Coffin Pic Exposed!

[goodelvisgirl]

They destroyed it cause they knew that with the 90s came, "The Computer Age" and now they call the new Millennium, "The Information age", people could clearly see how the original was manipulated. This way they could keep using it as fact and make money off of it.

yep good thinking cos with the original no longer out there we will never be albe to compair the one in the paper to the original photo that means it all comes down to your own opinion and your own eye sight and what you beleive very clever these people at covering there tracks

[Jungleroom76]

There is a better photo than the one above, and it was just posted in the Gallery.

I think the one above badly retouched for reasons I don't understand is part of what led people to say it was faked and didn't look like him -- "his nose was pug" -- or didn't look real.

In the other we see that it does look very much like him and it seems that Elvis lived up to his purported prophecy that he would look good in his coffin.



Seeing it again reinforces the point that the suggested doctoring above did not happen.

I apologize that this is upsetting or if you find it to be in bad taste on my part.

Hey pal...I've never seen this particular "version" of the photo before.

Looking at this photo, it definitely looks more like Elvis in the coffin than in the original photo.

As much as I would love to think that he is still alive, the sad reality is that Elvis left us on August 16, 1977.

TCB!
Mike

[cameron]

Hey pal...I've never seen this particular "version" of the photo before.

Looking at this photo, it definitely looks more like Elvis in the coffin than in the original photo.

As much as I would love to think that he is still alive, the sad reality is that Elvis left us on August 16, 1977.

TCB!
Mike

What some seem to foget .....IF there was ever an original;
there can only be one.

[nabelt24]

I'm sorry, but I dissagree with this theory and I'm not buying it. I honestly don't think the pictures match up enough... you're telling me that they had that kind of technology to 'photoshop' and make those changes in lighting, shadows, his mouth open in the concert picture and closed in the coffin pic??? I'm just not buying it.

[rickb]

Certainly this makes for an interesting topic
Rik

[ksimms2]

Cameron, thanks for the article on Mr. Stephens - very sad for him.

Gail, you were there, what are your thoughts on the photo? does it look like it did when you were there? Did Elvis look like that in his coffin? He looks awful young to me in that pic.

I'm not sure either way. I heard the photo was too dark or something so they doctored it to make it printable....? From Tony maybe? Either way - someone said the only thing to say is "AMEN" so I am saying "God Bless You Elvis - Amen"

[goodelvisgirl]

i would love to find a copy of the original paper and the original photo and compare but as was said the photo is no longer around pitty

[cameron]

THIS WAS THE NE PICTURE . NOT ANY OF THE OTHERS ON HERE :AMEN , AND AMEN.

[Getlo]

It was declared officially false in 1978, when the Presleys won in the justice a process against some of those newspapers of the yellow press.

Your source for this please? Aside from a blog entry by "Johnny Cool".

[Suzan]

I have the original Enquirer pic, the photo to me does not look doctored and nobody EVER said it was fake in court or otherwise.
A cousin took this photo, it's been documented...I can't remember his name though.

I to have the pic that has been posted in this thread and again it doesn't look doctored either. As for Elvis looking young...I've seen corpses that have done that...my aunt for one...she looked way younger then her age as she lay in repose.

[utmom2008]

.I can't remember his name though.

Was it Billy Mann???

[TotallyInsane]

Kelly,
My mom and I both thought he looked extremely young on 8/17/77.

[Getlo]

nobody EVER said it was fake in court or otherwise.
A cousin took this photo, it's been documented...I can't remember his name though.

You're right, there was no such court case. That story is rubbish.

The cousin was indeed the late Billy Mann.

We discussed it on the thread linked below, which means this thread is a rehash.

http://www.tcb-world.com/showthread....ght=billy+mann

[cameron]

TCB ,started this thread and only showed how someone could take a picture of Elvis and make it fit into that casket. Why everyone got so excited, I have no idea. The whole idea had nothing to do with compters , E Alive or anything else people brought up.

Everyone I've ever talked to has said it did not look like Elvis in that casket.
I personally thought it looked like an artist sketch. Others reactions were ; "that's not Elvis." ,etc,. etc.

The article says Bob Stephens was Polk's star artist. He caused NE to be sued several times. Read the book about The NE history. After seeing that article I found it in the library. It was interesting. They were possibly the biggest scammers in the business at that time. They also paid "big bucks" for their stories .

No one ever said Elvis was not in that casket. It was only wondered why he looked like he did. It was the picture people doubted; not what it was supposed to be. A good artist could touch up the picture...without Photoshop. From all I've read about Stephens, he was the best.
That's all that was being said .The picture was in doubt that it turned out. After paying Billy Mann and others {I've heard} you can bet Polk would want that picture "fixed." That is the only thing, IMO that was being questioned.

Why anyone would get so excited because their "belief" might be questioned is not understandable to me. I've had to face and change a lot of what my ideas were after looking into Elvis' life. I can handle it.
If one doesn't want to find answers and some truth about a few things...as someone once said ; "stay out of the thread".

[Lonniebealestreet]

Hey pal...I've never seen this particular "version" of the photo before.

Looking at this photo, it definitely looks more like Elvis in the coffin than in the original photo.

Ah yes, but this one is the original and not the badly doctored version of it that we see on the cover of the Enquirer.

I do not understand why they felt the need to move the position of the head in the casket, to mess up the nose or to add all that skin under his chin in a grotesque fashion, but it was done nonetheless.

There may be an explanation for this somewhere; I remember seeing a comparison of these two photos years ago and it may have been detailed there...wherever that was.

[LORRIELOVESELVIS]

Im just not sure about any of this!!!!!!

[TCBnAflash]

There is a better photo than the one above, and it was just posted in the Gallery.

I think the one above badly retouched for reasons I don't understand is part of what led people to say it was faked and didn't look like him -- "his nose was pug" -- or didn't look real.

In the other we see that it does look very much like him and it seems that Elvis lived up to his purported prophecy that he would look good in his coffin.



Seeing it again reinforces the point that the suggested doctoring above did not happen.

I apologize that this is upsetting or if you find it to be in bad taste on my part.

This photo does look like the real deal but what I keep coming back to is, why are all shadows, nose, eyes, chin all in place with the Live Photo, cept for the cropping of his left side of his face showing?
The cover photo you're able to tell it was fake cause of the lighting of the image is much lighter.

When I was a kid my Mom got me a job working for this local newspaper. This was in 1979 and they had me do some of the touch up work on photos they wanted to improve on. It's all reversed, you place the negative on a pexi glass table that has a light under it. The black was touched up in white and the white in black. Now, the dark room was whole other story. They were able to control the darkness of the way an image was printed.

It's sad that Elvis died the way he did. I saw him once live as a kid in, 1975 and all I could remember was, this is the coolest man in the world. That night changed my life.

[goodelvisgirl]

cameron well said buddy you have a wise head on them shoulders

[TCBnAflash]

Cameron I think you said it all.

[goodelvisgirl]

yep hey tcb how did you find out about all this with the pics and all