A deep investigation into a single frame of film—and a bizarre mystery that’s lasted for decades.
We adjusted the levels on the most sophisticated stereo we could find to isolate that part at the very end of the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever” where a distorted voice supposedly says, “I buried Paul.” A generation before us, that short clip of audio fortified conspiracy theories that Paul McCartney had actually died in 1966. We studied a 1973 book called Subliminal Seduction by Wilson Bryan Key, about how covert messages could be deployed as sales tools.
“What’s used there, those quick shots, were the tests that Dick Smith did on Linda Blair’s double ,” he said. “She had an all-white face and red lips, and I didn’t like it as the makeup for the demon, but viewed that way, as a quick cut, it’s very frightening. I took those pieces, maybe three frames, sometimes two frames. Two frames is one twelfth of a second, and three frames is an eighth of a second.” “Not easy to catch on a VHS tape,” I said.
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