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I'll come back to the Elan Frank film in a minute. But this information, from the first chapter of the Sarah biography, was just too interesting:
Born in Sandpoint, Idaho on February 11, 1964, Sarah Louise was the third of four children born in rapid succession to Chuck and Sally Heath. The family moved to Alaska when Sarah was two months old... Her older brother, Chuck Jr., was two years old, Heather had just turned one, and Molly was soon to come.Chuck Jr. was two, Heather just turned one, Sarah was two months and Molly was "soon to come." [counts fingers, scratching head]
This means that Sarah was born just 10 months after Heather. It also sounds like Sally was pregnant again just two months after Sarah was born.
Hmmmm. I'm wondering if Bristol inherited this rapid-repeat-pregnancy tendency from Sally.
But back to Elan Frank. He decided to do a documentary on 'women empowerment' and chose Sarah Palin as one of his subjects. In early March, 2008 he was in Los Angeles preparing for his trip to Alaska when Sarah called him (from LA) and said she'd like to meet. This get-together took place about a month before Frank traveled to Alaska to do his filming.
After Sarah was announced as a VP candidate, Frank remarked, "I was elated, it's like my best friend was picked for the job," and proceeded to sell his footage to Fox News. In September, 2008 Fox aired a documentary that used substantial portions of that footage.
Elan Frank in Sarah's office, circa April 8, 2008
I can't find a video of that Fox program. However, there is a video about Elan Frank recording Sarah Palin in which Frank describes his experiences shooting this documentary footage.
In a related Ynetnews story titled "Sarah Palin mesmerizes Israeli filmmaker", Frank says,
I can understand why Frank would be confused. On one day he filmed Sarah slapping her squarish jelly-belly. But a day or so before, she looked like this:
"I met her in my Hollywood office and we talked for over an hour… we instantaneously clicked and we had a blast. The funny thing is," he added, "that a few days later I got an email from a friend in Alaska telling me she was seven months pregnant. I didn’t notice a thing until later, when we were filming.
"I guess she's one of those women you can't really [tell] when they're pregnant, and she was probably dressing to hide it a little. You wouldn't know to look for it."
The 'fashion-assisting' scarf hangs straight down
The image above is a frame from the video about the documentary footage that Frank shot. We see Sarah, Blackberry in hand, going out of her office, down some steps, and onto the sidewalk to greet daughter Piper who gets off the school bus. The only adjustments I made to this frame were to crop it and remove the letters that ran across the bottom.
For reference, here's the original frame, about the 00:02:03 mark:
By all accounts, Elan Frank shot this roughly 10 days before Trig Palin's official birthdate. That would mean Sarah is supposed to be 33-34 weeks pregnant here. I scrolled through more than a hundred pictures of women who are 34 weeks pregnant, and there's no reasonable comparison.
The author of a JewishJournal.com article about Frank's filming of Palin, titled Shooting Sarah Palin, tells us,
So yes, Frank seems to have fallen under her spell. But Frank is no [sucker or fool] himself. This is a war hero who spent seven years in the Israeli army fighting a wily foe. He knows all about deception. He doesn't trust easily. He can tell real from fake and tough from soft.Hmmmmm. Was Elan Frank mesmerized or not? Was he under Sarah's spell? Do seven years in the Israeli army enable you to tell the difference between a real pregnant belly and a fake one?
"If Sarah Palin is anything," he says, "she's real and tough."
