I was just looking over the contents of the “Inside Pop” reels again, and felt such anger that this footage was not in the public’s grubby little hands yet. This is probably the most important document of all the Smile session. What is the status of the attempts to acquire this material? Is there any interest by BRI to claim this footage and, perhaps, release it (maybe as part of a Smile Boxset)? Has Alan Boyd been looking into this?
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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
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
? (in house?
)
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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?!?!)
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
then group sings at mike
86 Group around mike Yodelledo
Playback Yodelledoo's control in b.g. ("b.g." stands for background?)
Inside control room Group & Engineer Da daum(?) (La daum?)
Go out into studio Brian eating cereal record da da da da
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Beach Boys
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
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
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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
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(?)
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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.(?)
needle
recorder pan to engineer back to recorder
90
--> playback engineers bg Wilson fig.
fade in(?)
kneels -- can have muted trumpet go bleep(?)
move to us(?) half of Jules
Brian coat on walks out
Pool
Bodies toward camera
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Beach Boys
R88
1. Brian eating sits at piano
2. lead on Brian e(?) earphone singing into mike
3. Brian at piano sings not(?) (nor?) sleeping(?!) 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
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")
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89
5. thru booth to Brian
6. needle
7. recorder spinning to engineer to recorder
90
1. Brian listening
Stretching
2. Brian
? (putting on vocal leads?
)
- Are we absolutely positive that this isn't the footage seen in "American Band"? Couldn't Dennis be shooting same time as CBS? Cause it sounds quite the same....