Sure looks like that was what they were trying to do. Besides, if you don't like the footage you have, you get new footage. You don't go messing with it. It's not like they don't have millions of hours of tape they can use, shot from a bajillion different angles. But no. They chose to doctor this shot because they didn't think anybody would notice.

Well, welcome to the Brave New World, boys and girls. People will notice. And people do care.