Post by AGD on Apr 2, 2019 4:24:46 GMT -5
Chanced upon these deep in the bowels of my laptop the other day while looking for something else entirely. I knew I had them somewhere, just not where, exactly. For the life of me I can't recall who originally unearthed these, but I'm pretty sure they were originally posted on one of Suze Lang's forums (anyone know, please chip in): whoever, all serious Smile historians are in their debt as some mysteries and misconceptions were cleared up and/or dispelled. However, as many were newly unearthed.
These are the notes David Oppenheim made while watching the raw footage he shot back in December 1966 (sadly, this original footage seems to be lost) and as such are naturally brief, and cryptic, as DO knew what he was watching and only required technical notes and memory joggers, not detailed descriptions. That said, most of them are still self-explanatory.
A few explanations: CL and CR mean "camera left" and "camera right" respectively while "b.g." seems to indicate "background". "cu" is almost certainaly "close up" while BP is "pull back" and LS is "long shot".
I've inserted a few notes, [in italics]. The
faces are something I can't correct, due to a multiplicity of question marks. Not in the original, obvs.
Enjoy.
75 (signifying Reel #75)
1. hands to face CR angle
can't see hands pan to hands in dark
child Is the Father of man
2. Heroes & Villains plays
Vandyke Parks has been working on lyrics
sings open country song [as per "I'm In Great Shape"]
Sunshine
76 Surf's up cu (or cw? or au?) CR
-> takes guts to catch wave
can visualize intervals on piano
77 x piano Surf's Up
PB
Surf's up candelabra shot CL
78 Scratch
Wilson & friends?
83
1. engineer
2. pan up to Brian
3. board
4. Boys singing who Ran The Iron Horse
(Above "who Ran" is the scratched out word "Hooray"
as if he wasn't sure what the words were.)
5. Wilson? (judging, foda?!?!)
6. Boys singing who Ran The Iron Horse
7. Do Wa Wa in circle
8. Wilson (shelving?!)
84 9. Let's work on microphone
boys around mike
Do wa
85 Brian at piano working out(?)
Yodelledo [yodelling version of "Wonderful", evidently]
then group sings at mike
86 Group around mike Yodelledo
Playback Yodelledoo's control in b.g.
Inside control room Group & Engineer Da daum(?) (La daum?)
Go out into studio Brian eating cereal record da da da da
86
1. around mike Yodeladeeo pan to Piano
Brian walks out frame(?) to outside booth playback
walks to control board
2. Brian talking?? (bad pa toheps) to engineer
3. dark 4/s listening to playback
Brian goes to?? (sirke?!) eats, put on headphones
sing dine dine ["doing doing" from "Cabin Essence"]
Scratch
87
1. control board thru window track on(?)
dine dine
Let's go have some Zen accompaniment
2. Brian at piano from behind
plays chords
87
engineer thru glass to group in(?) b.g. record da da
group comes back into room & listens to da da da
let's go lets have some zen compliment
Brian at piano from behind accomp. to Surf's up
to hands to face CL around to x & back to CL
88 Brian eating
headphones listening to piano track
sings lead on(?) thru piano
1 more time
--> tone(?) & start again side view CL
-> start at 2nd verse hung velvet
misses the glass
pickup hung velvet stop at dove nested
have echo on me
pickup again at hung velvet
R88
1. Brian eating sits at piano
2. lead on Brian e(?) earphone singing into mike
3. Brian at piano sings not(?) (nor?) sleeping(?!) (leeping?) pan across piano
Surf's up
?? words to back top
& false starts
tone(?)
move to side start again - go to colonnaded ruins
"cut again to end verse"
false start, then humg velvet c moves to side ["c" is probably "camera"]
"missed it pickup 2nd verse"
'no I can't do it(?) - You have echo on me "?? (julimp?!?!)
2nd verse again
89 Overdubs
hung velvet lead on(?)?? (jumoles?!?!) -- let's overdub
it
move to CR side (?).s. 11(?) more around behind
move around to face CL he gestures
he talks while voice go(?)
mono mix - Id like it softer
let's go to top is that cool
LS CL overdub
LS hung velvet out sync
LS thru control room
2nd shot n.g. (?) [ng = no good]
needle
recorder pan to engineer back to recorder
89
1. head on "hung velvet PB
that's it let's overdub it
2. "Are you hearing yourself now?" words(?)
mix it so you can hear both voices" (boy?) (tog? for together?)
?? (pans?) back move around
"go to top" Take 1
3. LS piano are you sleeping
4. " " (ditto marks under "LS piano")
5. thru booth to Brian
6. needle
7. recorder spinning to engineer to recorder
90
--> playback engineers bg Wilson fig.
fade in(?)
kneels -- can have muted trumpet go bleep(?)
move to us(?) half of Jules [Jules Siegel]
Brian coat on walks out
90
1. Brian listening
Stretching
2. Brian? (putting on vocal leads?)
Pool [presumably the footage of the band, and Murry, shot Brian's pool at Laurel Way]
Bodies toward camera
These are the notes David Oppenheim made while watching the raw footage he shot back in December 1966 (sadly, this original footage seems to be lost) and as such are naturally brief, and cryptic, as DO knew what he was watching and only required technical notes and memory joggers, not detailed descriptions. That said, most of them are still self-explanatory.
A few explanations: CL and CR mean "camera left" and "camera right" respectively while "b.g." seems to indicate "background". "cu" is almost certainaly "close up" while BP is "pull back" and LS is "long shot".
I've inserted a few notes, [in italics]. The
faces are something I can't correct, due to a multiplicity of question marks. Not in the original, obvs. Enjoy.
75 (signifying Reel #75)
1. hands to face CR angle
can't see hands pan to hands in dark
child Is the Father of man
2. Heroes & Villains plays
Vandyke Parks has been working on lyrics
sings open country song [as per "I'm In Great Shape"]
Sunshine
76 Surf's up cu (or cw? or au?) CR
-> takes guts to catch wave
can visualize intervals on piano
77 x piano Surf's Up
PB
Surf's up candelabra shot CL
78 Scratch
Wilson & friends
?83
1. engineer
2. pan up to Brian
3. board
4. Boys singing who Ran The Iron Horse
(Above "who Ran" is the scratched out word "Hooray"
as if he wasn't sure what the words were.)
5. Wilson
? (judging, foda?!?!) 6. Boys singing who Ran The Iron Horse
7. Do Wa Wa in circle
8. Wilson
(shelving?!) 84 9. Let's work on microphone
boys around mike
Do wa
85 Brian at piano working out(?)
Yodelledo [yodelling version of "Wonderful", evidently]
then group sings at mike
86 Group around mike Yodelledo
Playback Yodelledoo's control in b.g.
Inside control room Group & Engineer Da daum(?) (La daum?)
Go out into studio Brian eating cereal record da da da da
86
1. around mike Yodeladeeo pan to Piano
Brian walks out frame(?) to outside booth playback
walks to control board
2. Brian talking
?? (bad pa toheps) to engineer 3. dark 4/s listening to playback
Brian goes to
?? (sirke?!) eats, put on headphones sing dine dine ["doing doing" from "Cabin Essence"]
Scratch
87
1. control board thru window track on(?)
dine dine
Let's go have some Zen accompaniment
2. Brian at piano from behind
plays chords
87
engineer thru glass to group in(?) b.g. record da da
group comes back into room & listens to da da da
let's go lets have some zen compliment
Brian at piano from behind accomp. to Surf's up
to hands to face CL around to x & back to CL
88 Brian eating
headphones listening to piano track
sings lead on(?) thru piano
1 more time
--> tone(?) & start again side view CL
-> start at 2nd verse hung velvet
misses the glass
pickup hung velvet stop at dove nested
have echo on me
pickup again at hung velvet
R88
1. Brian eating sits at piano
2. lead on Brian e(?) earphone singing into mike
3. Brian at piano sings not(?) (nor?) sleeping(?!) (leeping?) pan across piano
Surf's up
?? words to back top & false starts
tone(?)
move to side start again - go to colonnaded ruins
"cut again to end verse"
false start, then humg velvet c moves to side ["c" is probably "camera"]
"missed it pickup 2nd verse"
'no I can't do it(?) - You have echo on me "
?? (julimp?!?!) 2nd verse again
89 Overdubs
hung velvet lead on(?)
?? (jumoles?!?!) -- let's overdub it
move to CR side (?).s. 11(?) more around behind
move around to face CL he gestures
he talks while voice go(?)
mono mix - Id like it softer
let's go to top is that cool
LS CL overdub
LS hung velvet out sync
LS thru control room
2nd shot n.g. (?) [ng = no good]
needle
recorder pan to engineer back to recorder
89
1. head on "hung velvet PB
that's it let's overdub it
2. "Are you hearing yourself now?" words(?)
mix it so you can hear both voices
" (boy?) (tog? for together?) ?? (pans?) back move around "go to top" Take 1
3. LS piano are you sleeping
4. " " (ditto marks under "LS piano")
5. thru booth to Brian
6. needle
7. recorder spinning to engineer to recorder
90
--> playback engineers bg Wilson fig.
fade in(?)
kneels -- can have muted trumpet go bleep(?)
move to us(?) half of Jules [Jules Siegel]
Brian coat on walks out
90
1. Brian listening
Stretching
2. Brian
? (putting on vocal leads?)Pool [presumably the footage of the band, and Murry, shot Brian's pool at Laurel Way]
Bodies toward camera
