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of hours after sunset when the sedatives were wearing off."

The first scene leapt up. The cell was lit. Howlin wasn't on the bedding. There was a flash of movement,
the move of a shadow at the lower edge of the frame.

Then something came up to cover the lensтАФthe bedding strip. Then the screen went dark.

And stayed that way through the rest of the reel.

"That's it?" asked the captain of the guards. "Could we see it again, slower maybe?"

Fibidjian rewound the film, showed the scene over, frame by frame.

"Hold it," said the warden. "Right there."

It was the bedding coming up. For three frames. At the edge of the cloth in the second frame was the
outline ofтАФwas it a hand? Was it something else?
The next morning, while Howlin slept, they brought the workmen in. The camera had been destroyed,
and the hole around the lens had been chipped away for two inches.

They reconcreted it with a piece of three inch in diameter rebar inside, repoured, and never tried anything
like the filming again.




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November 29, 1939 Box 1476
Alcatraz, California
Professor E. C. Slipher
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff, Arizona

Dear Professor Slipher:

I understand there are at present no plans to use the new 200-inch telescope at Mount Palomar for
observations of the Moon. I understand that would be like using an elephant gun on a gnat.

I read in Sky and Telescope the field of view would be something like 2 1/2 miles across viewed from 17
miles away, at least twice as good as any telescope used on the face of Luna before.

I believe this is a rare opportunity to look for the anomalies reported on the Moon in the last
centuryтАФthe signs of light in various areas, possible volcanic activity in the Sinuous Rille from 1879; the
blue glow coming from differing areas, and the changes in craters Alphonsus, Hercules, and
Eratosthenes.

It would be wonderfulтАФand scientifically usefulтАФif some small fraction of timeтАФa night each month or