These 'strobe cuts' (I'm not sure that term really means, but in-camera edits sounds accurate) sound like the technique Warhol used in the 1967 Boston film of the VU.mangue wrote: ↑26 May 2022 11:29 Just started checking some of my Up-tight detail questions in Unterberger's White Light/White Heat book, didn't find anything new about WYTiD, but found this as related and very interesting [to me at least]:
p145 [1967.April - Also...]:
Gregg Barrios notes that he supplied footage of Nico singing 'It Was A Pleasure Then' with The Velvet Underground for the promotional video put together by the Elektra label for the 1991 CD reissue of Nico's 1968 LP The Marble Index. This performance, he explains, was not shot at a concert, but as "a set-up for a later film called ****. The guys are in the background, [but] Andy just focuses on [Nico]. He was experimenting with these [strobe cuts], doing editing in the camera where you shut it off and then you reset the camera, then you turn it back on again. So it would say, 'It was a pleasure bztt bztt bztt then,' or something like that. It was staged somewhere in New York City." As far as Barrios recalls, this sequence is used to open ****, which will barely be screened at all on its ‘release’ in December 1967 before becoming inaccessible to public viewing.
(If it could be found and restored with sound, **** would be a holy grail for those seeking footage of The Velvet Underground performing an actual song.)
I was flabbergasted! A promo video for the reissue of The Marble Index containing live footage [and audio?] of IWaPT.
Anybody knows more about this? Has may be seen/heard this? Etc...
With regards that final remark in the quote, I doubt a final version of '****' ever existed, as it was a long composit film of Warhol's film work. The other title was The 24 Hour Movie, and in fact the movie was said to be 25 hours long. ([Koch]