's not bad. We see Kennedy trying to cough up that bullet. We see Connally reacting to being shot. It's bright. It's sunny. There's no darkness. The Zapruder film is infinitely more popular than the Towner film, so in all likelihood, there were many more generations of copies involved with this than the other. 

Backes, are you alleging that the reason why the doorway is black in the Towner film is because the generational copying turned it black? That originally we could see all the figures from the Altgens photo including Doorway Man, but that the copying process resulted in "contrast buildup" and "generation loss" which resulted in a black doorway? Is that what you're saying?

On Wikipedia, they give this example of generation loss. Notice that the loss affects the whole image. It doesn't just blacken a small area like a doorway.

 It hasn't gained blackness; it's lost blackness. But, this is what it says about the digital realm:

Used correctly, digital technology can eliminate generation loss. Copying a digital file gives an exact copy if the equipment is operating properly. This trait of digital technology has given rise to awareness of the risk of unauthorized copying. Before digital technology was widespread, a record label, for example, could be confident knowing that unauthorized copies of their music tracks were never as good as the originals.

It goes on to say that it is important not to use compressed images. Then it says:

In digital systems, several techniques, used because of other advantages, may introduce generation loss and must be used with caution. However, copying a digital file itself incurs no generation loss--the copied file is identical to the original, provided a perfect copying channel is used.

Keeping in mind the example of generation loss that they showed us above, do you think it's likely that the dark doorway in this Towner frame is due to generation loss? 

 Here's how it's going to be, Backes: Any time you start spewing your techno-babble, I'm going to call you on it to demonstrate that you don't know what you're talking about, that you're just full of shit. And you know what else you're full of? You know.