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- From: stevedc@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Stephen Carter)
- Subject: Re: Marketing video clips of the Fabs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.082214.19205@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Sussex
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:22:14 GMT
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- saki (dmac@julia.math.ucla.edu) wrote:
- :
- : Documentaries are also not known for airing complete events; their point
- : requires illustration but not the video equivalent of verbosity. An excerpt
- : often makes an impact (to wit, John's "rattle their jewelry" comment) where
- : instead, within the complete musical performance, its illustrative power
- : is lost. I'm not arguing in favor of this technique, mind you; I myself
- : would love to see the complete Royal Variety Show, Granada TV clips,
- : Thank Your Lucky Stars, Ready Steady Go! appearances, but documentaries
- : have another agenda. They're providing minor quotes of musical events,
- : which help them tell the story of history.
-
- Agreed.
-
- At present on UK Channel 4 on saturday nights a programme billed as
- Ready Steady Go! is running. In fact it is made up of assorted out of
- order and unlinked clips from RSG, from Around the Beatles (grrrrr)
- and Dave Clarke (who?) films.
-
- If the excerpts themselves were not so basically good, I'd have
- destroyed my TV at least 5 times! :-)
-
- I'd really really love to see WHOLE shows, uncut.
-
- (As for Royal Command Performance (a rare slip by saki there) she
- knows my address, and can come round and watch it any time - but I
- suspect that she'll have to wait until she comes over in 1999 - and
- readers other than saki can email me if they can work out WHY 1999 -
- and as far as I know it has no oblig beatles connection :-)
-
- Stephen Carter, Systems & Operations Manager, Computing Services,
- University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK
- JANET : S.Carter@uk.ac.sussex.central
- "Nothing is Beatle Proof!"
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