September Clues - Layers of Deception - (Part Five)

By Mark Conlon

This is a short study regarding claims made by Simon Shack, (real name Simon Hytten) in his September Clues film regarding the segment “The Matrix”. Shack claims the backdrop is gone, and was erased. See below:

Shack also claims that there’s two different airplane paths, asserting that the airplane was inserted into the video. See below:

Shack has conveniently cropped the video footage and altered the ratio of the video, along without showing the viewer any zoomed out perspective of the two videos, which makes his claims convincing. However it is not convincing when the zoomed-out video perspectives are observed, and ultimately Shack’s claim is proven false. See below:

The two zoomed out perspectives show that it was two different pieces of news video coverage. Thus, showing that the video on the right has no background due to the elevation and perspective, and looks as it should look, and was not “erased” as Shack claims. See below:

Also, the video footage on the left shows a different elevated perspective of the Hudson River, which is what you would expect to see at that altitude from which the helicopter was videoing from. Additionally, Shack’s argument regarding two different airplane paths is also self-explanatory, as you would expect with different perspectives of the airplane path. So again, Shack makes a false claim.

See short video study below:

Conclusion

Shack portrays two different pieces of news video as the same, when they are not. With the cropping of the two pieces of video footage makes the videos misleading and eliminating the full perspectives of each video, which can deceive viewers who are not as discerning in their due diligence when presented with false conclusions.

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