Live footage of sessions at RVG's place?

[Peter Johnson]

I purchased One Night with Blue Note and am in the process of digesting it. All of this talk about watching musicians on film got me wondering, though--has anyone ever heard of the existence of Super 8 (or 16mm, or whatever) footage of any Blue Note or other sessions at RVG's place? We've got the Wolff photos, but man...think of the possibilities. I should think early movie cameras made noise, so wouldn't have been present...but on the other hand, Wolff's camera must have made a shutter sound.

Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

But, more likely, wouldn't we have heard by now if any footage existed?

[Claude]

Maybe couw and AfricaBrass can animate some of Wolff's pictures

Seriously, films from Blue Note sessions would be amazing. I love the excerpts from Monk's Columbia studio sessions in "Straight no chaser"

But Dominik Benedikt's "Blue Note Story", the only Blue Note documentary movie I know had no movie clips, it only showed stills. And I'm sure that Blue Note itself would already have used every available movie, for promotion etc, like they use Wolff's photos.

Edited November 6, 2003 by Claude

[Peter Johnson]

And I'm sure that Blue Note itself would already have used every available movie, for promotion etc, like they use Wolff's photos.

Sadly, that's what I kind of figured. Still, though--someone might know something...

[bertrand]

The British South Bank Show Blue Note documentary shows McCoy Tyner recording a brief tune at the RVG studios. This was filmed especially for the documentary.

Bertrand.

Edited November 6, 2003 by bertrand