Post edited 7:13 pm – May 31, 2011 by Nosfer

Note the time change for this episode, one hour earlier than the typical time.

In this episode, Josh Gates of DT "fame" joins Grant, Jason, Britt (yay), Amy, Dave, and Adam (double yay) to investigate a few things around Pearl Harbor…notably a haunted hanger and it seems also the Arizona Memorial.

I will say no more at this point as I've already registered my disgust at their doing this.

If you've missed any of the Season 7 episodes, you're in luck because there is an all-day marathon running just prior to this.  (triple yay)

Drinking Situations: Any of Britt's typical BS about shadows and sounds.

Now it's the power company that says that anything over 0.5 (0.7?) is bad!

"uh, uh, uh, Hey Beavis, this must be what it's like to be Godzilla and you're stomping on Tokyo". Huh, huh.

Uh yeah, cool.

Revenant said:

The show…meh.  The evidence will be interesting because beyond the magnificent rolling flashlight gag…the show was really a bunch of nothing…

And we recall how much begging and pleading Amy did at Buffalo Central with the SFT.  But it looked a lot better when they edited out all the dead time.  I guess we can have an SRFT (Stupid Rolling Flashlight Trick) as a variation on the SFT.

Cylindrical object on flat surface…and it rolls.  Wow!  Notice that the bench does seem to be higher on the sides by a slight amount, possibly wear from people tending to sit more toward the center.  And, of course, we again do not see simultaneous shots of the questions and the flashlight, we just have footage of the light going on and footage of the questions being asked, but all separate.

Regarding the rolling, Milli asked "Did they put the flashlight in the exact same place?" 

What do you mean exact same place?  Yes, I suppose they did since it appears that the second roll is a replay of the first roll…

They first show us the three flashlights and the recorder on the bench.  The flashlights are mostly equidistant in the closeup shot.  Then they show the scene where one of the lights (left most one) comes on, they are still spaced almost equidistant.  The flashlight in question is in front of the 4th "open area" between the back slats (counted from the left)  3:06 to 3:09 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..vVHVrJPGfg

Now look at 3:47/8 just before it rolls the first time.  The make no mention of going over to the flashlight yet look how far apart the left and center lights are now.  The left light then rolls and bumps into the middle flashlight, the lens capturing the IR camera reflection JUST before it hits causing it to reflect some light or appear to come on (but it doesn't)

At 4:04 Britt "resets" the flashlight.  He places it quite a ways to the left, about where it appeared to start rolling from the "first time"  The center flashlight appears to be a little askew, though…did they try this a couple times to get it right for the "final take"?

At 4:09-4:10 we get the "second roll" including the little bit of flare just before the rolling light hits the middle one.

And also there was the Special Events Planner who talked to the person and escorted him out only to later find that the security footage only showed her and not the person that she was talking to.

Wouldn't that have been neat footage to show GH and us, the viewers?  It would have been.  I must have missed it.

That also indicates that there is coverage of at least part of the camera all the time by cameras.  But not the place where Kramer is?  That's too bad.  Of all the rotten luck.  This would have been a perfect opportunity to show us their ability to use two pieces of equipment in support of each other.  Aim a stationary camera at Kramer AND also put out maybe one of those handy-dandy geophones that Britt invented (cough!)

Post edited 8:57 pm – June 3, 2011 by Nosfer
Post edited 8:58 pm – June 3, 2011 by Nosfer

Just captured and superimposed the two frames dealing with the flashlight.  The one titled "1" is the flashlight when it is doing the on and then off sequence.  The one titled "2" is when they are looking at it just before it starts to roll.  Note that at no time between the two did they go over to the flashlight nor say that it had moved.  As you can see, the recorder (farthest to the right) and the rightmost flashlight do not move at all between scenes.  The middle flashlight moves a bit to the right indicating that there has been some change over on that bench.

Now, after the end of each roll I captured a frame.  The problem was capturing the right frame since they were moving flashlights around thus lighting changed somewhat as did the person standing to the right of the camera but I think I captured close to the same set of frames from the end of the first roll and the end of the second roll and the odds of two separate times having a moving flashlight and moving person coincide are pretty slim.  The positions of everything on the bench are indentical.  Pretty precise ghost wouldn't you say?

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