. . . . Just FYI; check out #90.
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Look at the distortion on Aug. 5 right above Obama’s announcement.
I work with a guy who’s been printing newspapers for over half a century. He showed me how they did the linotype. They used metal letters, sort of like the old typewriters had the metal letters which impacted the ink ribbon to leave the letter on the paper. When they typed a letter on the linotype machine it released a metal letter from a cache which fell into place in a line of letters. When the line was done the metal letters were secured together with hot lead. So each line was its own specially-made “stamp”.
The lines were placed one above the other inside a metal frame. Everything had to be very tight. And then the small frames were held together inside a frame that was the size of the page. That frame was placed on the press and the papers were pressed up against that inked frame to make the image on the paper.
So when you see the frames on the page that’s exactly what it was - a metal frame.
If you look on this paper you’ll see that the announcements are uninterrupted going down - just one line of type following another - until an ad breaks up the continuity.
Some of the lines don’t show up clearly. I imagine that’s normal when microfilms are made. But the EXTRA lines we see would have to come from the microfilm machine or from a copy machine. Vertical lines could come from wear and tear of the reader on the films. I’m not so sure what would cause horizontal lines.
Maybe somebody who’s worked with microfilm could help us out on that.
But the placement of a horizontal line right before and after Obama and the Asing announcement, coupled with the distortion on just the words right above that top horizontal line do look fishy to me. We know the horizontal line is not from the frames because it actually crosses out some of the words on the far right side of the page.
Just eye-balling it, the whole left-hand column doesn’t look square with the rest of the columns.
Clue... forget the microfilm.... actual old newspapers from that date...that will bust Barry.
. . . . Just FYI; check out #90.
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Yes. It’s the lines that give it away....Look at HGTV the header for several programs use fake ad pages....They use the lines as they appeared in the old time papers. The lines on these two are a dead give away that the announcements were altered.
Adds are created differently than the news....”strippers” cut and paste the ads in place creating the lines.
Yeah, the Obama newspaper announcements look like they have the tell-tale signs of being cut and paste jobs.
Linotype would have been used in 1961.
Linotype machines were phased out in the 70s and replaced by offset printing, which used computer-produced copy that was cut, waxed, and adhered to a mock-up of the page, which was then photographed. The full-sized negative was then used to produce the final print.
Were it not for the fact that the horizontal line extends across all columns, not just the one with the Obama birth announcement, I would strongly suspect that the Obama announcement was cut and pasted.
However, that line does reach across columns. No way to tell from here what caused it. Once again, we’d have to see an original newsprint of that date to know.
The Hawaii newspapers almost certainly keep originals in their morgues, but who has access?