Free as a bird still

[JoJo]

Another request from DH, this is from the scene in Free as a Bird where they show the gravestone with the date Sept 12.



I was just about to close it out when I suddenly realized hey... there's a little surprise in this one! Open to debate, oh yes I know that but...

Bumping up the contrast/brightness ratio, what was almost imperceptible, suddenly stands out as what could be... a human figure playing a guitar left handed... Or not.. but.. who knows...

[FlamingPie]

Oh, wow.

[ecenzo1]

Though it's open to subjective interpretation, it certainly can be seen as a left-handed figure playing guitar. At least it looks like that to me.

[Red Lion]

Nice find JoJo. It's subtle but there are a lot of those types clues out there.

[JoJo]

Thanks Redlion, it goes to the question of whether it's the result of deliberate planning or accidental. It's obvious that scene went through some kind of filter, much like a mild version of the Photoshop watercolor filter. Yes, a subliminal embed IMO, and a deliberate one.

And to the question of meaning... Martha runs past the gravestone to.. (?) Any dog owner will recognize that as a dog being called by her master. And Father McKenzie is there, writing the words to a sermon that no one will hear. (yes I know the song was from the Revolver era, but the video was not) Meaning may not "mean" anything to some, but it's very important in works of art going back hundreds of years. The need to hide meaning was an important factor for artists living under repressive kings for example. Ever wonder why those people you see at an art museum stare at the same painting for hours? Heh, they are trying to discern the (hidden) meaning..

[Doc]

As if there might be scads of subliminal imbedded tributes to James Paul. Maybe scads of people subliminally pick this up, subconsciously, but can't quite put there finger on it.
There before you but invisible. Though somehow you know..........
A vague sense...of something...but what.......

[Red Lion]

check out the negative

[DarkHorse]

Look at what you can find by pure accident. We were just looking to post the grave for the date weren't we? Wow! Good find!

[JoJo]

Notice how the hair is distinct in color and outlined. Also the date does double duty as the date and the neck of the guitar. Not an ink blot test here, or a face in the clouds... Ink blot tests are by design meant to not resemble anything, so it's almost impossible for someone to suggest or bias you into believing it looks like something not congruent with your perception. No two people will see the same shape. Likewise with two people looking at shapes in the clouds. A distinct pattern agreed upon by most who look at it, probably is what it is..

Redlion, I think I know what you are getting at, I just flashed to the Bonnie and Clyde car I saw when I was in Nevada a few years ago...

[-Wings-]

Wow, that's pretty cool. I'll have to check that making of the Free as a Bird video documentary on the DVD to see if I can spot it on the tombstone there.

[jarvitronics]

The Beatles - Free As a Bird (FAB)

As we hear the word "home" we see a small group of children emerging from the egg company. There are five children, an older sister, two older brothers, a younger sister (obscured behind the brother on our left), and a youngest brother.




As We hear the phrase "a bird on wings" we see a pretty nurse selling poppies on Penny Lane; if we suppose that she is the bird on wings, then we might conclude that she is Florence Nightingale, the original pretty nurse; the name Florence is derived from Florentius, which means 'to flower; blooming', and a nightingale is, of course, a bird on wings.


(wear your Poppy with pride)


As we stroll down Penny Lane we see the Barber.




The Fireman.




And the Banker; interesting that the banker is symbolized by a baker.




After the childhood stroll down Penny Lane, a grown man (George Harrison) goes to see Dr. Robert.




Then there is a "car crash".




Then, when we hear "home" again, we see that things have gone Helter-Skelter, and someone is high as a kite.




Another "Bird on Wings" is shown in the video; this man is busy working at a typewriter, writing lines of type. The drawers behind him are old-school print shop movable type drawers, and on the table in front of him is a newspaper; it seems that he may have been a typesetter for the Daily Mail. He is a line caster.





(4000 HOLES FOUND in BLACKBURN LANCASHIRE)


Another name for movable type is pi (or pica). In the sixties, newspapers were typeset using a burning-hot melted lead process; you could say the line casting was done with flaming pi. The element symbol for lead is Pb; here is a picture of line casting with Pb:




So then, what is the story with this flaming mag pica pica black-burned line caster singing in the dead of night?

-j

P.S. I wonder how many follicles there are in a pair of sideburns? It really would be a challenge to count them all, as the holes are rather small, but it has been done; the average male face has about 10,000 whiskers including mustache, beard, and sideburns, so now we know about how many holes it took for Royal Albert to fill out his black burns. I suppose it would be about the same number of holes for the black-burned line caster.



-j