The Documentary :
The cast of the documentary
is like the 'who is who?' of the Elvis
scene. All interview partners give here
for the first time insight in their life
with Elvis and report here exclusively
of private moments with the King Of Entertainment.
Teaser
When the DVD was released the teaser,
in which an animated Elvis dances to didgeridoo
music, caused enthusiasm. This fulminant
start underlines immediately how innovative
this DVD is in exposure to the topic Elvis.
The awareness 'Elvis - a cultural heritage
and a phenomenon of centuries' finds here
its visual conversion. After the release
of the DVD the fans attested the producers,
that only this first part was worth the
purchase.
Cynthia Pepper - The Making Of 'Kissin'
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Despite her young
age the actress Cynthia
Pepper was able to look
back on a big Hollywood
movie and stage career
already before her co-operation
with Elvis. Besides her
own TV series she acted
at the side of James Stewart
in diverse successful
movie classics.
The title of this doceumentary
is chosen right: The Making
of 'Kissin' Cousins'.
Such a flood of information,
pictures of the shooting
and memorabilia chroma
keying, cinema posters
from the several countries
and the funny stories
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tell, are centralized in a documentary how
you would expect the bonus material of
the 'Kissin' Cousins' DVD to be. |
After watching this documentary you will have a totally
different look on the movie 'Kissin' Cousins'
and will remember certain scenes with
a smirk. Cynthia Pepper tells, besides
her own life story, not only how she got
to know Elvis but to the 'scenes behind
the camera' also belong explanations how
it was reached at that time to show Elvis
in a double role on the silver screen.
But the viewer becomes also aware of how
much Cynthia Pepper was coined - by her
co-operation with Elvis - not only professionally
but also emotionally. Not later than when
Cynthia describes how she has found out
about Elvis' death. |
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| Ed Hill - Losing A Friend |
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Exclusively and for
the first time on this DVD we
experience Ed Hill's personal
life story. Ed is one of the few
people, who has always refused
over the years to write a book
about his time with Elvis. Especially
this factor makes us extremely
proud to be able to present you
his personal story here for the
first time. Here the adjusted
concept and the evolution of the
DVD in a direct comparison to
Volume 1 has really an effect.
It is not about an interview or
some statements given about Elvis,
but about a capacious documentary,
which catches dramatically hold
of the life story and the collective
work with Elvis. |
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| This documentary doesn't only clear rumors and misinterpretations
about the person Elvis, but makes it necessary
that some chapters of Elvis' life have
to be written new. The fullness of unpublished
photos and movie recordings makes it here
impossible to list all and so it is in
the magazines circulating for which it
is impossible to write a review which
comes up to the DVD. For the first time
in the Elvis history we see a pre-program
of the Stamps on Super8 which is alone
already a sensation. Especially this segment
is an example for you finding on this
DVD hidden sensational and unpublished
Super8 material, which some of the 'minutes
counting fans' don't count, so that we
didn't find one critic making a declaration
of the content without any mistakes. |
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| Ed Enoch - He Gave The World Music |
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Ed Enoch is, just as
Ed Hill, a long-time member of
the group 'J.D. Sumner & The
Stamps Quartet'. You have to make
yourself clear that all of the
musicians Elvis worked with had
their own audience and their own
career and gave concerts in sold
out halls and still give today.
So these people look back on a
moved life and also Ed Enoch has
a considerable life story to show,
he tells you on this DVD. Surely
most of the fans remember the
moving documentary 'He Touched
Me' where Ed Enoch told in emotional
words about Elvis' religiousness
and his connection to Gospel music. |
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| On 'Elvis - Behind The Image Volume 2' Ed
talks for the first time about his personal
life story and his friendship to Elvis,
which was much more than the co-operation.
Ed really goes here into the details:
the successful concert tours, the collective
work in Las Vegas and the private moments
he shared with Elvis. Ed here uses the
opportunity to clear a lot of myths and
lies. Especially at the late Elvis , the
famous Jungle Room - sessions and the
1977 CBS Special this DVD takes a closer
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| From now things have to be considered new
and it shows clearly that a lot of this
'negative stories' we had to read in the
past in books and in the yellow press
are were not true. Exactly this part of
the documentary is not only the climax
but especially the details of the life
of the late Elvis and the details on the
moment of his death and the following
funeral ceremony make this part exciting,
captivating and emotionally rousing like
a thriller. |
Original Screenshots of the DVD 'Elvis - Behind
The Image - Volume 2'
| During the further development of the concept for part
2 of this documentary series it was decided
to fall back on fantastic movie material
again. No easy job considering the historically
important and incomparable footage of
part 1. The most important change was,
that you not just activate the bonus material
in the interactive menu by clicking, but
that you get an explanation before every
concert footage within the scope of a
mini documentary telling the viewer all
important information on the concert. |
Bonus Features:
Unedited Concert Footage
Bud Glass Productions took care for
not only the admirers of documentaries
getting their money worth, but also the
collectors of Super8 Material. Also here
the DVD is a novelty. You are not only
getting tiny clips of a few seconds, but
also on this area was totally taken care
of: the footage included in the documentary
is on the DVD in the 'Bonus material'
area unedited and in complete length available.
For all 'Elvis - Behind The Image' products
is valid that the Super8 material comes
from the original reels and was transferred
for the first time with the most modern
laser scanning technology. It concerns
unexceptional unpublished material which
has never been circulating, not even in
the fan scene.
Candid Material
Although in the trailer of part 2
you can see more candid material, unfortunately
only a few seconds found their way on
this DVD. That is just up to the fact
that this DVD is nearly bursting, and
the producers didn't find a way to present
more unpublished candid material in the
temporal context within the adequate scope.
The fans and producers hope now that in
part 3 of this successful series more
of this rare recordings can be used.
Concert Material
Houston, Texas - Hofheinz Pavillion
November 12, 1971 - 08:30 P.M.
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When the first part
was released the trailer for part
2 on the DVD caused big excitement.
In the fan scene it was assumed
that the material must be 16mm
because of the great quality of
this recordings.
During the digital transfer and
restoration in Hollywood the responsible
person who has been working for
years in the movie business commented
the material as follows: '…impressive
work of the person who filmed…astonishingly
and incredibly straight camera
work, considering that it was
filmed without tripod and professional
equipment'.
If you watch this from the first
row filmed material from 1971
for the first time and didn't
hear the comment of Bud Glass
before you would surely be one
of the people who thought during
a preview of this concert, they
watch outtakes of 'Elvis On Tour'.
As usual for 'Elvis - Behind The
Image' you are not only getting
a short clip, but a complete overview
of the concert - Elvis coming
on stage, and going again, and
the action between Elvis arranges
on stage and which is really unique. |
Dallas, Texas - Memorial Auditorium
November 13, 1971 - 08:30 P.M.
Also this rare recordings
from the fall tour of '71 were
filmed, as well as the recordings
from the day before, filmed by
Sue Wiegert. The fans know Sue
for a long time because she was
interviewed already in the cinema
version of That's The Was It Is
(1970) but it was not mentioned
that she is a direct friend of
Elvis. Due to that, she had certain
privileges , which lead to her
being able to film this concert
relatively unhindered. In this
recordings you can see clearly
that the artist Elvis Presley
showed big achievements over an
unbelievable time frame.
The fantastic material shows impressively
that Elvis even added to his stage
presence and aggressiveness after
the 'That's The Way It Is' - time.
This recordings prove once more,
how unforced Elvis acted when
there are no official cameras
pointed on him. So the statement
that you get to see an Elvis who
doesn't take after the Elvis of
the '68 Comeback nor the Elvis
of 'That's The Way It Is' or 'Elvis
On Tour'.
Before you haven't seen this recordings,
you have seen nothing. Neither
the circulating Super8 recordings,
nor the clips released on DVD
show this quality and dynamic.
Although you see here two days
in a row, the recordings of Elvis
are completely different.
Once more you realize, just like
it was after the first part of
the documentary: Who thinks he
would know the stage show of Elvis
during the several years, is wrong.
Elvis appeared more than 1000
times and there are only a few
motion pictures of that circulating,
so that you can be anxious to
which surprise is offered you
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San Bernadino, California - Swing Auditorium
May 10, 1974 - 08:30 P.M.
Los Angeles, California - Forum
May 11, 1974 - 02:30 P.M. & 08:30
P.M.
Las Vegas, Nevada - International
Hotel
September 01, 1974 - Midnight Show
Before this recordings you are also getting
a mini documentary, which is full of
unpublished photos showing Elvis in
the several stage outfits. Conspicuous
is that you realize watching the footage
that pictures obviously can't give an
account of the unbelievable beauty and
glory of the suits. Never before have
you seen the stones and diamonds twinkle
in such a manner. Elvis wears here,
besides the Rainbow-Suit, the American
Eagle Suit, and Peacock-Suit also the
black Spanish-Flower-Suit. That this
suits in moving pictures are an rarity
doesn't have to be emphasized. A little
anecdote to this recordings is, that
the Colonel personally stopped Sue when
she filmed these recordings because
she had 'pushed too hard' over the years
and filmed always more often and more
unstopped, so this clips don't have
the usual length like the already presented
recordings.
A Comment about the Soundtrack:
All amateur recordings of this footage
were recorded in 1970 without sound.
Cameras with sound were not before the
end of 1974/ beginning of 1975 available
and payable for normal human beings.
Also because of the legal situation
it is not possible to add original Elvis
music to such recordings. Even if you
would be allowed to use it, this opportunity
wouldn't be the right solution for the
most footage. This results from the
fact, that a reel was only 3 minutes
long. The filming person wanted to capture
as many impressions of the concert as
possible, so he or she filmed as many
sequences as possible, which are, however,
only a few seconds long, due to the
total running time of the reel. If you
would try to lip-synchronize the recordings
the resulting material would sound like
a broken record. Apart from that, only
a fraction of the amateurish recorded
live appearances is suited for the so
called overdubbing. Even if the person
filmed 3 or 4 reels per concert, you
would have to cut a concert of one hour
down to 9 or 12 minutes, and here is
again the 'broken record-effect.
If you eclipse the lip-synchronity,
you could use Elvis songs as background
music. But Elvis moves wouldn't fir
to the music. It would all seem 'out
of tempo' and seem strange to the fans
which would keep them away from the
actual pleasure.
You have to see Super8 recordings as
what they actually are: The gives us
the opportunity to experience Elvis
in situation during the several years,
which wouldn't be available for us otherwise,
because from the official side it was
failed to make film documents for the
posterity. To make only one example:
if amateurs didn't film Elvis in 1975
it wouldn't be possible today to see
the star in the according year live.
We didn't want to expect of the fans
to watch a silent movie, so Bud Glass
Productions decided to go a different
way. Instead of using, like in cheap
productions usual, some non fitting
karaoke tracks or some kind of elevator
music, the team used especially for
this DVD composed songs, which were
recorded in a studio by musicians. For
the first time ever you can find such
high quality music on an Elvis-collectors-DVD,
which underlines the shown recordings
stylishly and enjoyably. So you can
totally enjoy watching the most charismatic
artist of music history working on stage.
Also here the producers wanted to add
up and let compose new tracks, which
were again recorded by top-class musicians.
This DVD has, too, its own theme songs
which accompanies the viewer in the
menu navigation.
The actual theme song of the documentary
series 'Behind The Image' - sung by
Russ Howe, has already such a recognition
under the fans, that the producers decided
to use it for part 2, too, so that the
viewers immediately while putting the
DVD in, feel at home in the 'Behind
The Image' world. |
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