Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film (1998) (TV)

Writer:

H.D. Motyl (writer)

Genre:

Documentary | History

Plot:

Abraham Zapruder's home-camera footage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is treated to digital re-mastering...

Plot Keywords:

Assassination | John F Kennedy | Kennedy Assassination | Kennedy Family | Texas

Cast

Peter Dean	...	Narrator (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
James 'Ike' Altgens	...	Himself (archive footage)
Joseph Barabe	...	Himself (McCrone Associates)
Glen A. Bennett	...	Himself (archive footage)
Hugh Betzner	...	Himself (archive footage)
Charles Brehm	...	Himself (archive footage)
Howard Brennan	...	Himself (archive footage)
Gloria Calvery	...	Herself (archive footage)
Phil Chamberlain	...	Himself (Kodak, Dallas)
Mary Dickerson	...	Herself (archive footage)
John Doland	...	Himself (archive footage)
Robert Edwards	...	Himself (archive footage)
Amos Euins	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jack Franzen	...	Himself (archive footage)
Jeff Franzen	...	Himself (archive footage)
Mary J. Franzen	...	Herself (archive footage)
Jack Harrison	...	Himself (Kodak, Dallas)
Georgia Hendrix	...	Herself (archive footage)
George W. Hickey	...	Himself (archive footage)
Karan Hicks	...	Herself (archive footage)
Jean Hill	...	Herself (archive footage)
Gloria Holt	...	Herself (archive footage)
Stella Jacob	...	Herself (archive footage)
Adam King	...	Himself (King Visual Technology)
Samuel A. Kinney	...	Himself (archive footage)
Paul E. Landis	...	Himself (archive footage)
Alan Lewis	...	Himself (National Archives)
Mary Moorman	...	Herself (archive footage)
Todd Murphy	...	Himself (There TV)
John D. Ready	...	Himself (archive footage)
Emory P. Roberts	...	Himself (archive footage)
Irwin Schwarz	...	Himself (Zapruder's partner)
James Silverberg	...	Himself (attorney, LMH Co.)
Marilyn Sitzman	...	Herself (Zapruder's assistant)
Richard Stolley	...	Himself (LIFE Magazine editor)
James Tague	...	Himself (archive footage)
Tina Towner	...	Herself (archive footage)
Les Waffen	...	Himself (National Archives)
Phillip L. Willis	...	Himself (archive footage)
Rosemary Willis	...	Herself (archive footage)
Louis Steven Witt	...	Himself (archive footage)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

MPI Teleproductions

Goofs:

Factual errors: When the explanation of the "double eight" system (the format the Zapruder film was shot in) is given, the graphic shows the second row of frames going in the same direction as the first row. When the supply and take-up reels are interchanged to expose the second row of frames, the film is traveling in the opposite direction.

Movie Connections:

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An incredible documentary

This is as much a documentary as it is history. The restoration and care of the film is well documented, and then it is shown in the clearest resolution ever seen. Obviously, the most historically significant piece of motion picture film ever seen.

The film was not seen in public as a motion picture until the Jim Garrison trail of Clay Shaw brought it out of the vaults of Time-Life. The Warren Commission only saw slides which did not accurately show the head motion of the fatal shot since the FBI had put some of the slides into the carousel in the wrong order.

After bootleg copies were shown on college campuses, it became obvious that there were factors to the fatal shot that fueled the fires of possible conspiracy when it was readily apparent that the final shot was at very close range and not consistent the with downward angle from a "sixth floor" shooter.

Some researchers, after years of painstaking searching for details, have concluded that there are possibilities that even the official Zapruder film is not as reliable a source as the undamaged copies made that need to be studied as well.

Regardless of your views of the assassination, as brutal as the images are, they are truly history that every American should be aware is available to see for themselves.