8mm Forum: JFK assassination Zapruder Film...on film??!!

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Posted by Yanis Tzortzis (Member # 434) on 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

Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on 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.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on 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?

Posted by Wade Epler (Member # 1158) on 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.

Posted by Yanis Tzortzis (Member # 434) on 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?

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on 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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