The Most Important Film of All Time: 26.6 Seconds by Abraham Zapruder

The Daily BEast ^ | 11/22/2015 | Ted Gioia

[JDoutrider]

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Everything changed in the aftermath of that moment -- captured in frame 313 of Zapruder's home movie.

Boomer arrogance? Laziness?

What actually changed?

And what did the film clip do or cause?

[Stosh]

Didn’t see Neil Armstrong landing on the moon among the candidates.

Of course that would make America look good, and we can’t have that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4

[Borges]

Candidates for what? This is a one off article about the impact the Zapruder film had on American film culture.

[Stosh]

“What is the most influential film of all time?”

I thought that was the first line in the article posted.

[GunRunner]

We know what happened. Anyone with doubts about the narrative can read Bugliosi's book, which essentially confirms that the Warren Report was mostly correct. Oswald did it, acted alone, and was executed by a crazy Kennedy fan/mob wannabe.

Much like Wikileaks debunked the 9/11 truthers once and for all, we now have 50 years of history with not one one shred of evidence to any conspiracy to confirm it.

[Defiant]

when I try to pinpoint a turning point in our attitudes toward violence—whether on film, in journalism, or in real life—I keep going back to Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963.

Pretty weak hypothesis. There were millions of Americans involved in live combat in WW2 only 18 years earlier, and if you've ever seen the pictures in Time and Life magazines from WW2, the pictures are often very graphic. Burnt Japs running out of caves, piles of dead Germans. I don't think the graphic images of JFK would have been a singular turning point. His death, coinciding with the baby boomers coming of age and a general relaxation of morals and standards, combined to give us realistic violence.

[Auntie Mame]

Am I correct in noticing that Jackie is lucky to have not been hit?

[mfish13]

And if you see the whole length of the film it ends with a quick look behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll. Nothing is there.

[Oratam]

It’s maddening that the first bullet hits Kennedy just as a large highway sign comes between Zapruder and the president.

[newfreep]

One of Seinfeld's best scenes.Ever!

[GunRunner]

Not true. Frame 224 is the first hit (2nd bullet fired) and while most of his head and body are still behind the sign, BOTH of his hands are visible and you can see them start to react to the first shot through the neck.

Frame 224 also proves there was a single bullet that went through Kennedy's neck and hit Connolly because you can not only see Connolly's position in the car (turned to the right), but his reaction to being hit and his collar flipping out as the bullet passes through him and hitting the collar.

It's all there.

[Oztrich Boy]

Only by the shooter on the grassy knoll

[Ditter]

I have seen the film many times but never that slowly. He is shot in the neck first and Jackie responds to him then he is hit on the head.