Here is a one frame gif we found to work with. Guillotine (ugly! isn't it.)
First: You have to clean it up.
We Remove unnecessary marks by compositing
small blocks and floodfill a background color.
You cover the bad spots with the orange blocks, Then you change the color of them to green. Work 1 Work 2
Second: Remove (crop out) the blade and give it a transparent
background. So it could be placed at the top, center, bottom, and +25 above and below the center. Work 3
The blade was put in those spots on a No blade version, made by compositing a green block over the blade. Work 4
Each of the new frames were put into a directory then animated at Image Magick. In this case, at a speed of 10 delay 0 loop. Zero Loop means continue to run.