Intresting Info About Earls Court 1977

Hi!

I want to share with you this info wich i found in Youtube... is from a guy who aparently was on camera during the gig:
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"The concert was shot by Zoom Television and recorded on 2" reel tape.
Betamax tape was around but was not used in professionally. Betacam
wasn't introduced until 1982. The cameras were Philips LDK 3's The
concert was only recorded as an afterthought. Cameras were to provide
pictures for the screen? above stage which was new then. Brian mentions
'We will get as close as we can' The projector was called an Eiderphor
I was a cameraman stage right and I'm glad you are enjoying the concert."
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"I was on camera at this concert. It was one of the first concerts to
have a large screen above the stage and we were supplying the feed. (
Zoom Television ) The middle section was played off tape to the screen
while the band rushed off stage and changed. If you listen carefully as
the tape starts you can hear it 'wow' This is actually how it happened
on the night. The replay was off? U matic tape. The original recording
was made on? 2" tape."
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I think It´s intresting to know that the original recording was made on 2" tape (like -aparently- rainbow nov 1974)
As he´s talking about the first night i will ask him about the second night ...

Here´s a photo of a philips LDK 3´s camera:

http://www.tvcameramuseum.org/philips/ldk3/pictures/ldk3camera45deg750c10.jpg 

Cheers!

Very interesting stuff.  Thanks for posting.

Sir GH wrote: Very interesting stuff.  Thanks for posting.
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Yeah! it´s indeed a very intresting stuff! i added a photo of the camera wich was used (i don´t remeber where but i saw an audience pic from earls court wich shows a very similar camera... i only remeber that the image was very moved)
I hope the cameramen can reply my question about the second night!

Cheers!

Very interesting, thanks for the info

Been trying to find info on Zoom Television Ltd for years, but nothing available that I can see.

Can you find out if each camera was recording onto 2" tape, or if it was just the feed that was recorded?

hey, cool, thanks!  :)

I think it's more interesting to know that it was filmed for a large screen for the audience.  I never knew this and will explain the constant close ups and lack of mid shots and audience shots which i have always criticized it for.

We've actually known that for years !

The same thing goes for Houston.  But as we saw in the new documentary, there are a ton of angles with the Bob Harris footage in the mix too.

KevoM wrote: I think it's more interesting to know that it was filmed for a large screen for the audience.  I never knew this and will explain the constant close ups and lack of mid shots and audience shots which i have always criticized it for.
and that's why they maybe don't release this in future on dvd / br ....

Interesting info. Thanks for sharing with us!

This is cool stuff. Thank you for that. Zeppelin did the same thing at Earls Court in 1975.

Earl's Court was an AMAZING concert in terms of performance by all members of the band and Freddie's interaction with the audience, but the only complaint I have is that I wish that it had been shot from a wider variety of angles...there are soooo many songs where the camera man focuses on just one band member for almost a minute (or sometimes even several minutes) at a time! But I guess as far as 70's concerts go, Earl's Court was pretty good quality...soI guess I really can't complain too much, lol.

hauntofroulettedares wrote: Earl's Court was an AMAZING concert in terms of performance by all members of the band and Freddie's interaction with the audience, but the only complaint I have is that I wish that it had been shot from a wider variety of angles...there are soooo many songs where the camera man focuses on just one band member for almost a minute (or sometimes even several minutes) at a time! But I guess as far as 70's concerts go, Earl's Court was pretty good quality...soI guess I really can't complain too much, lol.

That's much better than the DoRo twins or the Wembley editing where the camera never stays on anything for longer than half a second.

HELLO
I HAVE QUESTION
In the middle of the song "You take my breath away"  from Earl`s Court 1977 is a rumbling, which was removed from the publication " absolute greatest video" and the reissue of the album "A Day at the races." The question is in the reissue of this video was used soundboard or used denoising?