Pink Floyd - Live in Nassau, NY (February 26th, 1980) - Super 8mm film

NEW FILM - 2024
Happy New Year! To start the New Year with a bang, here is the first of two BRAND NEW Super 8mm films of Pink Floyd performing "The Wall" at Nassau Coliseum, shot by Jeffrey McGuiness

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This first film is on February 26th, 1980 — this performance isn't anything out of the ordinary for the most part, but it was the show where the playback tapes for 'The Trial' malfunctioned, resulting in Roger having to attempt his vocal parts with no help. The playback was introduced after the first two nights in Los Angeles, as the vocals being done live every night proved to be very dangerous to Roger's throat.

Tracklist
0:00 - Disclaimer
0:06 - In The Flesh?
0:29 - The Happiest Days of Our Lives
0:40 - Mother
0:51 - Young Lust
0:57 - Is There Anybody Out There?
1:03 - Nobody Home
1:11 - Vera
1:30 - Bring The Boys Back Home
2:03 - Comfortably Numb
2:09 - In The Flesh
2:30 - Waiting For The Worms
3:26 - The Trial
5:49 - Outside The Wall
6:04 - Thank You!
6:27 - Credits
6:34 - Jeffrey's 1967 Camaro

This specific film is particularly amazing for a few reasons! Firstly, this is the first time that the sparklers during 'In The Flesh?' have been seen on 8mm film, followed by THE BEST shot of the Stuka Bomber that I have ever seen in any amateur or professional footage. Animation fanatics will love this film in particular, as it is not ONLY the best film source for some of these animations (such as "I have never seen before"), but it is also the ONLY circulating film source to capture the infamous projection during the "go on judge, shit on him!" line in 'The Trial'. Fans have been desperately trying to find a good source of this animation, and although partial, this is the most we have ever gotten! If you want a complete animation, you could merge this with the shot from "Seven Ages of Rock." On top of that, it is also, without a doubt, THE BEST footage of the wall itself collapsing. This film also captures the only circulating 8mm so far of every single band member being in the frame as they walk onto the stage for the final song.

Even without stabilization, Jeffrey held a very steady hand for most of this footage, and though stabilization wasn't particularly NEEDED, we decided to add a little bit of it just to make it even better. The downside of this film is that the first Kodachrome cartridge is quite underexposed. This was the first time that I actually couldn't get much information out of an underexposed cartridge of 8mm because, despite the low ISO, you can usually retrieve SOMETHING in the shadows...not this time sadly. But, the cleanliness of the second cartridge makes up for it. Oh yeah, the car at the end too! This was shot the next morning, on February 27th, 1980. We decided to keep this in (with Jeffrey's permission) as we believe it is a cool little time capsule of New York during Winter. Hopefully, others agree!

Colouring some of this was quite a pain in the arse, I can't lie. Due to the underexposed nature of the Kodachrome cartridge, almost all of the real red information on the projections is GONE. Anything that I tried to get this colour out only damaged the image itself, so I did minimal work on shots such as 'Bring The Boys Back Home' and 'Waiting For The Worms'. The Ektachrome cartridge that comes in for 'The Trial' was way easier to adjust, as the exposure is fantastic and nothing is lost nor blown out. We decided to do a basic stabilization — we understand that this is not ideal for everybody, so we will be providing download links to the raw files soon! On the audio front, our partner Davide provided an excellent 3-source matrix for us to use on this footage! This matrix, along with Davide's other works, will be shared online hopefully in the coming weeks. We are very busy outside of the bootleg world, so please be patient if it takes a little longer than usual.

It isn't every day that someone who documented these kinds of events back then will trust you with their personal items, so we want to give the biggest Thank You to Jeffrey McGuiness, for not only capturing such a beautiful piece of history and also trusting us with his physical reels for a few weeks so that we could have this scanned professionally, but also for letting us share this rare treasure with all Floyd fans online. Thank you, Jeff!!!

If you filmed, taped, or photographed Pink Floyd in any capacity between 1967 and 1981, please email us at [email protected] - we would be more than happy to fund the costs of shipping and everything else. You will always get your items back.

Filmed by Jeffrey McGuiness
Professional Scanning — thenegative.space
Funding — The PFRG, Adambound, RedJohn, Notelu
Shot Identification, Audio Sync, Colouring — Nuff
Audio Remastering & Matrixing — Davide Capolongo
Post Processing — Davide Capolongo, Notelu

Raw files on ravinganddrooling.com / archive.org soon!