PINK FLOYD - Royal Festival Hall

This is about 20 mins of b/w footage shot at the Royal Festival Hall
by Anthony Stern (it sez so right there on the opening slate). It seems
that Stern was called earlier that day by the band to shoot this amazing
and unique performance. Unfortunately, he didn't go through all the
proper channels, and only got permission from the RFH to shoot the
rehearsals and only in certain areas of the venue. This becomes apparent
when the venue's security "busts" him and orders him to turn over all
of his equipment. This all takes place while the camera is still rolling,
but with audio only! You can hear the escalating dialogue between
Anthony and security/management as he pleads his case. Too bad he
didn't go through the proper channels and pay for the rights to film
the actual show, as he was evidently prepared to do, but at least we
have this incredible rehearsal footage to marvel at. That's the story as
Stern has pretty much confirmed.

It seems that the last bit (Rick playing the final part of ASoS of the
huge house pipe organ) was outta synch, but I was able to fix that
properly. Other songs include Biding My Time (with Rick briefly on
trombone), Green is the Color, Cymbaline, and ASoS... all incomplete
but still wonderful to watch!

This Rev.A is a substantial upgrade from the original release. The picture
is much less washed out and the contrast is a lot better (the blacks ar
darker) w/o any video enhancement.

This time around I can take an educated stab at the gen:

The original 16mm film was transferred at a professional studio. I'm not
sure what tape stock it was transferred to, but there is a good chance
that a DVD was made at the same time. I can only assume that a clone
of that DVD was passed on (if it was done properly, it should be the
same, but I can't know that for sure). I then received a perfect clone
of that DVD which I converted to an NTSC MPEG-2 stream (CBR 8) and a
PCM stream. My previous release came from an unknown PAL VHS source.

Enjoy!
RonToon