The discussion of whether John Podesta is the man in the Fatherhood video has centered on analysis of voice and speech patterns. I have tried to include the URL from this video into this post, but I see it has just been banned from Youtube.
The Fatherhood video is a visually “complicated” piece. The screaming, flashing multicolored lights, the distortion of what appears to be a glass shower door and the brush all add to disorienting the viewer.
I examined the video frame by frame to try to extract more details. The images are posted in the album http://imgur.com/a/BPKXH
The album includes original screen shots and enhanced images.
Early in the video there is a silhouette of a person moving in and out of focus but at 04s there is a clear body profile of what appears to be a thin man that appears to be wearing knee length shorts.
At 27s a hand image is seen with wide spread fingers. The hand is also seen at 28s and appears to show somewhat distorted fingers.
The next three images were from frames at 40s. It is of a hand that is seen from the top (in a handshake position) that turns palm downward. These three frames show a hand with fingers that are not fully extended, but that appear to be positioned with fingers curved downward.
Although these images are individual frames and are only momentary captures it can be definitively said that the man in the video is quite thin. Five hand images were captured, which together appear to show widely spaced finger positioning, distortion, and finger curling.
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Fateswebb ago
You're looking at it from a complete different view than I am. It's my assumption that the cameraman is outside of a shower with sliding glass doors and the child is inside of the shower. There is some sort of colored flashlight or strobe light in there with the child. The man standing outside appears to have a dust mop of sorts and sometimes mops the glass with it to agitate the child. The stuff you're seeing in my eyes are the distorted view of the child inside of the shower glass which distorts the view because the glass is similar to stained glass in that it's textured similar to how meted ice can look. Or that's how I have percieved it.. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/e0/5b/9b/e05b9b4778d28611b07df385df1242de.jpg
Werwer12 ago
I see it from the same angle as you do. One thing I'm researching right now is the exact towel bar that is in the video. Towel bars are on the outside of the glass door I believe so you don't use them to support a fall while in the shower, causing the entire door to shatter, and of course the towels don't dry well in a moist environment. With that being said, the towel bar in the video is absolutely on the cameraman side of the door.
I think this walking shower is a bit bigger than we may be used to. By my estimate, there looks to be a good 5 or 6 feet from the light source, to the shower glass.
Another thing to note is that the shower door itself (on the left side of the video) is a split door where the top half and bottom half both swing. It's kind of like those weird front doors on people's houses where you can open the top half to let a breeze in while keeping the kids and dogs locked in with the bottom half.
At moments in the video, the man's face and head appear, unobstructed by the glass completely. If someone could enhance and brighten these images, this may provide some clues as to the general shape of the head, face, hair/no hair, etc...
The child is most likely curled up on the ground on the right hand side of the video. The man repeatedly bends down and probably forcefully grabs the child, then backs away, probably beating the child as well.
This was my interpretation.
Fateswebb ago
I think I may have identified the source of light being used. The last setting of this light displayed in this video appears to be being held by the person on the other side of the glass.
So you think that there are 3 people? The cameraman, a man on the other side of the glass, and the child? What part in the video do you see his face? I haven't noticed this.