You know it is my contention that they used the Willis frame on the left (or one similar to it) to fashion the image of Roy Lewis on the right in the Altgens photo.
Whether you agree with me or not about that, we can use the frame on the left to get a sense about the size and shape of Roy Lewis' body. He was a big guy. So, what is that small shamrock-shaped thing below his head on the right? That's where his body should be, right? His head wasn't just floating in space, was it? It did have a body underneath it, did it not? So, why don't we see more than we're seeing of it in the Altgens photo? How did it get reduced to that small, shamrock-shaped configuration totally lacking in arms, shoulders, etc. Remember that Roy Lewis was way in front of Doorman, and therefore, no part of him could be covered up by Doorman. So, why aren't we seeing Roy Lewis' body properly?
It's because his body, like his head, was behind the west wall and out of view to Altgens. They just pieced him into the Altgens photo in two pieces: the profile view of his head from Willis and that weird shamrock-shaped thing below to represent his body, and I don't know where they got that from. What's going on there is that they put that weird-shaped thing in there with the expectation that the mind would get enough data from it to subconsciously register it as a body. It doesn't really work, but if you take it all in as a whole, you don't notice it. It just gets processed. It just gets summed into being a whole person, where the mind is filling in what's missing.
It was very clever, but still, it was awfully arrogant for them to think that they could do this and get away with it.
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