bronze film footage

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Mon Mar 19 08:16:50 EDT 2007


Iain Ferguson writes:

> Who cares,
> 
> everyone wants to see this & the Space Ritual footage..
> 
> they are the holy fricking grail of Hawkwind footage, and virtually no 
> one  has seen it..
> 
> I don't care if its out a tune, timing to cock, just let me see 
> it....the band were mainly off their chump in the 70's anyway.
> 
> Unfortunately I have this feeling that its just gonna get buried like 
> all other footage of bands that isn't top notch, or dont get along, and 
> would rather no one get to see it.

I just don't see the missing sound being a gigantic issue. The reason 
we want video is so that we can *see* the band. Look at the TotP "Silver
Machine" video. It's just footage from 1972 with the single played over
it. If we can enjoy that then we can certainly enjoy video of a whole
Space Ritual concert. 

For sound, we have Space Ritual, Space Ritual II, and the two Brian
Matthews tracks, as well as whatever Dave has tucked away in the attic.
Sure, it'd take a largish number of man-hours to match sound to video if
some clever editing were to be done. On the other hand, the work can now
be done on any average gaming PC. A simple way to get it done would be
for the band to farm a track each out to any of us who volunteer. It
might not be perfect, but it would certainly be better than the blank
screen we currently have.

FoFP



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