re subliminal message flashing on tv lihan ccwf cc utexas edu bruce g bostwick writes well yes and no the image can t be on the screen less than of a second but a mixture of images that s about of the field that was supposed to be there and of the subliminal addition could be overlaid for one field producing the same overall effect to our sluggish retinae of a discrete image projected for second this is a s idea supposedly splicing in a frame of buy popcorn upped popcorn sales in a movie theatre big flap at the time congress involved talk of making it illegal general agreement by networks not to do it a few years ago some junior person at an advertising agency re invented subliminal projection and one commercial went out on tape with single frame messages it aired on a few stations but a tech at one station previewing the tape noticed a flicker and looked at the tape frame by frame to find the defect big flap fcc notified commercial pulled press reports embarassed ad agency you could probably find the press reports via dialog or nexis if you wanted now that everybody has vcrs it s not likely that anybody could get away with this on tv john nagle
