Amougies Festival Documentary - Belgium 1969 (18.53)
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Azrael Presents: Amougies.Rock.Festival.TV.Documentry
City\Country: Amougies Belgium
MPG VCD NTSC 1150 bitrate size 188 meg
Date: Oct 24-28,1969 Length 18'53 Rating: 7/10

-- Amougies Festival Belgian RTBF TV Documentry (French Language) --

main song title : Hang on to a Dream

video mpg Length: 18 min 53 seconds

Belgian B&W TV documentry made by TV station RTB appears to have been shown on TV in Belgium in late 1969 this is only the first part of the documentry and it is missing
the opening title credits but catches the date November 17, 1969 and the director : Marc Mopty

it opens with the Church bells tolling in Amougies with scenes of the town and just outside the Festival site and tent being prepared, interviews with town officals and scenes of teenagers arriving, interviews with some shop keepers and teenagers heading to the festival site.

music releated segments are at
4'14 audio music for 30 or 40 seconds
8'45 audio music for 10 seconds .........Who is this ?
10'33 an Amougies Festival poster visible in a store window
15'05 The Nice introduced play "Hang on to a Dream"
15'21 > 15'28 Frank Zappa seen in the crowd
16'20 Chris Squire playing the bass
16'32 Bill Bruford playing drums (obviously dubbed in)

In the last 5 minutes there is a few seconds of Frank Zappa in the crowd just after The Nice start to play with a short glimpse of Bill Bruford and a bass player ? while The Nice play "Hang on to a Dream " the camera in a car drives through town and you see some of one of the film crews making the movie about Amougies "Music Power" standing on a street corner then there is an ariel view of the site and just as the song ends this tape ends.

I believe from the way this is set up this is only part of what was shown it would be nice if someone in Belgium could inquire at RTBF archives about the details of the rest of it.

The person I got this partial documentry from actually saw the film made about the festival in France called "Music Power" released in May, 1970 (but later banned due to copyright violations)

and this is what he had to say unfortunaely I had to tell him I did not have it.

> I saw that Amougies film in France in 1970.It is
> fantastic and has Frank Zappa jamming with Pink Floyd
> and with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
> Do you have it on DVD? It is one of my main
> wants, but most people have never heard of it

these are the details about it listed in www.imdb.com

[Link]

mpg VCD NTSC bitrate 1150, size 188 megs,

Video Attributes:
Video compression mode: MPEG-1
TV system: 525/60 (NTSC)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Source picture resolution: 352x240 (525/60)
Frame Rate: 29.97
Bitrate: 1150 Mbps

Audio Attributes:
Number of Audio channels: 2
Bitrate: 224 Kbps
Number of Audio streams: 1

NOTES:
Any media player can play this to burn a VCD, in NERO select
the VCD template tick NTSC and burn to a CDR

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