PINK FLOYD - The Story, BBC Documentary

PINK FLOYD - The Story (BBC Omnibus 1994)
[ This Place Records TPR DVD 001 ]

format: PAL
ratio : 4:3
video : 8000kbps
audio : Linear PCM 48kHz
length: 40 minutes
source: Master PAL VHS

Details:

This is the very first DVD release of my little label called
"This Place Records" (the referred place should be well
known to any serious Floyd fan and appears during the
opening and closing tracks of the DVD; this is one of the
most beautiful places in the world and I used extracts from
my private film, shot during my honeymoon trip, for these
DVD intro & outro; don't worry, my honeymoon trip is not the
main subject of the DVD ;-)).

Back in 1994, I taped this excellent documentary when it was
broadcast by BBC TV. I decided to transfer my Master PAL VHS
to digital format when I realised that it could be a nice
upgrade, compared to the best version of the documentary
circulating until now, by our friends from Psychedelic
Closet Records (sorry, Scott... ;-)).

This 40 minute documentary was aired by BBC TV on November
15, 1994, just before the broadcast of the Earl's Court
show filmed a few weeks before, on October 20. Even if the
documentary was produced at the time of the Division Bell
tour (Roger Waters refused to be interviewed for that
program), the post-Waters era is only briefly mentioned
(during the last 2 minutes). The rest is focused on the
band's history with Waters.

The documentary not only features interviews with the
3 Pink Floyd members of the time, but it also includes
interesting interviews with a lot of people closely
related to the band: Andrew King, Joe Boyd, Mike Leonard,
Storm Thorgerson, Ron Geesin, Clare Torry, Douglas Adams...

It also contains rare archival footage such as extracts
from 1968 Tomorrow's World program, and a very unique film
showing the band recording Marooned in Gilmour's houseboat
studio, the Astoria, with Bob Ezrin playing the bass (this
recording session is only shown very briefly, and mainly
in a small incrusted image during the ending credits; this
rare footage was used, in slight slow motion and full
screen, for the DVD menus).

I hope you'll enjoy this nice upgrade. I think that the
only possible improvement would be to find the pre-broadcast
tape used by TV stations!

Cheers!

MOB