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From: BOB SHELL <76750.2717@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 97 18:19:02 EST
Fwd Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 01:14:05 -0500
Subject: Comments on Discovery programs

All week I have been hearing from people who watched the programs on UFOs on the
Discovery channel.  I do not get Discovery, so I have not seen the programs
myself, but would like to comment on some of the things apparently said in the
one about the Alien Autopsy film.  If information was forwarded to me
incorrectly, then I would hope that some who sees this will correct me.

One of my correspondents has pointed out that the programs were originated in a
studio near the Pentagon by something called Four Winds Production Group, and
suggests this may be another govt front.  I don't know, so I forward this
suggestion FWIW.  Someone in the area may want to look into this.

I hear that Mr. McGovern, dean of aged cameramen, was on there once again giving
his "it would have been shot in color" rap.  Well, it just happens that the
Kodak Handbook, 1945 edition (current in 1947) specifically says that surgical
procedures should be filmed in black and white.  This book was the "Bible" of
the working photographer/cinematographer, both military and civilian.  It also
specifically recommends using Super XX film for this filming.  So much for the
"it would have been in color" argument.  Additionally, according to _16-Mm Sound
Motion Pictures : A Manual for the Professional and the Amateur_ by William H.
Offenhauser, 1949 edition, color motion picture film for use with 3200K
artificial lights (tungsten light sources, such as light bulbs, flood lights,
etc.) had just been introduced.  So in 1947 such film did not exist, and filming
indoors under artificial light could only be done with daylight balanced color
film with a conversion filter, which eats up a hell of a lot of light.  This
would have reduced the effective film speed of the already incredibly slow color
films to an unusable level.  Apparently the TV program followed McGovern's
discourse on "it would have been in color" with some footage of an actual
surgical procedure to prove his point ---- in black and white!!!!

According to several issues of The Kodak Salesman, a bulletin for salesmen and
dealers in Kodak products, there was a serious shortage of 16 mm motion picture
film of all types as early as April/May of 1947.  This could have reduced the
variety of films readily available for jobs, and reinforces "Jack's" claims that
they complained about film choice all the time but had to use what they were
given.

People have called me paranoid for saying that Kodak may not have been dealing
with me in good faith.  I have suggested that Kodak has close ties to the US
military and US govt.  A letter written by T.J. Hargrave, President of Eastman
Kodak Company on August 20, 1945 and sent to all Kodak dealers has this
statement in it: "Our operation of one of the three large-scale plants in the
atomic-bomb project has, for instance, just been disclosed."  What Kodak ties
and projects have not been disclosed?

There is a lot more material I have gathered with the help of many real
researchers, and I hope some day to find a publisher with enough courage to let
me write the real story of the Alien Autopsy film.

Bob Shell