CRYSTAL VOYAGER?

does anyone know what CRYSTAL VOYAGER is? I think its a movie that uses Pink Floyd music, but what tracks and what year was it made?

Haven't the slightest idear, sorry.

Crystal Voyager
1973 - 78 min.
David Elfick - Director

Shot on location in California and Australia, Crystal Voyager follows American surfer, filmmaker, and inventor George Greenough on his search for the perfect wave. This documentary focuses specifically on Greenough's attempts to build a camera that would capture the majesty of surfing. The film follows Greenough's several abortive attempts to build a camera light enough to sit on a surfboard. The film also discusses Greenough's other innovations, such as the flexible fin which made surfing "in the tube" possible. The film builds to the final, famous twenty-three minute "Echoes" sequence comprised of footage shot by Greenough from his board. Stunningly majestic, the footage allows the viewer to experience the ocean as never before and occupies the middle ground between early Lumiere films and today's IMAX — all to the music of Pink Floyd. A major critical, popular and experimental success, Crystal Voyager was lauded at Cannes and by American critics.

*courtesy of allmovie.com

Very nice Thorin, I have been looking for this video for some time....... have you actually seen it.....? My art teacher from High School ( who was a big time hippie ) bought it to my attention back in the 80's and have been looking since !

nope never seen it.

Damn fine work, thorin13!

If I'm not, it looks as though another milleposter is scouting for a moderator's position.

And here's some more info from the DigiGuide UK site:

"...
Majestic, trippy visuals, a psych-out soundtrack from acid meisters Pink Floyd, and the riders' beach bum philosophy should chill you quicker than toking on a doobie in Iceland.

It's a shock to discover that nobody rode the tube (that pocket of air created by a wave as it curls over itself) until Greenough's film. But in fact, it was from his studies of wave dynamics that the flexible fin was created - an essential development in surfboard technology for tackling the monstrous, rolling edifices that are the undoubted stars of this extraordinary film.

Dilys Powell of the Sunday Times was overcome by the "astonishing and beautiful camera work," while John Coleman of the New Statesman waxed lyrical - "the pictures are, putting it mildly, remarkable - molten water and men moving on it with unique grace - tunnels, spirals, worlds of waves - and humanoids on top." As for Alexander Walker: "Perspectives flatten a seascape into a field of ploughed-up furrows. Slow motion reveals the multitudinous beauties of sea water. Sometimes a wide-angled lens distorts the horizon's curvature: the world becomes a green ball you can throw up and catch...To see it all stone cold sober on a wintry morning is exhilarating. To see it 'stoned'... must be out of this world."
- http://www.digiguide.com/pdb/p_27114.shtml

And you can buy the PAL format video at http://www.amazon.co.uk

you all better hope i don't get a moderator status cause i will rule this forum with an iron fist!

<cringes in terror>

There's no terror in your threats, thorin13.

You'll end up as "whipped" as the former Poop King (remember him?) once you've had conferred upon you the style and status of MODERATOR: "Wouldn't say BOO to a goose."

good ol' BoaB. always good for a larf.

Oui. C'est moi.

humm that could be a lot of fun . . .

all you insolent bastards will pay.

all you insolent bastards will pay.