31st March 1972, Friday

[Graeme]

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[Alan]

This is the interview filmed at the end of the rehearsal session. Segments of the audio were used in the film.
      
This top one is the interview with no black screen moments and just the known footage.

This bottom one is the interview complete with about 43 seconds of black screen in 5 different moments

And this is everything, all the known footage so far, from this day including the interview with footage only. Running time over 42 1/2 minutes. Those are unique minutes not 5 minutes of one angle then 5 minutes of another of the same moment doesnt make 10mintes, its still 5 unique minutes. But pleeeeease say if there's more, I would gladly update the file if there is.

[Alan]

This has taken ages. No other way to put it
So from around the beginning of December 2021 I thought I'd have a go at redoing the footage from this rehearsal session.
I've tried to get the best known quality we have at this moment in time as well as trying to get every scrap of frame available.
I've tried to enhance some of the poorer more flatter colour footage and it doesn't look too bad.
I hope I've not missed anything. I had done so on some and had to redo the songs again.
In order to use every angle I've synched them on the screen so nothing gets missed.
There was only two cameras used and both weren't necessarily filming at the same time, just on some songs or parts thereof.
Hardest part was realising when bits of footage from other video /DVD releases were wrong, so footage from A Big Hunk O' Love would appear in the song but its from the first rehearsal not the second or vice versa. There were "filler" clips inserted into a song when the clip actually comes from another song entirely.
Its took so long there's probably more footage leaked onto the ether and so I'll have to start again, much as I'd love to see new footage I don't want to talk that up just yet. (I think I've just spotted another piece!!)
Have I got it all correct? Well, I wasn't there (prior appointment), but 99% confident it must be close but happy to correct anything that looks out of place, just comment.
      
Another thing that's cropped up the running order of the songs on their audio release(s), more precisely, "Proud Mary".
There are two different versions rehearsed of the song, one at the beginning and one more towards the latter half of the rehearsal.
But they are wrongly placed, or at least the latter version is.
The footage says so.
The footage where the audio synches up to is audio is from the later running audio on the audio release, but the footage is from the earlier part of the session.
What we know is Elvis' attire.
Two items that give us a clue, his glasses and his over jacket.
Elvis has a blue jacket over a bue shirt and during the session he changes his glasses over.
The Proud Mary footage has Elvis wearing the jacket, nicely tied up at the front with the yellow scarf showing through and his aviator style shades on with "EP" across the bridge.
As the session progresses the jacket comes off. As it progresses further Elvis changes his shades for some that are slightly more squarer in shape with the large sudes with the TCB logo on them.
So the earliest footage we have from the session is Proud Mary, but I've left the running order of songs as per audio release as I'm unsure how many others are out of order
Elvis puts his over jacket back on with the help of James Caughley during the interview.
See the running order of jacket and shade below:
      

	Proud Mary. Outer jaket on and "EP" bridged shades
	Medley ofearlier hits. Jackets still on and "EP" bridged shades still on.
	A Big Hunk O' Love. Outer jacket off and "EP" bridged shades on.
	Burning Love. Outer jacket off and "TCB" sided shades on.
	Lead Me, Guide Me. Still with jacket off and TCB sided shades on.
	End of rehearsal and pre interview. Jacket still off and TCB shades on.
	Towards end of interview. James helps Elvis into his jacket, TCB shades still on.