Re: IOW Editing

["Schrade, Scott" <sschrade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> To get around this they either cut the songs down or used footage from 
> others songs to fill in the gaps.  The latter is why you hear Pete taking 
> a solo while you see him playing chords and such.

"Heaven & Hell" has a lot of that but I don't remember too much of it
from later on in the film (then again, I haven't watched it in a while).

The Woodstock movie does the same thing.  Footage from "Sparks" is shown
while "Summertime Blues" is playing.  During the solo.

> The other thing is on the DVD they added an insane amount of crowd noise 
> and made up noise from the studio.  This is why you see a shot of a girl 
> in the crowd laughing and you "hear" her laughing, this was added  while 
> working on the DVD some 25 years later.

I always wince when I see that part.  It's so "fakey," as my mother would 
say.  It's akin to what's called "sweetening" the applause, where louder
applause is added later because of a less than enthusiastic crowd.

But I've always been somewhat skeptical of the "cameramen fell asleep"
story.  Sleeping a few feet away from The Who while they're performing?
Even allowing for drugs this seems suspect for cameramen whose jobs &
livelihood depend on their competence at their craft.

And even if cameras ran out of film & had to be changed, they couldn't
*all* have needed changing at the same time.  

But......stranger things have happened.


- SCHRADE in Akron

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