SOLVED!Friends, if you look closely at the early Wiegman frames of Mr Lovelady, you see something
very curious:
That's right------two heads belonging to Mr Lovelady!
Of course, Mr Lovelady only had one head; the other head belongs to Mr Oswald, who is right behind him and is moving his head in order to see past Mr Lovelady. In some of these upper frames his head is completely hidden behind Mr Lovelady's:
Here's a nice frame of Mr Oswald, on the left as we look:
You can see a little piece of Mr Oswald in the Altgens photograph:
All this explains in the simplest way why Mr Lovelady's right side was blacked out--Mr Oswald's presence would have been too obvious otherwise!
Mr Oswald was telling the truth!