fairlight dijo:

Éste es el vídeo que tenía que haber sido incluido en la reedición de 2009 de Tubular Bells, pero que se descartó a última hora. Está en alta definición.

NOSOYESTO dijo:

Investigando un poco sobre este "vídeo fantasma" (aparentemente la primera emisión "ever" de Tubular Bells) he dado con dos referencias interesantes:

La primera, del libro "Cupid Stunts: The Life and Radio Times of Kenny Everett" David Stafford, Caroline Stafford (2013). Transcribo parte de su capítulo 7, donde describe cómo empezó el tema de los vídeos musicales en la TV:

There were two shools of thought about putting pop on TV. The first went for the club or dance hall approcah; largely successful in Ready Stady Go!, less so in the always slightly naff Top Of The Pops. The second went for the concert approach; again largely succesful in Oh, Boy!, less so in Thank Your Lucky Stars.

TV executives looked at the straightforward simplicity and this downright cool or radio's approach - a bloke (or, by this time, Annie Nightingale) talking about stuff or doing stuff, interrupted quite frequently by records - with envy, and wndered "How can we do that?"

The problem - obviously - was pictures. Having the band play live or mime in the studio ramped up costs and, unless the band made a bit of an effort, could be dull. Eventually bands would learn to co-operate by producing their own videos and MTV would be born, but until then what could you do?
One solution, eagerly grasped by the Kenny Everett Explosion, as it would be a year later by The Old Grey Whistle Test, was old film clips.

As Whistle Test's Bob Harris says: "There were no videos at that point - we used old cartoons. If you had, say, a Steve Miller Band track, there was no film form America, no video, so what do you do with this track? Mike [the producer Mike Appleton] gave it to Philip Jenkinson, who was the treat film archivist - he had rooms full of old movies. He'd be playing the Steve Miller track and opening up cans of film and going through the images and then cutting it all to the beat of the music. he had an amazing instinct for matching the right track with the right film. The combination of "Tubular Bells" with old film of skiers on the white, white snow was always one of my favourites. Funnily enough, the early rappers started doing this later."


La segunda, del foro "snowheads.com" (concretamente http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=1626614), donde alguien, reconociendo la película, especifica sus autores y el lugar:

That is "Der Weiße Rausch" filmed in The Arberg, Austria 1931 staring famous St Anton & Stuben am Arlberg Locals

Hannes Schneider
Leni Riefenstahl
Guzzi Lantschner
Walter Riml
Rudi Matt
Lothar Ebersberg

Leni Riefenstahl made the propaganda films for the Nazis


Esto último me ha llamado enormemente la atención. Mi conclusión es que el origen de este primer vídeo de Tubular Bells fue que alguien llamado Philip Jenkinson hacía montajes artísticos con películas que se encontraba por ahí. Seguramente no era consciente de que esta en particular de los esquiadores que utilizó para Tubular Bells era de origen Nazi.

Quizás me equivoque, pero, posiblemente, esta circunstancia fue la que determinó que se eliminase del DVD de la Deluxe Edition de Tubular Bells de 2009. Si, como intuyo, fue por este motivo, entonces hicieron muy bien en eliminarlo; podría dar lugar, por supuesto equivocadamente, a que alguien relacionase a Mike Oldfield (o a Tubular Bells) con la propaganda Nazi, y nada más lejos de la realidad; ya tuvo suficiente el pobre con que le emparejasen con Exorcistas...

fairlight dijo:

Genial investigación NOSOYESTO!

Afghan dijo:

Bravo!!