The autopsy is performed in a stark, windowless, institutional room using metal tools from a metal pan on a metal table. A depression-style black wall phone and black round wall clock hang on the barren walls. Anyone having worked in an outdated state psychiatric hospital will recognize the decor instantly. The room used for the autopsy is reminiscent of an institutional setting built before 1920, the wall phone is vintage 1930's, and the metal carts and equipment appear seasoned as well. The autopsy footage spliced together to produce this video is low quality by nature of its origin.
Camera angles are bad as well as focusing.
Various individuals have debated the authenticity of the filming because of its low quality features. Skeptics criticize the camera man for his bad filming, while one special effects team felt they could duplicate it with a budget of several hundred dollars. Stan Winston disagreed. Winston describes the difficulty in getting blood to drip evenly from a round skull incision during a special effect, but found the autopsy in the film performed accurately as he would expect. Supporters of the videotape's authenticity point out that the military issue Bell and Howell movie cameras of that era were fixed focus.