The Punk Rock Movie

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Product Details

Director : Don Letts
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5030697012838
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 2
Release Date : 2008-06-30
Running Time : 79minutes
Studio : Fremantle Home Entertainment

ASIN : B0017T1NTU

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Synopsis

Shot by Don Letts at the Roxy Club during a tour of several punk artists. Features performances by the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Billy Idol, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and more.

Customer Reviews

For historical interest and still fascinating (2008-08-18)

Don Letts' films are among only a handful that were shot at the beginning of the punk movement in London, Wolgang Buld being the only other known cameraman taking a real interest in the scene. The footage is historically acurate, that is to say someone who went to the clubs and shot it as it happened with nothing 'staged' nor interviews vetted, and as such provides a valuable and insightful view of the period. You wouldnt rate any of the young people here as potential 'celebs' or worthies and yet there is genuine feel that something is happening and an urgency to the proceedings that you can see is being eroded even as the footage is shot. The camera is a handheld 8mm thing, cheap and available, the equivalent today would be perhaps something shot on a mobile phone and posted on youtube. Despite the obvious technical flaws and the rough and ready editing this remains an essential film for anyone interested in the period, today's punk rock 'stars' (Punkers if you like) have nothing on the genuine article.Now the real problem with this DVD is in the mastering, I saw the film at the cinema in the mid 80's and it looked about 100 times better than this. I picked up my DVD recently in Spain but I guess its the same transfer. The owner of the footage (doesnt seem to be Don Letts anymore) explains the transfer process that he adopted in the technical notes. He says he projected the film (which is 16 frames per second) onto a screen and digitally captured it in PAL using a video camera, (PAL being 25 frames per second), and this he says is the 'solution to the problem'. Unfortunately as anyone can see when viewing the DVD this results in a flickery, fuzzy, washed-out picture with muffled sound. I'm no expert in these matters but I'm sure if he got it professionally done they would have scanned each frame into a computer and doubled up the images to produce 32 frames per second which would be close enough to the NTSC frame rate (of approx 30 frames per second) to work a treat - and who would care that the action would be 1/16 second slower since the film has enough energy to even notice the difference.

Awful. (2008-08-16)

This is a dreadful dvd, very aged poor quality footage and poor sound. Your cash would be much better spent on Don Letts excellent 'Punk Attitude' dvd which is far superior.

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