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15 April 1967 « K4 Brighton Festival », Kinetic Arena, Brighton, England This movie called « Promenade » is pretty obscure. Directed and self-produced by Donovan Winter, this short film follows a character in search of a woman.This realization had some critics success and was selected for the Venice Biennale in 1968. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox in the summer of 1968 (support for «Planet of the Apes»). At one time, the main character goes to a club and we can heard and seen some glimpses of Floyd playing an instrumental piece (very difficult to distinct). There was a long debate about the date and place of this capture since the band played four times in Brighton that year.The date seems to be that of 15 April 1967 as stated by the actress Kate O 'Mara (although it may be confused with another date).
But Austin Parkinson, who worked on the set confirmed to the specialist Peter Prentice on the «Missing-episodes» forum
This festival was a contemporary art festival leaded by a group of student. Here the band played on projectionsrealised by the collective in collaboration with the artist Bruce Lacey and the band: Pyramid. The film is present in the HuntleyArchives’ vaults (under number 19576) while the negative is held by the BFI underreference 42012. The director lost his last copy in the '90s and died in 2015. The director was contacted by the collector Hallucalation who stated that he shot about 2 hours of film there and Pink Floyd was totally invisible in his film.
Austin Parkinson (Producer):
«On January 6, 1967, I missed one of the only Who shows of my career through drug abuse (to assist this show) Syd Barrett was wonderful and so were the rest of them. I fell in love with the band and the club itself. Syd, who walked on stage (off his head on acid), played a single chord and made it last about an hour using an electronic echo machine called a Binson,” he explained. “When he did start to play again he was truly inspiring. Roger Waters had the most incredible presence, he was strikingly handsome and clearly fancied [my partner] Karen. I found him a little scary. It was evident he was going to be the principal driving force behind Pink Floyd»
«.Peter Prentice post », Missing-Episodes Website, 7 July 2015
24.04.1967« The True Life of Percy, the Rat Catcher » TV series
Many newspapers stated the band shot a pilot. See the pageThe cancelled projects for more details. On a side note, the main title will later re-used as Lucifer Sam on their first LP
29 April 1967 « Fan Club », VARA TV Studios, Zaandam, Netherlands Broadcast on 5 May. The band played the Arnold Layne video and Candy and a Current Bun. According to sources very close to the band, their performance is considered to have been permanently lost (i.e. deleted).A well-known Dutch Floyd fan, Daniel Van Eijmeren, contacted the channel and was told that the tape still exists in the 'VARA' archives, but that he has no plans to rebroadcast it or make copies for legal reasons.
As it turned out, the tape no longer exists. In fact, the archives of the VARA television channel go back no further than 1983. Earlier recordings were deposited in the national archive « Nederlands Onderwijs in het Buitenland » (or NOB). Unfortunately, it was decided to keep a few examples of old programmes without attempting to preserve the entire audiovisual archive. In this case, only the episode of 11 April 1967 has been preserved; the rest has been deleted.
Photographies taken on TV set by Nico Van Der Stam
29 April 1967 « Arnold Layne promo clip », St Michael's Church, London, England Another clip for Arnold Layne filmed on 29 April 1967 near St Michael's Church. This film was broadcast on Dutch TV's « Fan Club » programme. This clip was rebroadcast on the « Bouton Rouge » French TV program on 21 May 1967. This is the source unearthed some years later. Featured on the Pink Floyd’s « The early years 1965-1972 » box set.
29 April 1967 « 14 Hour Technicolour Dream », Alexandra Palace, London, England The only viable extracts that have come down to us from Peter Whitehead's film. Unfortunately, it don’t show the Floyd’s gig. However, we know that the BBC hired a team to film and interview certain members. This was included to a special episode of the TV show called « Man Alive », broadcasted on May 17, 1967 (see below) and «Look at the Week», on May 21th.
A live duplex was set for the 9 p.m. TV News. An Italian team also had the rights to film the entire event. It would be the team who shot some sequence for a French-Italian movie (see below). Given that Pink Floyd was the headliner, we can reasonably think that the group's performance was (at least partially) captured even if they went on stage very late (in fact the next morning at 3 am). Besides, one can wonder if it was not the source used in the Franco-Italian film «Col Cuore in Gola» where we can see large extracts of this event (more or less integrated in the history, a process certainly inspired by the «Blow Up» of Antonioni with the Yardbirds sequence). Unfortunately, the passages only concern the Soft Machine group.
There is also a German documentary that evokes this event, entitled «Die blumenkinder von London - Hippies of London» which presents atmospheric images. There is also the program « Panorama » broadcast on August 9, 1967 on the BBC. The KinoLibrary fonds presents a few seconds filmed in the crowd during the arrival of John Lennon (Clip ref AB251.3.). Finally in the BBC report entitled «Now TIme» devoted to the shooting of «Blow Up», we can see some new images accompanied by the studio version of Reaction in G (the Blu-ray version released by the publisher Criterion presents a longer version of this title).
«Seven thousand people, including three " Man Alive " film crews stayed up all night recently at Alexandra Palace for «A Happening». It meant participating in a 14-hour «Technicolour dream» and the remarkable film which resulted can be seen at 8.5. The idea started in California with the Beautiful People, and at the Alexandra Palace Marathon the leaders and apostles of the movement, Susie Creamcheese, the Fuzzdeath Ballet, the Flies, the Pink Floyd and Dick Gregory, appeared among their disciples. There were never fewer than two or three pop groups playing: mountains of bananas: concerts with coloured lights; and men indistinguishable from women»
«Walter’s Weakness», Coventry Evening Telegraph, 17 May 1967
Source: « Col Cuore in Gola » Movie.
Source: « Tonight, let’s all make love in London » Movie.
Source: « Man Alive: What is a happening ? » TV show.
Source: « Eight Miles high » TV show.
Source: « Now Time » TV show.
Source: « Panorama » TV show.
Source: « Kino Library - AB251.3 » footage
14 May 1967 « Look of the Week », BBC Lime Grove Studios, London, England Certainly the most widely broadcast video of the band's early years. The tape first aired in the 80s on Italian TV on RAI UNO, then on Channel Four on 1st January 1990 in the programme « An A to Z of TV » and then in the BBC documentary series « Sound of the Sixties » on 23 November 1991 (in the 8th episode entitled « Hip to the Trip »). Since the sequence was widely broadcasted all around the world. Featured on the « Pink Floyd - The early years 1965-1972 » box set.
14 May 1967 « Bouton Rouge », ORTF, Paris, France An extract broadcasted in the « Jukebox » Topic during this show
17 May 1967« Man alive », BBC 2 TV, London, England
First pictures broadcasted of the «14h Technicolor Dream».
21 May 1967 « Bouton Rouge », ORTF, Paris, France French broadcast of the alternate promo film for Arnold Layne filmed on 29 April near St Michael's Church in Highgate
27 May 1967 « American Bandstand », ABC Studios, Los Angeles, USA A ranking of the most dancing songs according to the spectators of the show with Arnold Layne coming second. Followed by a dance sequence on this track!
29 May 1967 « Barbeque '67 », Tulip Bulb Auction Hall, Spalding, England
A silent amateur 8mm recording filmed by Bill Hardinge and lasting almost 9 minutes certainly exists. However, it is not known whether the Floyd's performance was captured or not.
June 1967 101 Crowelle Road, Cambridge, England Before the Floyd's concert at the Knebworth Festival on 30 June 1990, a film made by Storm Thorgeson was shown. In the midst of this montage of promotional films and newspaper clippings, an amateur film was shown. It was probably filmed in Cambridge by Storm or Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon and shows the Cambridge Mafia (as Gilmour said) in David Gale's garden at 101 Cromwell Road. Syd, David Gale and Lindsay Corner can be seen there, among others.
6 Juy1967 « Top of the Pops », BBC Lime Grove Studios, London, England THE great discovery of the past few years, even though some collectors had owned the band since the early 1990s. The «British Film Institute» (BFI) accidentally found this tape, which contained other extracts as a version of A Wither Shade of Pale by Procol Harum). The band was owned by the archivist Bill Harrison. The BFI found it and showed the video at one of their famous annual event «Missing, Believed Wiped» on 9 January 2008. The management of Pink Floyd then recovered this band. Present on the boxset «Pink Floyd - The early years 1965-1972».
Dick Fiddy (BFI’s curator):
« We gave the tape to the archive boffins. It was in a dreadful condition, with the oxide falling off. The best possible picture quality was recovered »
« Rare Discovered ! », Mojo Magazine, October 2007.
Steve Bruyant (BFI’s curator):
« This is an enormously significant discovery that will generate huge interest amongst music fans all over the world, even though the surviving material is in poor condition. Footage of Pink Floyd from this era is extremely rare »
« Rare Discovered ! », Mojo Magazine, October 2007.
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