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Post by Robbie on Sept 24, 2005 16:56:35 GMT
Does anything of the Bonzos on TV exist?Aside from their appearances on Do Not Adjust Your Set and whatevers left of their appearance on Colour Me Pop.
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Post by Zab on Sept 24, 2005 17:14:36 GMT
Clips of them on German TVs "Beat Club" are in circulation - these feature performances of "Equestrian Statue", "Little Sir Echo" (with hilarious ventriloquist routine!), "Urban Spaceman" and "Canyons Of Your Mind".
I believe there are other clips that survive though not many. I was downloading a BBC4 doc on Vivian Stanshall... unfortunately I only got 4% of it, but in the brief clip I can see of it, theres another clip of "Little Sir Echo" with Vivian looking rather fresh-faced.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Sept 25, 2005 6:25:58 GMT
There's also their New Faces appearance from 1967 surviving plus a short film they made in 1969. They were also in Magical Mystery Tour and made a few promo films. Not sure what else is out there...I'd like to know myself.
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Post by andrew martin on Sept 25, 2005 11:25:40 GMT
There's an appearance on "Blue Peter" 28/2/66 performing "Bill Bailey".
There's an item on "Nationwide" 8/11/73 about the single "Window in the Doggy That is Much How" (released under the name 'Rover' apparently...)
There is another item from the programme "Ten Years of What" (28/12/69) from which some uncut takes exist (including an introduction by Jimmy Savile - nothing to do with "Pop Go The Sixties" incidentally).
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Post by Garrett Gilchrist on Sept 27, 2005 6:17:20 GMT
Wow - Andrew Martin - would love more information about the stuff you've just mentioned, as I'd never heard of any of it.
There is a lot of Bonzo footage still in existence actually. Recently I compiled a whole bunch of it for an unofficial DVD called Talking Pictures, which I just did for my own edification to figure out what was out there. It's over two hours long.
After I did that DVD, more material turned up (from the Pathe and Reelin in the Years archives, from New Faces, and Viv Stanshall on One Man's Week), so I'll be doing a second installment.
We do know that the Bonzos appeared on The Tonight Show once, but have never seen it. Their full appearance on Showtime doing "A Room With a View" I'd like to dig up too.
Here's the tracklisting for Talking Pictures, done thanks to the official Neil Innes website, neilinnes.org, and their tape archive. You can get more info by emailing me a tygerbug at yahoo dot com.
Intro (dog) Death Cab for Cutie (MMT) Hello (We Are Normal) Canyons of Your Mind (CMP) I'm the Urban Spaceman (CMP) Equestrian Statue/Newsflash (BC) Little Sir Echo (BC) 4 Fables/Seaside Poem (IBOR) Mr. Apollo (CMP) Sinister (IBOR) By a Waterfall (DNAYS) Merry Christmas (DNAYS) I'm the Urban Spaceman (DNAYS) Head Ballet (Pathe) Equestrian Statue (Pathe) The Bride Stripped Bare by "Bachelors" (montage) Beautiful Zelda (DNAYS) 11 Moustachioed Daughters (BiG GRunt) Room With a View (The Big Show) Little Sir Echo (New Faces) Adventures of the Son of Exploding Sausage (clip) Canyons of Your Mind (BC) I'm the Urban Spaceman (BC) DNAYS sketches Ready-Mades (montage) I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (Full House) Humanoid Boogie (IBOR reedit) We Were Wrong ("Urban Spaceman" minstrel promo montage) Jollity Farm (cartoon) I'm the Urban Spaceman (IBOR) Vivian Stanshall: Rawlinson End/Wheelbarrow/Nice and Tidy (montage) Quiet Talks and Summer Walks (IBOR reedit) Rawlinson End clip: "Riddles" Vivian: Imagination (montage) I'm the Urban Spaceman (RWT) Vivian: Suspicion/The Cracks Are Showing (montage) The End (New Faces) I'd Rather Cut My Hands (Crank) Fishing (OMW)
Plus DNAYS performances from the official DVDs: Monster Mash The Sound of Music Metaphorically Speaking Love is a Cylindrical Piano Tubas in the Moonlight Death Cab for Cutie Hunting Tigers Out in "Indiah" Equestrian Statue Hello Mabel Look Out, There's a Monster Coming
Bonus features: Full House with Roger Ruskin-Spear Friday Night, Saturday Morning with Vivian Stanshall Vivian Stanshall Adverts: Ruddles, Cadbury's (3), Tennent Eric Idle sings Captain Fantastic Karaoke feature
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Post by Laurence Piper on Sept 27, 2005 12:33:42 GMT
There is another item from the programme "Ten Years of What" (28/12/69) from which some uncut takes exist (including an introduction by Jimmy Savile - nothing to do with "Pop Go The Sixties" incidentally). You've got my curiosity now, Andrew! What are the full takes actually of? Is it CVT or colour film material too? I'd just heard of this one before. Oh, a definitive DVD is crying out to be released! Incidentally, what is the quality of the surviving clip of Mr.Apollo (Colour Me Pop) like? I understand it's a b/w tr (this also presumably means that the chances of the whole show surviving are higher). I was told that CMP sold well abroad - can anyone confirm this?
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Post by Robbie on Sept 27, 2005 15:54:41 GMT
Haven't seen the Colour Me Pop clip of Mr Apollo,but the other clips from that programme are in colour.I don't believe the whole show exists.
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Post by andrew martin on Sept 27, 2005 17:51:20 GMT
There is another item from the programme "Ten Years of What" (28/12/69) from which some uncut takes exist (including an introduction by Jimmy Savile - nothing to do with "Pop Go The Sixties" incidentally). You've got my curiosity now, Andrew! What are the full takes actually of? Is it CVT or colour film material too? I'd just heard of this one before. Oh, a definitive DVD is crying out to be released! Incidentally, what is the quality of the surviving clip of Mr.Apollo (Colour Me Pop) like? I understand it's a b/w tr (this also presumably means that the chances of the whole show surviving are higher). I was told that CMP sold well abroad - can anyone confirm this? The "Ten Years of What" clip is colour VT - can't remember what the track is, I'll try to find it (it should be on the PasB paperwork...) No idea about Mr Apollo - the only material we have logged against the "Colour Me Pop" edition is some colour film sequences which disappeared years ago - no idea what was on them or what happened to them. The VT excerpts are logged with other material collected by Bob Pratt on an engineering programme number (ie stuff used by VT staff for various reasons including training in years gone by is held separately from tx'd programmes on the computer system - one day I must log it all properly... Though it's pretty much all on "Sound of the Sixties"/"...Seventies").
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Post by Garrett Gilchrist on Sept 28, 2005 22:23:14 GMT
I am itching to find out more about these finds, Andrew!
There's a black and white transfer of Mr. Apollo which is awful quality, and a color transfer which is also awful and seems to have been made by filming the screen with a camcorder or something, I'm not sure when.
I'm fairly sure the BBC doesn't have a proper copy anymore, sadly. But there's gotta be a copy somewhere, who knows where ...
The full outtakes from the color film Pathe session, of Head Ballet and Equestrian Statue, also exist, I've got 'em in nice quality. Pretty.
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Post by andrew martin on Sept 29, 2005 12:22:15 GMT
The material on "Ten Years of What" turns out to be specially composed material (at least is seems so from the PasB) - it's listed as "Opening music", "No title" and "Closing music", with durations of 30", 1'23" and 1'08", all unpublished.
The programme itself seems (it's not clear) to have been live, with VT and film inserts.
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