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Thursday Grab Bag: Aliens, Looney Tunes, and More

2/5/2015

33 Comments

 
I have a few random odds and ends for today…

Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on correcting the page proofs for my anthology Foundations of Atlantis, Ancient Astronauts, and Other Alternative Pasts. I find the corrections to be frustrating, both because it forces me to confront my own typographical errors and also because it reminds me that in today’s publishing world, no one actually proofreads anything, and even the most ridiculously obvious typos stand until I correct them. Anyway, in checking some of the text, I have a conundrum that I hope someone reading this may be able to help solve.
Pedro Pizarro, the cousin of the famous conquistador, described the Chachapoyas of Peru as being white-skinned, and this led to many claims about a Caucasian race in Peru. In his description, he gives the following sentence: “Esta gente deste reino del Perú era blanca, de color trigueño, y entre los señores y señoras eran mas blancos como españoles.” In translating the text in 1921, Philip Ainsworth Means rendered the line this way: “The people of this kingdom of Peru were white, swarthy in colour, and among them the Lords and Ladies were whiter than Spaniards.” The trouble is the word “than.” The original Spanish seems to say that the lords and ladies were “whiter, like Spaniards.” But the punctuation doesn’t seem to agree. In modern Spanish, como means “like” or “as.” I can’t find an example of it being used to mean “than.” (For what it’s worth, in botching his translation, Philip Honoré gave it this way: “Most of the great lords and ladies looked like white Spaniards.”) Can anyone with expertise in sixteenth century Spanish tell me whether “than” or “like” might be the better translation?

But at least this is a relatively straightforward problem. I’m sure many of you have seen the more confounding issue of the so-called Roswell Slides. The story has been bouncing around for a while now, and yesterday Nick Redfern weighed in with a collection of words that approximated an article on the subject despite having no new facts, little purpose, and a laxness in its writing that can charitably be attributed to a need to stretch the story to fill a word count: “Maybe we will get the truth of Roswell. Maybe we won’t. Or, maybe, we will get what Ufology always gives us: more questions, more enigmas, and nothing 100 percent solid.”

Redfern’s piece is simply a summary of an earlier press release by Anthony Bragalia asserting that on May 5, astronaut Edgar Mitchell and a bunch of ufologists will take to the stage in Mexico City to show a series of Kodachrome slides taken by a Texas geologist that Bragalia asserts depict an extraterrestrial being. According to Bragalia, an unnamed expert verified that the slides were exposed in 1947 and therefore the humanoid depicted on them is one of the Roswell aliens from the saucer crash:
This humanoid is not a deformed person, mummy, dummy, simian or dead serviceman. It is not a creature that finds its origin on Earth. And given that the slides of this creature were taken the very same year as the Roswell UFO crash; that the appearance of the creature matches the reported appearance of the Roswell crash aliens; and given that the person who was in original possession of the slides was a geologist working the New Mexico desert throughout the 1940’s, it is not a jump or stretch to then conclude that these slides indeed show the corpse of one of the creatures found fallen at Roswell.
I don’t follow the logic, frankly. Is it possible to verify that a slide was exposed in 1947 and not, say, 1948? (According to Bragalia’s later comments, the expert only dated the film stock to 1947, not the image shot with it, but he feels no one would likely use film more than a year after it was purchased. Ha! My grandmother used to stockpile film for decades.) But even if it were, it doesn’t stand to reason that the slides were made in July, at Roswell, or in New Mexico. Nor, frankly, does it follow that a humanoid creature, even if real, would be from another planet and not, say, a genetic freak, a bizarre science experiment, a fairy, or a monster from the civilization within the hollow earth. It’s amazing to see how many people are already looking for ways that the slides could have been fabricated before ever seeing whether the image on the slides (if there even is one) warrants such a conclusion.

Frankly, if I had the only known photograph of a space alien, I might have found a way to get the information and the image to the public a lot sooner, rather than turning it into a months-long circus. But then again, I’m not a famous Mexican paranormal promoter who stands to make a mint off of the media circus, like Jamie Maussan, who is paying for the event.

But speaking of the 1940s: Did anyone watch Marvel’s Agent Carter on Tuesday? I’m lukewarm on the show, which I like in theory a little bit more than in practice. In this week’s episode, Agent Carter and a team of good guys find themselves behind enemy lines in Russia, when they come across a film projector. The projector shows about five seconds of a cartoon that has been altered to include subliminal messages. Since I have an encyclopedic knowledge of Looney Tunes (blame cable in the 1990s for showing Looney Tunes about 10 times a day across the Turner networks, USA, and Nickelodeon), I instantly recognized the brief flash of footage as a scene from the 1942 Merrie Melodies short The Dover Boys at Pimento University, a parody of the Rover Boys book series.
It was an inspired choice because it carefully foreshadows events with the girl the team discovers and provides a mirror for Peggy Carter’s own journey, since in the cartoon those pillars of manly virtue Tom, Dick, and Larry Dover fail to rescue damsel in distress Dainty Dora Standpipe from the evil Dan Backslide, and Dora rescues herself with some serious street-fighting skills while pretending to be a helpless maiden. 

What I wondered, though, is why a Marvel Studios production, part of the Disney empire, would use a Warner Bros. cartoon. A little research found that United Artists, which controlled the short after acquiring it from Associated Artists, which in turn had bought the pre-1949 Looney Tunes from Warner, failed to renew the copyright in 1967, and the film slipped into the public domain. (As for the Looney Tunes, after Turner bought UA and folded into Time Warner, they were eventually reunited with the cartoons Warner Bros. kept.) I suppose this accounts for how a Warner cartoon ended up on a Disney show.

Anyway, I appreciated the added bit of enjoyment recognizing the cartoon provided to the episode.
33 Comments
Matt Mc
2/5/2015 06:09:48 am

About dating the photos, Film stock does have a date on it and depending on the developing lab negatives could, let me stress could, have a date on them. Dated negatives are much more common in film that still photography You however mentioned slides, on a lot of old slides there is a lot of the time a developers stamp that was a rough date (normally the month, perhaps the year) and the negative number on the slide casing. I do not know however if this process was common in 1947 since slides at that time were a very expensive process. It really was not until the mid to late 60's and really the 70's with the invention of the carousel slide projector that slides were used. Thinking about it from a documenting an event stance having slides developed makes little sense at all. The average person would not have been able to afford the cost of having the slides made, The only reason I can think of why a slide would of been used was for presentation but at the time it was still more affordable to make a overhead transparency. That said it is highly doubtful that anything about the age of the slides could be determined with any accuracy, the only thing that could really be determined would be the age of the film stock.

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EP
2/5/2015 06:09:52 am

"Can anyone with expertise in sixteenth century Spanish tell me whether “than” or “like” might be the better translation?"

I don't have such expertise, but my general linguistic instincts immediately suggest that perhaps what is meant is something like "among them the Lords and Ladies were whiter, like [the Lords and Ladies are] among Spaniards". This is just a conjecture, however.

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Byron
2/5/2015 10:36:43 am

That was my read as well...

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Erik G
2/5/2015 06:35:36 am

I tend to agree with EP here. I suspect the sentence should be read as the people were white (as opposed to black or negroid), swarthy (which I seem to remember from other reading as a description given to North Africans), but that among them the lords and ladies were whiter, like Spaniards. After (and probably before) the Reconquista, the Spaniards considered themselves white, Moors and Jews and North Africans of the Mahgreb within or outside Spain were not. 'White' as first used in the sentence would probably now be translated as 'caucasoid'.

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Snarky
2/6/2015 04:02:08 pm

It's against the rules of this forum to agree with EP.

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terry the censor
2/6/2015 04:58:27 pm

Ha! That is definitely not a rule...but I am going to re-use that line (with name changed) elsewhere.

EP
2/6/2015 05:09:06 pm

Then why do all the cool kids do it all the time, Snarky?

EP
2/5/2015 06:44:27 am

The slides allegedly come from one Bernard Ray, who, allegedly, worked with (for?) Silas Newton. Silas Newton is this guy:

http://vault.fbi.gov/silas-newton

"Silas Newton (1887-1972) was a wealthy oil producer and con-man who claimed that he had a gadget that could detect minerals and oil. He was cited as an authority in Frank Scully’s book Behind the Flying Saucers, a work that claimed to report on several UFO crashes in the area of New Mexico. In 1950, Newton said that a flying saucer crashed on land he leased in the Mojave Desert; however, he revised his claim in 1952, saying he never saw a flying saucer but had only repeated comments he heard from others."

Also, there was a Bernard B. Ray who was a minor cinema writer/producer in the 1940s-50s. This is relevant for all the obvious reasons, as well as for some of the reasons mentioned by Matt Mc.

Also, Bernard Ray's name is "Ray Bernard" reversed, which is either the world's most awesome coincidence, or the intrepid UFOlogists are getting trolled hard.

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kal
2/5/2015 07:23:11 am

Those slides are not of an alien body but a hoax by a novice film director. MC is right.

Also I have another translation for that Perru story that makes a heck of a lot more sense! "The statues that they had discovered were white like the Spanish men and women and looked swarthy like the kings and ladies of Spain." Yes, the stone statues there are very pale colored stone. It makes perfect sense it they're statues. They're not describing people. You can go to the web site for the town. It was Spanish colonial. The white statues are in the web site and were left by the natives.

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Kal
2/5/2015 07:40:35 am

Estan gentes astatuas deste reino del Perú era blanca, de color trigueño, y entre los señores y señoras eran mas blancos como españoles.

Those tall statues at the region in Peru are white and depict men and woman like the caucasian white Spanish men and ladies.

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666
2/5/2015 07:47:20 am

more questions, more enigmas, and nothing 100 percent solid

Ah, that lovely and wonderful labyrinthine maze of mystification, so beloved by lovers of ineffable curiosities.

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UFOs are REAL
2/5/2015 07:59:22 am

film stock has geometric symbols that repeat in 20 year intervals.
film footage from 1967 has symbols like those for batches made
in 1947. this helps to authenticate film footage. there is a system.

http://www.ufoevidence.org/Cases/CaseSubarticle.asp?ID=848

"It's important to first establish just what Kodak's position is concerning the footage. The following is taken from a press release that Kodak's Marketing Planning Manager P.G. Milson (not some flunky) sent to the outside world. This is the only official public Kodak release of information so far on this subject.

"We have been asked to confirm the age of a piece of film know as the Roswell film...We have seen sections of either the film or its projection leader in three Kodak locations: UK, Hollywood and Denmark...Conclusions...

1)In our process we put a code on the edge of the film which repeats every 20 years.

2)The symbols we have seen on the Roswell film samples suggest that the film was manufactured in either 1927,1947 or 1967. ( This memo substantiates that the film could have been shot in 1947 so at least that one fact is secure and we now know that they saw more than just a leader but the real footage. Kodak isn't going out on a limb for this crazy happening but they can't dispute their findings, either)

3) We are therefore, unable to categorically confirm when the film was manufactured (This is a hedge if I ever heard one)

4) It should be remembered that even if the age of the film manufacture is confirmed, this does not necessarily indicate that the film was shot and processed in the same year...(the rest is disclaimer and of no consequence)"

This information should establish just what Kodak saw and what they didn't see and also that Santilli did do what he said he did, which was have the film dated.

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EP
2/5/2015 08:09:11 am

The comments in brackets reek of desperate stubbornness.

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666
2/5/2015 08:12:56 am

Not the very same Santilli mentioned in this documentary...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alien-Autopsy-The-True-Story/dp/B000G8P1HI/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top


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666
2/5/2015 08:33:42 am

On Youtube - probably not well-known outside the UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LgUFx8xv8

666
2/5/2015 09:03:55 am

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2/5/2015 02:19:20 pm

The reference to "projection leader" and "footage" indicates the letter referenced above is about film used for a moving picture not slides. The comments about the coding sounds very familiar to me and since it does specifically mention the "Roswell film" it makes think this letter is associated with the Alien Autopsy documentary from the 80's. I'm too lazy to double check that point but I'm certain about it referring to a movie not slides.

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Matt Mc
2/5/2015 08:19:30 am

I can tell you that information is incorrect for one simple reason,

The press release say that the two slide are on Kodachrome film.

Kodachrome film was not introduced until 1935 and the commercial version was (kodachrome commercial) was not released until 1947, so this statement shows the lack of research in the cited article.

"The symbols we have seen on the Roswell film samples suggest that the film was manufactured in either 1927,1947 or 1967"

While my experience in film restoration is in motion film and not still film, the manufacture marks for Kodak 8, 16, and 35mm film depends on the stock itself. So there is a good chance looking at Kodak practices that a Kodachrome film stock could and most likely would have different dating symbols that the 16mm film. Also it does not prevent someone from purchasing film stock from 1967 and claim it was shot in 1947.

Now Kodak does use a series of symbols repeating every 20 to help date stock, but that is only identifies when the film was slit and punched. There is no way to accurately tell when the film was developed. Film Stock and Undeveloped film can stay useable for an undetermined amount of time and it is possible to by used Kodachrome film stock from 1947. Just recently, as some might of see, there was a whole series of undeveloped and unexposed film discovered from WWI, which was right a the beginning of photographers using film stock over film plates, that were recently developed and they provided excellent quality picture that showed little deterioration.

There are just too many factors when it comes to determining the age of a piece of film that nothing can truly be established without first providing province of the film in question.







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666
2/5/2015 08:21:40 am

It's nothing more than a rehash of a debunked story.
The same thing exists in different "mysteries", like for example the crystal skulls.

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Matt Mc
2/5/2015 08:30:45 am

for once I agree with you

I remember they tried to pull the same Film from 1947 thing with the Alien Autopsy footage that FOX did the TV special on. In the long run I believe all they could say was the films was from either 1947 1967 or 1987, If memory server correct they however where able to tell that the camera used was no used by the military at the time and the clocks and some of the other things in the room where manufactured later.

Also if anyone claim that they can detect traces of the emulsion used in developing they are completely false, since the chemicals would of cause the film and image to be completely destroyed over time. There is a reason the film is washed after developing.

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EP
2/5/2015 08:33:31 am

Don't encourage him ;)

Matt Mc
2/5/2015 08:41:30 am

I would also like to note that it was not uncommon for photographers and low budget movie studios to purchase old film stock from manufacturers and distributors at low cost. While I never did any professional film restoration beyond telecine work myself a lot of my peers would note in doing restoration before the telecine process that a film made in 1978 was using film stock that was made in 1968. So the practice of professionals using older film stock is and was commonplace by people who either had little money or wanted to save money (in the film world think of the Roger Corman and AIP)

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EP
2/5/2015 09:27:08 am

As the person who actually knows what he's talking about when it comes to these matters, do you have any thoughts on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL0MvHpieaE

Matt Mc link
2/5/2015 09:52:34 am

Well not much really.

There was a ton of digital manipulation and color correction of the photos shown which is common. They did not show the two photos in question really but what little was shown gives me the impression that the person shooting the the travel photos and the "alien" photos was not the same person. The "alien" photo looks like it was taken by either someone who did not know how to adjust the Fstop and iris or someone who deliberately shot it so it looked more obscured (which is suspicious). The framing also appeared to be vastly different again either it was a different photographer or deliberately shot poorly to obscure. I am speculating however because without seeing the two pics presented in the same quality as the other it is hard to make a real comment about that.

The tools he was using appear to be correct and so was the software and he was careful to use gloves but I could not tell if he was in a clean room or not, which in restoration and cleaning of photos is something you want to do to prevent damage or scratching from dust.. It did show however how easy it is to remove a slide casing, and how easy it could be to remove a casing from one slide and place it on another. They did not explain the dating process so I cannot comment on that, my impression was that since the film was found with slides from the time between the late 30's and late 40's the assumption was that the slides where from the same time period.

Also what was not explained was why these photos where examined in the first place. There are so many families that have travel photos, why were these slides from these people selected to scan? Is it just a coincidence that they contained the two slides in question? How was it determined that they where from Roswell, they guy who worked there did not say anything of value. How do we know this was not a model or something else?

Not very convincing at all but it was well produced which is not normal in my mind. It seems like this was made to either generate interest to raise money or to sell something.

For me it has fraud written all over it,

EP
2/5/2015 10:08:36 am

Adam Dew, the guy who owns Dew Media, Inc., which manages Slidebox Media LLC, claims that his friend's sister found the footage while cleaning out the house of a deceased couple (the Rays, presumably) in 1989. Allegedly, they became interested in looking at the slides carefully after noticing that some of them are photos of famous people.

Apparently, the Rays left no heirs (Texas still holds some unclaimed money of Bernerd Ray). So no one to claim that the slides were stolen, and no one to take the fall for faking them.

The whole thing is shady as hell.

Matt Mc
2/5/2015 11:21:08 am

Its gets better, there are claims of computer hacking, bribery ect....

http://www.sott.net/article/289463-UFO-researchers-computers-hacked-over-mysterious-Roswell-slides

whole thing is hilarious and sad. Do the seriously think the the Govt. was hacking their computers and then trying to intimidate them into stopping the investigation? I think I can safely say that if from some strange reason a "three letter agency" was going to hack these guys they would never even had known.

I admit to never really following the UFO think but this stuff makes Wolters claims of Goct. persecution look pretty sane.

EP
2/5/2015 11:28:14 am

I believe *this* time they are accusing each other of hacking and other improprieties.

But yeah, at their worst they are both more paranoid and more gullible than Wolter could ever be.

Case in point:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/roswell-footage-video-claims-to-show-aliens-being-carried-around-area-51-10022370.html

Clay
2/5/2015 08:39:54 am

Webster's New Explorer Spanish-English Dictionary defines trigueño as "light brown (of hair)". Diccionario Everest (in Spanish) defines trigueño as "color de trigo; entre moreno y rubio; se dice de mullato". My translation of this would be "wheat-colored; between brunette and blond; said of mulattos". To me, "having wheat-colored or light brown hair" makes more sense in the context than "swarthy".

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EP
2/5/2015 09:17:25 am

Correction: The name of the alleged photographer as BernErd Ray, not BernArd Ray.

Bernerd A. Ray was a geologist who worked in New Mexico in the 1940s. He was married to Hilda Ray, to whom the recovery of the slides from the estate of some third party was orignially attributed early on in what is now over a year and a half of ever-changing claims.

The whole thing is so stupid that I'm no longer even in the mood to explore it further.

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terry the censor
2/5/2015 03:50:49 pm

The whole Roswell slides biz is very mucky. So many things point to a hoax, mainly the lack of established provenance, but also the uncritical attitude of the investigators and promoters.

I think Braglia and the UFO blogs are focusing too much on the dating of the slides. The unexamined assumption seems to be that photographs are proof of the specific biology -- species and planet of origin -- of the thing in the photo! But we can't even know if the body is organic just by looking at a photo.

It's stupid.

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expat link
2/6/2015 04:30:33 am

You are correct that, in the publishing world today, nobody proof-reads except a computer algorithm -- famous for allowing homophones such as "poured over" for "pored over."

It is also true that, technically, there's no such thing as a typographical error. The term belongs to the time when a typographer set pages in hot type and was prone to errors that were not the fault of either the author or the editor. These days, a "typographical error" is just an "error."

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kal
2/7/2015 07:45:18 am

As for those slides from Alien Autopsy, I am familiar with that show, and others like it, and can tell those slides are fakes, or props even. Studios have money to use old film.

But what really should be obvious to everyone, even the fringe, is there was no UFO crash at Roswell and therefore no alien bodies. The crash was that of a spy craft, reported as a weather balloon, but it was a spy craft. The whole saucer thing comes from cold war films and paranoia, and apparently a mistaken newspaper story.

But with studios and TV and fakers, you'd think by now with modern stuff and makeup they'd be able to have a full on clear UFO landing and contact hoax complete with found footage close ups of aliens.

Brown hair does more more sense than swarthy.

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JLH
2/9/2015 04:30:48 am

No expertise in 16th century Spanish, but I'll opine anyway.

I think the key is actually "mas" rather than "como." The phrase "entre los señores y señoras eran mas blancos como españoles" seems to offer a comparison between the men and women being described and Spaniards. Something like "mas que," i.e., "eran mas blanco que españoles."

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