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Summer1962 « David Gilmour Home Footage »
A black and white amateur video showing a visibly young David playing the acoustic guitar in a living room. An extract was presented in the documentary « David Gilmour - Wider horizons » at the BBC (2015).
1964 The Marquee's Club, London, England
According many sources, the Screaming Abdabs were the guests of the Marquee Club for a student movie project. Footage definitively lost if ever existed.
The group (under the name of Pink Floyd) takes part in the annual « Melody Maker » contest. They were quickly eliminated but were invited like the other competitors to attend the final among the public. A video would show the group on certain shots of the audience. Given that this tape was only broadcast once on a local TV, we can now legitimately estimate that it is definitely erased as for all footage of the British TV at this time.
1966 « Yoko Ono's Footage »
Rumour has it that Yoko Ono filmed the band twice in 1966 (still unconfirmed to this day). A long-life rumor about a Yoko Ono footage of the band
8 April 1966 « Ready Steady Goes! », ITV, London, England
After the Floyd having missed their audition, we can see the members of the group watching the show in the middle of the audience during the passage of the singer Lou Christie.
August 1966 Gog Magog Hills, Cambridge, England
Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon was, along with his wife Jenny, a close friend of Barrett's during the Cambridge years and the early years of Pink Floyd's career. The couple filmed a number of shots of Syd between 1965 and 1967. Jenny filmed Barrett's first hallucinogenic mushroom trip on Gog Magog Hill near Cambridge on 8mm film with the singer's friends David Gale, Andrew Rawlinson, Russell Page and Lucy Pryor in the late summer of 1966.
The film became known in 1985 when Nigel Lesmoire-Gordon showed it to Mike Watkinson and Pete Anderson. It became something of a legend among the band's diehard fans. It had to be released in 1993 on the "Vexfilms" label without Sys (or his sister) being consulted. David Gilmour was furious to see this tape marketed and bought back all the rights as well as the original document.
This extract was released (along with Nigel's film for EMI in April 1967, see below) on video. This document was included in the box set Pink Floyd - The early years 1965-1972, dubbed Chapter 24.
Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon was with his wife Jenny a very close friend of Barrett during the Cambridge years as well as at the beginning of the career of Pink Floyd. The couple filmed a number of shots of Syd between 1965 and 1967. Jenny filmed in 8mm Barrett's first trip to hallucinogenic mushrooms at Gog Magog Hill near Cambridge with the singer's friends: David Gale, Andrew Rawlinson, Russell Page and Lucy Pryor in late summer 1966.
15 October 1966 « International Times' First All-Night Rave », Roundhouse, London, England
This « Melody Maker » article attests to the presence of an Italian TV crew among the audience. There is no information on what was actually filmed or if this film survived:
« (...) Another band, called Pink Floyd, took possession of the stage. They played music that sounded like a guitar solo by The Who, only it was a solo without any song to go round it - like a sandwich without bread. They honked and howled and tweeted, clanked with great concentration. They were very loud with no musical form save that every forty minutes they stopped, paused a while and started again. Across the room an Italian film crew filmed a couple of nubile starlets stomping in a mess of pink emulsion paint » « Pink Floyd: All Saints Church Hall», Melody Maker, 22 October 1966
20 December 1966 « Art School Psychedelic Freak Out », Cambridgeshire College of Art and Technology, Cambridge, England
Peter Whitehead has recorded this show with an interview between the students and the band after the gig. According the film maker, this tape was lost or stolen.
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