In which case, the doorway behind the foliage goes substantially farther west than we've been giving it credit for.............

I think Bell (in the latter frames when Mr. Lovelady straightens up) and this latter-Wiegman frame are showing Mr. Lovelady and Ms. Reese in the same spatial relationship to one another:


Mr. Bell is NOT looking at the doorway head-on.
There is no impossible shadow running down Mr. Lovelady's right side in Bell. If he were Redshirt Man in Hughes, there would have been no need to throw an impossible shadow down him in Wiegman.
Redshirt Man in Hughes is Mr. Oswald, who is taking a drink from his bottle of Coca Cola:
