I thought I’d share with you a great moment for me. They must have had more copies of the “Rockestra” film though, because they were able to edit together a very good promo for the “Rockestra Theme” for the Wingspan DVD. Which is why the soundtrack is vastly superior to the images we see. What I’m getting at here, is that perhaps the one and only print of the film was stolen, and the version you’re watching on the officially released DVD is simply copied from a DVD bootleg? And even though the film itself was unavailable, they still had the sound tapes, of course there’d be copies of it in the Abbey Road Studio vault. Perhaps the original owner didn’t want to share a quality version and copied the film a few times over himself, in order to have something unique. If you could get a copy from the original owner of the smuggled out film, it would of course be quite brilliant.
And both picture and sound quality would suffer for each generation of the video you would get. The problem with trading VHS tapes was of course that, depending on your source, you would get a degraded copy, a dub of a dub of a dub. Qualitywise, they were in pretty bad shape, but still they were something new to watch, and having these unreleased films was a bit exciting. Some time in the late eighties or thereabout, two leaked films started to appear on the lists I got from fellow Beatles video collectors around the world, one was “One Hand Clapping”, the other was the “Rockestra” footage. I’m an avid video collector and have been since the first VCR was brought into the family in 1981.
#One hand clapping paul mccartney movie#
Has the original movie footage been stolen?
#One hand clapping paul mccartney archive#
So I was thinking, this film was professionally filmed in Abbey Road studios and filed away in McCartney’s vast archive of unrealised movie and film projects, it should have been in pristine quality. Perhaps an indication of what we will find on upcoming bonus DVD’s from the “McCartney” and “Red Rose Speedway” albums? What surprised me was that the footage shown from the “One Hand Clapping” film was of bootleg quality, picturewise.
But yesterday I had the opportunity to watch the ITV “Making of Band on the Run” TV special, and they were using archive footage both from the bonus DVD, as well as some home movie footage of a bearded Paul with Linda and the kids and also a couple of scenes from the 1973 “James Paul McCartney” TV special. So I haven’t been able to purchase “Band On The Run” yet. So far, Universal (who is distributing Paul McCartney’s Archive Series here in Norway) hasn’t managed to get their new product into the shops.
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