Pink Floyd In Pompeii
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| Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii | |
| Realization | Adrian Maben |
|---|---|
| Main actors | Pink Floyd |
| Photography | Willy Kurant Gbor Pogny |
| Mounting | Nino DiFonzo Marie-Claire Perret Jose Pinheiro |
| Music | Pink Floyd |
| Production | Steve O'Rourke Michle Arnaud Reiner Moritz |
| Company (s) of production | Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany) ORTF (France) RTBF (Belgium) |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| Language (s) original (s) | English |
| Format | Color 1,37:1 35 mm |
| Genre | Documentary concert |
| Duration | 60 min (original version) 80 minutes (version 1974) 91 minutes (director's cut) |
| Output | September 1972 |
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a musical film of Adrian Maben , originally released in 1972.
Originally, it was a project to provide European broadcasters to film Pink Floyd performing some of his songs in the world mineral Pompeii and Vesuvius. The first theatrical release version lasts 60 minutes and we only see the scenes of Pompeii and Paris. This version contained an introduction like Echoes with air, a whistle and a little air guitar played by David Gilmour.
A second version was released in 1974: it adds twenty minute documentary on Pink Floyd, then in full development of the album The Dark Side of the Moon (we are witnessing the development of On the Run , to Us and Them and Brain Damage ), and excerpts of interviews of four members of the group with Adrian Maben. This version, as well as the director's cut, have introduced a heartbeat like Speak to Me.
Only Echoes , A Saucerful of Secrets and One of These Days tours occur on site. The rest was recorded in a studio in Paris, with images of Pompeii projected behind the musicians. Despite appearances, some scenes from films shot in Pompeii were taken in Paris, except for One of These Days. The majority of plans for this last song has been lost, so that one sees almost as drummer Nick Mason on this sequence (it also loses a stick, but managed to get out another while maintaining the pace ).
Although she was offered to play in playback, the group preferred to perform live. The acoustics of the amphitheater of Pompeii is remarkable, and the ancient part of the site gives an extra dimension to the band's music.
Unlike the vast majority of live albums that are most often recorded during the concerts, the Live at Pompeii Pink Floyd was played before an empty theater to its audiences. This further reinforces the impression of a sound totally pure idea recurs in Pink Floyd. The film is therefore to be "a sort of anti- Woodstock "(Adrian Maben), where the goal is to focus on music, and nothing about music, leaving aside the" public reaction ".
In 2003 released a DVD version called " director's cut ", which lasts 92 minutes: there were added sequences generated images representing the space, Pompeii and its destruction by the lava of Vesuvius, as well as images from the Abbey Road missions and Apollo. The DVD also contains the 1972 film (60 minutes), but as a generic heartbeat, as the long version of 1974.
Summary |
Specifications
- Original title: Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
- Directed by: Adrian Maben
- Photo: Willy Kurant and Gbor Pogny
- Editing: Nino DiFonzo , Marie-Claire Perret and Jose Pinheiro
- Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany), ORTF (France), RTBF (Belgium)
- Format: Couleurs - 1,37:1 - 35mm
- Duration: 60 minutes (the director's cut: 91 minutes)
- Date of shooting at Pompeii: October 1971
- Release Date: Spring 1973 (France)
Songs Played
Version 1972 (60 ')
- Echoes , Part I
- Careful With That Axe Eugene
- A Saucerful of Secrets
- One of These Days (I'm Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces)
- Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
- Miss Nobs
- Echoes, part two
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