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Yanis Tzortzis
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Greece
Registered: Aug 2005

posted September 11, 2008 07:10 AM

Just saw this auction on eBay and am thrilled-both by the item (if it's true that is!)and the price!!
Is there a chance that the Zapruder film was copied (for I doubt that it is the original!)or is it a hoax???
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/8MM-ZAPRUDER-FILM-OF-JOHN-F-KENNEDY-JFK-ASSASSINATION_W0QQitemZ110288392272QQihZ001QQcategoryZ13900QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Steven J Kirk
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posted September 11, 2008 07:21 AM

It won't be the original. The Zapruder family hold the rights so you can't reproduce it. Not worth the money, even if an old copy. IMO.

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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted September 11, 2008 08:12 AM

Per Wikipedia, the Zapruder original is in the National Archives. It was seized as evidence and the Federal government eventually settled with Zapruder's heirs for 16 Million Dollars. (Swwweet!, makes $2,995 buy it now for a print seem a bargain!)

I always wonder what was on the rest of that roll of film. Did some poor kid never get to see his birthday party because it wound up in the National Archives?

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Wade Epler
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From: Lancaster, Pa USA
Registered: May 2008

posted September 14, 2008 01:37 PM

If I remember correctly, Abraham Zapruder had just purchased the camera, so he only shot some footage in his front yard of some flowers to 'break in' the camera-a B&H director's series. That camera is now in posession of the Smithsonian. That model took regular 8mm spools and a couple of different cartridge designs. It would be interesting to know what kind Zapruder elected to purchase. It's my understanding that the footage was shot poorly as the film wasn't properly loaded. Loads of info on every nuance of the 'cameras of assasination' available in the Warren report and online. Especially interesting is the work done to determine if the photo of Oswald holding the rifle was altered in anyway.

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Yanis Tzortzis
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Greece
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posted September 14, 2008 05:18 PM

So it's a copy,and have more copies been made I wonder? Btw it sold for US $1,050?

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted September 14, 2008 05:49 PM

I don't know, maybe it's just me, but doesn't it seem kind of gruesome and morbid to watch, over and over again, JFK getting shot?

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