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--Elvis: Behind The Image - Volume 2







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' Cousins"
  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 Cynthia knows to
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's death.




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.
This documentary doesn't only clear rumors and misinterpretations about the person Elvis, but makes it necessary that some chapters of Elvis's 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.




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's religiousness and his connection to Gospel music.
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 look.
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.


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 this time.





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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Elvis: Behind The Image - Volume 2