PINK FLOYD - The Story (BBC Omnibus 1994) - REV.A
[ This Place Records TPR DVD 001 ]

ratio : 4:3
video : 8000kbps
audio : LPCM Stereo
length: 40 minutes
source: Master PAL VHS

Details:

This is the very first DVD release of my little label called "This Place Records" (the referred place should be well known to any serious Floyd fan and appears during the opening and closing tracks of the DVD; this is one of the most beautiful places in the world and I used extracts from my private film, shot during my honeymoon trip, for these DVD intro & outro; don't worry, my honeymoon trip is not the main subject of the DVD ;-)).
Back in 1994, I taped this excellent documentary when it was broadcast by BBC TV. I decided to transfer my Master PAL VHS to digital format when I realised that it could be a nice upgrade, compared to the best version of the documentary circulating until now, by our friends from Psychedelic Closet Records (sorry, Scott... ;-)).
This 40 minute documentary was aired by BBC TV on November 15, 1994, just before the broadcast of the Earl's Court show filmed a few weeks before, on October 20. Even if the documentary was produced at the time of the Division Bell tour (Roger Waters refused to be interviewed for that program), the post-Waters era is only briefly mentioned (during the last 2 minutes). The rest is focused on the band's history with Waters. The documentary not only features interviews with the 3 Pink Floyd members of the time, but it also includes interesting interviews with a lot of people closely related to the band: Andrew King, Joe Boyd, Mike Leonard, Storm Thorgerson, Ron Geesin, Clare Torry, Douglas Adams...
It also contains rare archival footage such as extracts from 1968 Tomorrow's World program, and a very unique film showing the band recording Marooned in Gilmour's houseboat studio, the Astoria, with Bob Ezrin playing the bass (this recording session is only shown very briefly, and mainly in a small incrusted image during the ending credits; this rare footage was used, in slight slow motion and full screen, for the DVD menus).
The original version was in mono, but since then, I managed to find an excellent stereo audio track, that was used for this Rev.A.
I hope you'll enjoy this nice upgrade. I think that the only possible improvement would be to find the pre-broadcast tape used by BBC TV!
Enjoy!