The Velvet Forum

dsulpy wrote:THAT'S a boring hour long jam...

Bite your tongue, I'll take a dozen!

What about that long rumoured "Boston '67" footage?

dsulpy wrote:I can see that happening. I mean, really, what use is the Exploding Plastic Inevitable film besides the soundtrack? 10 minutes of beyond jerky pretentious garbage footage, with NO clear footage of the band. Ugh.

The thing is, those 10 minutes are condensed from a full WEEK of shows that Nameth filmed. The reason it's all superimposed and sped-up and so on is that it's an attempt to convey the whole sensory experience of an EPI show. I bet he has (or did have at one time) enough footage to re-edit into a 'straight' in-concert film.

i disagree, it would have been shot like that i'm quite sure.

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Mark wrote: The thing is, those 10 minutes are condensed from a full WEEK of shows that Nameth filmed. The reason it's all superimposed and sped-up and so on is that it's an attempt to convey the whole sensory experience of an EPI show. I bet he has (or did have at one time) enough footage to re-edit into a 'straight' in-concert film.

See the 1970 review from 'Expanded Cinema' magazine on Olivier's site...

EPI was photographed on color and black-and-white stock during one week of performances by Warhol's troupe. Because the environment was dark, and because of the flash-cycle of the strobe lights, Nameth shot at eight frames per second and printed the footage at the regular twenty-four fps. In addition he developed a mathematical curve for repeated frames and superimpositions, so that the result is an eerie world of semi-slow motion agaisnt an aural background of incredible frenzy. Colors were superimposed over black-and-white negatives and vice-versa. An extraordinary off-color grainy effect resulted from pushing the ASA rating of his color stock; thus the images often seem to lose their cohesiveness as though wrenched apart by the sheer force of the environment.

For me, this confirms that Nameth had a lot of footage to screw around with and we only get to see part of it in the fininshed film.

Mark wrote:Bump!
It seems Esquire Records is no more. Wonder if anything ever happened to this project?

there are (at least) a couple of DVD compilations from Upbeat making the rounds, I still haven't got them... but I don't think there'll be any VU in there, otherwise we'd all know about it

Doc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWY8UyW ... ture=share

Here is my friend Alex Chilton with the Box Tops on Upbeat. Where are the Velvet Underground??!!