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But the film was DEVELOPED in 1947........

posted 16 years ago by will7370
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Despite all of the people putting this film down as a hoax, they still haven't been able to explain how the autopsy footage was physically on celluloid examined and *VERIFIED* by Kodak technicians as being 50 years old and developed in 1947. The documentary shows very clearly the code symbols on the leader of the film (a circle and a triangle) that Kodak used back then to indicate the year the film was developed. Sure, you could put those symbols on a fake film (if you were even aware that Kodak did that back then), but you would be putting them on NEW celluloid. Even if unexposed movie film from that era was still around and available for exposure, it would still not be usable due to deterioration of the chemicals over time. The fact that the autopsy was physically on 50 year-old celluloid, and developed around the same time, is pretty convincing for me.

[–] Squonkamatic 16 years ago

Not exactly: The film stock was made in the 1940s but when it was exposed or developed is not ascertained by the Eastman house idiot I mean representative featured on the program -- the dating code used on the frames has to do with when the stock was manufactured, NOT when it was processed. And since Mr. Santilli also came clean and admitted that the whole thing was a hoax I am not sure what else there is to be said. But just for the sake of completeness, from the Wiki reference page for Alien Autopsy:

"According to Santilli, a set was constructed in the living room of an empty flat in Rochester Square, Camden Town, London. John Humphreys, an artist and sculptor, was employed to construct two dummy alien bodies over a period of three weeks, using casts containing sheep brains set in raspberry jam, chicken entrails and knuckle joints obtained from S.C. Crosby Wholesale Butchers in Smithfield meat market, London. Humphreys also played the role of the chief scientist undertaking the examination, in order to allow him to control the effects being filmed ..."