All My Loving
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Data: 1968 |
Tony Palmer Presents... All My Loving Rebroadcast on June 5th 2004 to launch their "Summer In The Sixties" series, BBC4 presented Tony Palmer's, ALL MY LOVING. This 1968 film looked at the truth and the realities of late 60's popular music while giving viewers a great big slice of those psychedelic, creative and turbulent times. Psychedelic Closet Records is proud to present this incredible program on DVD direct from BBC4 digital broadcast. Artists included are Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and many others. First broadcast in November 1968 in black and white, the following year saw a colour broadcast, and onedestined to put strain on the red guns of television tubes thanks to Pink Floyd's Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. Anyone who is familiar with the three minute performance, knows that, with the exception of the very beginning, the recording was electronically treated to bathe the band in vivid red. A very interesting and effective trick, it complements the short but sweet performance well. |
One of the "Pink Floyd things" that most frustrated me for a
long time is that there are a bunch of groovy documentaries out there that
contain short Pink Floyd fragments, but people always cut out the Floyd bits and
put them together on clip tapes. Rarely, if ever, do they share the complete
documentaries.
Happily enough, the nice folks who inhabit my Psychedelic Closet have recently
stumbled upon quite a number of these documentaries. The first is called "All My
Loving". It was made in 1968. The original TV broadcast was in black & white -
but it was later rebroadcast in color several times. The version that circulates
most widely was taped in the middle 1980s... and the picture quality is
generally pretty darn horrible. Most recently, BBC4 rebroadcast the film on the
5th of June in 2004. A friend of ours recorded this broadcast on his computer
and authored the DVD. This DVD is in PAL. It'll play in the vast majority of
newer American DVD players, but older NTSC players will probably balk at it.
Who would care about this film ? Well..... It's got music by Jimi Hendrix, Cream,
The Beatles, The Animals, and Pink Floyd (of course). Frank Zappa speaks his
mind as does Paul McCartney. The film is "about" pop music. Remember while you
watch it that it is directed towards an audience in 1968. There is a huge number
of Hans Keller types who bash pop music and attempt to apply all kinds of
completely ludicrous logic & arguments - attempting to explain that it's .. you
know ... terribly loud. When I first saw it, I kept asking myself, "What were
they thinking ?" It would have been easy to formulate half-way reasonable
arguments against pop music if they'd only tried a little harder.. As it is, the
critics come off looking very silly. But, of course, some of the pop icons did
little to help their cause ... Jimi Hendrix, especially, probably shouldn't have
agreed to talk with the came! ra crew...
Intermixed with the music, from time to time, is combat footage from the Vietnam
War. Some of it is extremely graphic and absolutely should NOT be seen by
children or generally by those of a delicate nature.
Added: 07.04.2007
