Originally Posted by
GuitarGeek
Yea, it's not surprising there's gaps in the footage. Shooting a live performance is a difficult process, especially back in those days, and I imagine there were lots of places where the cameramen had to change reels, causing them to miss something we would most definitely want to see on film/video. There was probably also places where the camera packed up and so there's more bits of coverage that were lost, etc.
BTW, you want to talk about sync issues, I read once that Ken Kesey wanted to make a film of some sort of footage he shot on one the Merry Pranksters' trips on the Furthur bus. The problem being, the were running the audio recorder off the bus' motor, and every time the bus sped up or slowed down, it affected the tape machine. So the audio recording was completely unusable, until technology came along that allowed them correct the pitch variations on the tapes. Of course, given that this was the Merry Pranksters we're talking about, the tape speeding up and slowing down at random intervals probably would make for a more accurate portrayal of the state of mind most of them were in.
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