Subliminal Messaging

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gated. He wanted a patent for his machine capable of the splicing, that’s exactly what he got: a patent for a machine designed to insert frames into a film reel. No empirical results promoting the idea of a subliminal perception of these frames were ever found.
The Disney Corporation has been accused on several occasions of placing phallic media into their movies. “Good teenagers, now take off your clothes” can be heard (once it is pointed out when to listen for it) during the Aladdin video. However, it should be known that it may or may not have been intended. Upon closer examination, when the sound clip is played in slow motion, Aladdin can be heard saying “c’mon… good kitty” (just as the script demands) where a second voice, not part of the script or the scene mumbles something resembling “psst… take off your clo…”. There are a number of reasons this second voice may be part of the clip; perhaps a bad editing mistake, a prank, or others. In any case, it is most likely the mere suggestion of what the line sou...