Title:  The Pink Floyd Video Anthology

Price Paid: $43.50

Cover Art: Lovely color collage of pictures from all stages of
Floydian history.

Overall Rating: B

Arnold Layne (excerpt from promo)
Interstellar Overdrive (excerpt from Granada TV)
Astronomy Domine (Live at the Round House)
Syd Barrett Interveiw (BBC - ~30 secs long)
The Scarecrow (Pathe Newsreel)
Apples and Oranges (promo - the one w/ Roger lip-synching)
See Emily Play (promo)
A Saucerful of Secrets (excerpts from 1968 & mid 70's)
Astronomy Domine (promo)
The Scarecrow (promo)
Set The Controls... (excerpts from 1968)
Point Me At The Sky (promo)
Atom Heart Mother (Tokyo)
Cymbaline (KQED Studios 1970)
Set The Controls...(Holland Pop Festival)
A Saucerful Of Secrets (Holland Pop Festival)
One Of These Days (from animated film "French Windows")
Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Australian TV 1971)
Set The Controls... (from "Heart Of The Sun" film - 1973)
Careful With That Axe, Eugene ("Superstars In Concert" - 1973)
Brian Damage/Eclipse (backdrop film - from MTV Weekend)
Welcome To The Machine (backdrop film - from MTV Weekend)
Pigs On The Wing (Battersea Power Station)
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives (live in London - 1980)
Another Brick In The Wall - part II (promo)
A Collection Of Great Dance Songs (TV Commercial)
Pink Floyd The Wall (theatrical trailer)
When The Tigers Broke Free (promo)
The Gunner's Dream (from the "Final Cut" video EP)
The Final Cut (same as above)
Not Now John (same as above)
The Fletcher Memorial Home (same as above)
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (US TV AD)
Learning To Fly - Version #1 (promo)
On The Turning Away (live promo)
Dogs Of War (live promo - from Pink Floyd Weekend, I think)
Signs of Life (excerpt - from Pink Floyd Weekend on MTV)
One Slip (live promo - Italian TV)
Learning To Fly - Version #2 (promo)
Win A Plane (MTV contest)

Total Length - 180 min

Whew! Long list!
Anyways, was it good ?  No.  Actually, it was rather varied.  All
the stuff like The Scarecrow and See Emily Play and Apples and
Oranges seemed like the band had a camera for a day and couldn't
quite decide what to do with it. They ran around in a park and
played pretend instruments, then they ran around in circles,
laughing, then they played in trees, etc.  Very pointless.  Also,
the film quality sucked.  The Syd Interveiw segment was glaringly
bad.  The tape I purchased is an obvious dub from a master tape,
and a very moderate copy at that.  The whole film is plagued with
that fuzziness you get whenever you pirate a movie from your
local Dillons so you don't have to rent it again.

The concerts shown were sloppy to say the least, even the shots
from The Wall (the original tour, not Berlin) were bad.  The only
concert footage that seemed really well done was from The
Momentary Lapse Tour.

The best part was the When The Tigers Broke Free promo.  It was
footage from The Wall, but in a different sequence and from
various songs.  In the background was the whole song, as
originally composed.  (ie, in one unit, not two as in the The
Wall).

Other neato parts are the Pigs On The Wing's footage of the pig
being placed between the smoke stacks of the power plant and the
footage for Point Me At The Sky (which was color mostly and not
completely pointless), plus of course the only known footage of
Syd's Floyd live (playing Astronomy Domine!).  I was somewhat
disappointed by the Final Cut EP video footage, in that it was
pretty much trash when compared to The Wall, which Roger had just
finished working on.... I would have thought he could have done a
better job....

Two other remarks to make, then I'll stop...1) it was cool to see
the rare first version of the Learning To Fly video, which I
hadn't seen before.. 2) It was really funny to see Roger try to
lip-synch to Apples & Oranges!! (He did a _horrible_ job.)

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It was reissued in 1995.  It is now available as two tapes(Tape one from
1967-73 and Tape two from 1973-94).  It now has Interstellar Overdrive from
Tonight, Let's All Make Love in London, Apples and Oranges from American
Bandstand in 1967, Any Colour You Like from the same show as Careful With That
Axe, Eugene.  Plus, Yet Another Movie from July, 1989, Shine On... from
Knebworth '90, On the Run backdrop film, Run Like Hell from November, 1987,
the Take it Back and High Hopes videos and Keep Talking from Foxboro Stadium
in May, 1994.  They deleted the Dance Songs and Momentary Lapse ads and the
French Windows One of These Days video.


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	It is probibly safe to say that there is a third video anthology out 
there. THAT'S RIGHT, A THIRD VIDEO ANTHOLOGY! 

	Here is the setlist of videos that it contains:

Arnold Layne (excerpt from promo)
Interstellar Overdrive (excerpt from Granada TV)
Astronomy Domine (Live at the Round House)
Syd Barrett Interveiw (BBC - ~30 secs long)
The Scarecrow (Pathe Newsreel)
Apples and Oranges (promo - the one w/ Roger lip-synching)
See Emily Play (promo)
A Saucerful of Secrets (excerpts from 1968 & mid 70's)
Set The Controls... (excerpts from 1968)
Astronomy Domine (promo)
The Scarecrow (promo)
Point Me At The Sky (promo)
Atom Heart Mother (Tokyo)
A Saucerful Of Secrets (Holland Pop Festival)
Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Australian TV 1971)
Set The Controls... (from "Heart Of The Sun" film - 1973)
Careful With That Axe, Eugene ("Superstars In Concert" - 1973)
Brian Damage/Eclipse (backdrop film - from MTV Weekend)
Welcome To The Machine (backdrop film - from MTV Weekend)
Pigs On The Wing (Battersea Power Station)
Another Brick In The Wall - part II (promo)
When The Tigers Broke Free (promo)
The Gunner's Dream (from the "Final Cut" video EP)
The Final Cut (same as above)
Not Now John (same as above)
The Fletcher Memorial Home (same as above)
Learning To Fly - Version #1 (promo version, not the Mtv version)*

*BONUS 


	The reason why they only added certain things in this video was to 
put some of the stuff from both anthologys for both, money wise and time sake.

	I made a comparison to this video from the other videos above for 
quality sake. They cutted some parts off of the Saucerful of Secret excerpts, 
certain videos (like ABitW2 & WtTBF) seem to have lowered generation 
qualities (when I mean lower, I mean worse) than the on the other video 
anthologys, and some of the adverts for the Mtv PF weekend videos seem to be 
cut out (for instance, the beginning of the WttM video). But, the intro to 
Arnold Layne on this video is different than the ones on the other 
anthologys. The video starts off in slow motion with the picture of the 
ground. While the other anthologys starts the video at normal speed.

	I don't know if it's the same people who made the other video 
anthologys, or different people all together. But, whoever made this seem to 
got the videos from the original 3 hour anthology from above. For 2 reasons: 
First, the quality wasn't the greatest or the worse. Secondly, the Pigs on 
the Wings promo didn't have that picture disc in the beginning.

	Whoever distributed made some errors. For instance, the box reads 
"VIDEO ANTHOLOGY 1969-71" when it should read 1967-87. Secondly, when I 
popped in the video, there was blue intro screen that says "PINK FLOYD VIDEO 
ANTHOLOGY 1967-82." Unless, it was originaly intended to be to 1982, until 
they found out that they had more room to add one more video. That's why I 
put LtF as a possible bonus video, for that reason.


COVER: The cover was printed on yellow layout paper. the front has a picture 
of a  enlarged Pink Floyd patch. The back reads ''VIDEO ANTHOLOGY 1969-71" in 
large, black, capital letters. PLEASE, don't be fooled by the years.

PRICE: I've seen this video at many record stores. They go for around $20-$25.

RUNNING TIME: about 2 hours.

GRADE: A-/B-