Transcript: Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath (Season 1 Episode 0): Forward masking and subliminal sequence (2016)
S1E0(YT) | 00:00:08.108
This is a record of the subliminal messaging embedded in the first moments of Season 1, Episode 0.1 The relevant video footage begins, at approximately seven seconds into the program, with a number of transition frames for “forward masking”2, and continues with a subliminal sequence of emotionally charged profiling terms flashed as text items on screen for approximately 33 to 34 milliseconds per item. 3
I captured the video using a high resolution LCD monitor4 and video capturing software.5 I then produced the footage in video editing software 6 with a frame rate of 29.971 fps.
I used open source video editing software7 to extract the relevant footage as still frames, to record the time codes for each frame in terms down to milliseconds, and to summarize the technical information on my captured and produced video:
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Video8
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Codec 4CC: H264
Image Size: 1280 x 720
Aspect Ratio: 1:1 (1:1)
Frame Rate: 29.971 fps
Total Duration: 00:43:20.567
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Extra Video Properties
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ExtraDataSize: 36
Extra data: 01 64 00 1F FF E1 00 15 67 64
Low opacity background. Subliminal sequence begins after these frames.
S1E0(YT) | 00:00:08.808S1E0(YT) | 00:00:08.842
S1E0(YT) | (No text) | 00:00:08.875
BELIEVER (33 ms.)
S1E0(YT) | BELIEVER | 00:00:08.908
TRAITOR (34 ms.)
S1E0(YT) | TRAITOR | 00:00:08.942
S1E0(YT) | (No text) | 00:00:08.975
BELIEVER (34 ms.)
S1E0(YT) | BELIEVER | 00:00:09.109
TRAITOR (33 ms.)
S1E0(YT) | TRAITOR | 00:00:09.142
ENEMY (33 ms.)
S1E0(YT) | ENEMY | 00:00:09.175
DEFECTOR (34 ms.)
S1E0(YT) | DEFECTOR | 00:00:09.209S1E0(YT) | (No text) | 00:00:09.242
S1E0(YT) | (No text) | 00:00:09.275
LEAH REMINI (zooms out to white screen)
S1E0(YT) | LEAH REMINI 00:00:09.309
Notes
Remini, L. (2016-12-19). Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath: Ask Me Anything (Season 1, Episode 0). A&E Television Networks. IMDB. ↩
Ref. Macknik, S. L., & Martinez-Conde, S. (2007). The role of feedback in visual masking and visual processing. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3(1-2), 125-152. doi:10.2478/v10053-008-0020-5. PDF format↩
This range of stimulus duration is known to fall below normal thresholds of consciousness. Radu, I. M. (2016 October-December). Subliminal perception of complex visual stimuli. Romanian Journal of Ophthalmology, 60(4), 226-230. PDF format↩
