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Pink Floyd "Division Bell/DSOTM/The Wall" Framed Filmcell Presentation
Pink Floyd "Division Bell/DSOTM/The Wall" Framed Filmcell Presentation
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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.

 

$72.95

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