Get’cher self lined out for the weekend right here!! This bit from Wiki explains the now-iconic video. Pretty cool. In addition to the songs influence on music, the song was used in what became one of the first modern promotional film clips, the forerunner of what later became known as the music video. Although Rolling Stone ranked it 7th in the magazines October 1993 list of 100 Top Music Videos, the original clip was actually the opening segment of D. A. Pennebakers film, Dont Look Back, a documentary on Bob Dylans 1965 tour of England. In the film, Dylan, who came up with the idea, holds up cue cards for the audience, with selected words and phrases from the lyrics. The cue cards were written by Donovan, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Neuwirth and Dylan himself. While staring at the camera, he flips the cards as the song plays. There are intentional misspellings and puns throughout the clip: for instance, when the songs lyrics say eleven dollar bills the poster says 20 dollar bills. The clip was shot in an alley behind the Savoy Hotel in London where Ginsberg and Neuwirth make a cameo in the background. For use as a trailer, the following text was superimposed at the end of the clip while Dylan and Ginsberg are exiting the frame: Surfacing Here Soon | Bob Dylan in | Dont Look Back by D. A. Pennebaker. Thanks to the back of the Savoy Hotel retaining much of the same exterior as in 1965, the alley used in the video sequence has been identified as the Savoy Steps.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:27:54 +0000