Timewatch: The History of a Mystery (1996)

Close-up of Philippe de Cherisey's handwriting from his unpublished document "Stone and Paper" explaining that he was the creator of the "parchments" and that it was all a joke - Philippe de Cherisey also wrote in "Stone and Paper": "Alors je me sentirai tout a fait a l'aisle pour me declarer l'unique auteur de cette plaisanterie ... Que si aujourd'hui je ne serai qu'un demi-faceur, j'en serai bientot un complet" ("Therefore I feel completely free to call myself the sole author of this joke ... If today I am only a half-prankster, then shortly I will be a full one"). The decoding process of the "parchments" follows this handwritten declaration by Philippe de Cherisey (from the Discovery Channel satellite documentary Conspiracies On Trial: The Da Vinci Code, first aired on 10 April 2005. (http://priory-of-sion.com/posd/wikipedia.html)