28 June 1987 « A Momentary Lapse Cover Shooting », Saunton Saunds, Braunton, England
Storm Thorgerson filmed the photo shoot for the cover of « A Momentary Lapse of Reason ». Extracts can be seen in the documentary « Taken by Storm ». A better version was used for the Pink Floyd exhibition at the V&A Museum in London.
7 August1987 International Pearsons Airport, Toronto, Canada
The set-up footage was shot on three Betacam oxide (professional) tapes. It was shot by a pro crew (likely an MTV crew) but might have been hired by CBS records.
The songs are all incomplete, and if some are only here in a very short part There are several reasons for this. Clearly the crew had only one camera and was shooting for the purpose of B-roll editing, that is getting shots edited in between interview footage to produce one or more MTV segments news. The crew would have had no reason to shoot complete songs, much less the entire set. They may have also received clear indication not to record complete songs in order to prevent bootlegging. The last factor was that they only had three 20 minutes tapes which limited their capacities to record more than necessary.
