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Limited-edition (2500), 3-section film
cell presentation, custom-matted and framed in black wood. The presentation
also includes 3 small prints depicting imagery from three of Pink Floyd’s
best-known works – The Division Bell, Dark Side of the Moon and the soundtrack
from The Wall. Also included is a small plate inscribed with the band’s name
and edition-related information.
Measures 11"H x 13"W overall. This is an
officially-licensed Pink Floyd collectible.
Approx. 4lbs. shipping weight.
Each presentation is made of the highest-quality materials
and a careful attention to detail. Each strip is hand-selected and cut from
reels of licensed (from Trend Setters, Ltd., the world’s only official
manufacturer of licensed film cells) imagery, providing you with a truly unique
presentation. Each item is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from
FilmCells.
Please note - The film strips portrayed in the sample image
above are examples of the film cells you may receive. The cells will vary from
piece to piece because they are hand selected from reels of film.
Artwork by Hipgnosis/Thorgerson – Division Bell & DSOTM; Gerald
Scarfe – The Wall
Division Bell - The "Metal Heads" seen on this
cover were real metal statues made especially for this cover (they weighed a
ton!). They were taken by flat-bed truck to a field near Cambridge,
England (the Floyd’s home
town), close to Ely Cathedral, on the edge of the Fens
River.
The sculptures present the idea of two heads in profile, facing or talking to
each other, making up a third face, facing you (look - it's pretty cool). The
metal heads were devised by Keith Breeden and built by John Robertson, to the
height of a double-decker bus - the size of a small house - like the Aku Aku
totems on Easter Island.
Per Storm Thorgerson in the book 'Mind Over Matter - the Images Of Pink
Floyd" - "The single eyes of the two faces looking at each other
become the two eyes of a single face looking at you, the viewer. It was
intended that the viewer should not see both at the same time. One saw the
single face or the two profiles. If one saw both it was alternating, like an
optical illusion, which was even better because it meant that the viewer was
interacting, or communicating, with the image directly, viscerally."
"The third or facing head, is implied not defined, more ghostly than real,
referring to Roger and Syd, the departed ghosts of Pink Floyd, a theme of the
album. The setting near Cambridge
was especially nostalgic, echoing yet another theme of the album, whilst the
communicating heads themselves was representative of the third major
theme."
Released in 1994, the Division Bell record was the second after Roger
Waters had left the band and found the remaining three members not so subtle
with their feelings about his leadership role ("What Do You Want From
Me?")...
Dark Side of the Moon - This album is Pink Floyd’s
commercial-meets-conceptual equinox. No.1 on the Billboard album charts in
March of 1973, this recording went on to achieve a record 741 weeks (or 14
whole years) on the ‘Top 200 Albums’ chart. It is the longest-charting album
ever (beating its nearest rival by five years), with well over thirty five
million copies sold to date.
Of minor significance was the complete appropriateness of the artwork to the
record. Says Storm Thorgerson, ‘the design is simply a mechanical tint lay,
which means we drew outline shapes, black on white, and indicated what colours
were to appear when printed. The prisms were airbrushed black on white and
reversed by the printer.
The idea itself was cunningly cobbled from a standard physics textbook, which
illustrated light passing through a prism. Of significance was the simple,
elegant layout against black - standard textbook illustrations did not do this.
And then to connect this idea to their live show, which was famous for its
lighting, and subsequently to connect this to ambition and madness, themes
Roger was exploring in the lyrics… hence the prism, the triangle and the
pyramids.
It all connects, somehow, somewhere.’. Says Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, ‘We
knew that the package – the record and the cover and everything together – was
going to be far, far stronger than anything we had done before.’ And so it came
to be.
The Wall - Whether you saw director Alan Parker's movie
adaptation (starring then-Boomtown Rat Sir Bob Geldof as the very depressed
rock musician "Pink") or the band's own touring stage presentation
(where a wall was built on stage throughout the performance that finally
separated the performers from the audience), you will no doubt always remember
the fantastic imagery, animation, stage design, and super-sized puppetry of
Gerald Scarfe.
The "Scream" image perfectly captures the sense of frustration,
isolation and personal loss that Pink character was feeling as he watches the
Wall continue to grow, regardless of his success as a musician.
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