Zapruder film

Frame 150 from the Zapruder film.

The Zapruder film is a silent, color motion picture sequence shot by private citizen Abraham Zapruder, a citizen with a home-movie camera, as U.S. President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, thereby unexpectedly capturing the President's assassination.

The Zapruder film was added to the National Film Registry in 1994.

Tropes used in Zapruder film include:

• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Many. It was the film most studied by the Warren Commission detailed to look into the assassination, and it provided many of the clues they used to draw up their final report.
• Gorn: The camera angle provides an extremely detailed look at Kennedy's death, in all its up close and gory detail.
• Ur Example: The very first U.S. presidential assassination caught on film.