Title: Oslo, Norway, 30 August 1994

This video exists in both PAL (European except France) and NTSC (American)
video formats. The NTSC version which I have was converted fairly well,
except that when the camera is moved quickly or something fast happens,
the picture tends to shear a little. The problem is minor, and exists because
the show was filmed in PAL at 25 frames a second and was converted to NTSC
at 30 frames per second. 

Setlist: Standard non-DSOTM show opening with Astronomy Domine, and
         Marooned as the second encore. This is one of the two times that
         Marooned has ever been played twice. This has only ever occurred
         in Oslo, Norway, as a protest against the killing of whales for
         food. 

Position: Distant, from left-hand side of stage and on an embankment above
          most of the audience. 

Length: 155 minutes. Estimated, since my video does not count time correctly
        when playing NTSC tapes.

Comments: This is a great video, and the copy I have is very sharp and clear
with very few dropouts.

The show starts during the day, and as night falls the effects become better
and better until the last song, Run Like Hell, where the distance of the
camera-operator becomes an advantage as the spectacular visual effects of
the entire stage, and the lasers can be seen. There is also a spectacular 
shot of the mirror-ball during Comfortably Numb, where you can see almost
the entire crowd underneath it. 

The camera-work is fairly stable in most parts of the video, although the
zoom-ins are quite blurry because of the distances involved. You don't get
to see much of the individual band members, but the special effects are
very well recorded. There are several shots of Mr. Screen which are clear,
fairly stable, and do not suffer from flicker. The crowd is quite well 
behaved, crowd noise being largely restricted to clapping along to a couple
of the songs. For the first couple of minutes, there is a girl standing in
front of the camera but she gets out of the way. There is otherwise-unseen
footage of whales displayed when Marooned is played, which also has some
great guitar whale-sounds from David Gilmour, which play on the 
improvisational nature of the song.

Sound quality: Ex- to Ex. By boosting the bass of this recording by about
   25 decibels, and a few judicious boosts in the midrange area, I have 
   gotten Ex+ sound from my copy. Otherwise you just tend to hear the lead
   guitar and keyboards. A lot of the 'feel' of the instruments is lost
   unless the midrange is boosted. All in all, there is very little about
   the sound quality that cannot be easily fixed. The sound is a lot better
   than many videos I have seen that sound terrible because of the use of
   the built-in microphone, which is designed to exclude distant sounds.

-HAMISH

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I have confirmed the date as 30 August 1994.
There are five known different videos of 30 August 1994 circulating.

Set list: Astronomy Domine, Learning To Fly, What Do You Want From Me, On 
The Turning Away, Poles Apart, Take It Back, Sorrow, Keep Taking, One Of 
These Days. Set 2: Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Breath, Time, Breathe 
Reprise, High Hopes, The Great Gig In The Sky, Wish You Were Here, Us and 
Them, Money, Another Brick In The Wall, Comfortably Numb, **Marooned**, 
Run Like Hell.

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Oslo, Norway 29 August 1994. There are 3 known videos of this show in 
circulation.

Set list: Astronomy Domine, Learning To Fly, What Do You Want From Me, On 
The Turning Away, Take It Back, Coming Back to Life, Sorrow. From this 
point the setlist is the same as 29 August 1994.

-HAMISH