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Columbia Records to Release Deluxe DVD Edition of Pink Floyd -- ''The Wall'' in October.


NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Aug. 18, 1999--

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of the original album The Wall by Pink Floyd This article includes inline links to audio files. If you have trouble playing the files, see Wikipedia Media help. , Columbia Records For the Columbia Records label which was a unit of EMI, see .

For the Columbia Records label in Japan, see .

Columbia Records is the oldest surviving brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888, and was the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as
 is releasing the motion picture version of this seminal piece in a deluxe DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 edition.

The historic DVD release of the groundbreaking film Pink Floyd -- The Wall is the most significant musical work to be made available in this new state-of-the-art format.

PINK FLOYD -- "THE WALL"

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer presents

An Alan Parker film

By Roger Waters

Designed by Gerald Scarfe Gerald Anthony Scarfe (born 1 June 1936 in St John's Wood, London) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his work with Pink Floyd, particularly The Wall, and as an editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and an illustrator for The New Yorker.  

With BobGeldof as Pink

Film Music Produced by Roger Waters, David Gilmour
For the Canadian writer and television journalist, see David Gilmour (writer), for the jazz guitarist see David Gilmore.


David Jon Gilmour
 and James Guthrie

Executive Producer Steve O'Rourke Produced by Alan Marshall

Animation Directed by Gerald Scarfe Screenplay by Roger Waters

Directed by Alan Parker

PINK FLOYD -- "THE WALL" Deluxe DVD edition featuring

-- New Hi Definition Telecine The technique for converting movie film to TV/video. Pronounced "tel-uh-sin-ee," "tel-uh-sin-uh" or "tel-uh-scene." Because film runs at 24 frames per second (fps), and NTSC video runs at 30 fps, telecine inserts duplicate frames into the video to make up the  film transfer of the complete motion

picture from the original wide screen interpositive

-- Previously unreleased film footage

-- Remastered 5.1 Dolby Digital Soundtrack direct from the original

master tapes

-- "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL" -- a 25 minute documentary about the

making of the film

-- Running commentary from Roger Waters & Gerald Scarfe

-- "RETROSPECTIVE" - an exclusive new 45 minute documentary of

interviews with Roger Waters, Gerald Scarfe, Alan Parker, Peter

Biziou, Alan Marshall and James Guthrie

-- Original film trailer and production stills

-- Newly designed interactive menus

-- Subtitled, scene/song selection, and secret buttons

-- Deluxe DVD packaging

For more information, please contact Fran DeFeo, Columbia Records, Media, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, 212-833-5784; email: fran_defeo@sonymusic.com.

Columbia Records online: http://www.columbiarecords.com.
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