1971 actually....
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There are now 3 different releases of this film:
* The original theatrical version from 1971 is about 60 minutes long and only has the recordings from Pompeii.
* In 1973 a new "full length version" was released with new clips added. Director Adrian Maben had visited Pink Floyd in the studio while they were recording the historical album Dark Side of The Moon. These sequences from the studio, interviews and footage of Pink Floyd eating oysters and applepie in the Abbey Road Studios were put in between the original songs. The full length version runs for about 80 minutes.
* For the newly released DVD we finally have soemthing called the "directors cut". Again Adrian Maben went back to the editing table, but this time he should probably have stayed away. The films original opening sequence has been changed into some poor CGI animations of planets circling around in space and a rocket launching (completely uninteresting and doesn't match the great Pompeii footage). The long and daring zoom in Echoes part 1 has been cut in pieces. Other old clips from the dustbin has also been added: suddenly we see an old lady crossing the street in front of Abbey Road or a bus passing. In the last part of the film we fly through a computer animated version of the old Pompeii. Makes you think of Discovery Channel and is all in all distracting and out of content. The directora cut is 92 minuntes long.
... The DVD features two versions of the film: The directors cut and the original 1971 version.
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I guess technically Botley was right about the 1973, if he was referring to the one most people knew about and saw... Also, the above quote would mean that the clips from the studio-work was filmed in 73.
imdb.com states that it was from 1972. The cinema premiere of the film was Sept 1972....... (being the 1971 version)
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