Hi! Fellow theorists.
I'm Matt, you might or might not know me from my work (Matt's JFK Drive, F.M Bell Film Stabilization...etc).
Well, i'm here today to announce a project of mine called the "Dallas Cinema Associates Archival Project", it basically consists of archiving and restoring the infamous compilation film made by 18 people who filmed the motorcade in Dallas with their color home movie cameras.
Not only does it show an alleged "second rifle from the TSBD" but also it has great footage of the motorcade, and it was used in a few documentaries, sadly, the copies we have today that were digitized are...well..sub-par..and not that high quality, and sure, there is the Robert Groden version without text during the motorcade footage, but that is a completely different edit with various "zoomed or enhanced" scenes.
So? Are there more copies, Matt? YES, there are! but they're also kind of shit. Really. if you look up the remaining copies on youtube, every copy has compression, loss of detail, and none are "usable". And ALL copies except the Robert Groden and JFK 1991 copies are a bit dark, the darkest film being the Jack Martin film which is very dark, looks like it was shot at night but nope, that's day.
So. what do i propose? Gathering the most copies of this film we can find and make a restored version. Or maybe even rescan the film.
This film really needs to re-surface again, because it has been overshadowed by the Zapruder Film, Nix, Muchmore, Y'know, the usual line-up.
I already have gathered some copies in my JFK video drive, and i know there are some documentaries which use the DCA film.
So, what do you guys think?