This was originally billed as "The Pink Floyd Movie" and was only in selected movie theaters, because there had to be facilities to accomodate the Quadraphonic

This was originally billed as "The Pink Floyd Movie" and was only in selected movie theaters, because there had to be facilities to accomodate the Quadraphonic surround sound concert speaker system that toured with it. Never widely seen to begin with, and did not re-appear until many years later in some form. It usually doesn't take 1000 times to realize what I saw that day. So I don't know if this is part of it any more, but the live Pompeii scenes were all material from before Dark Side, ensemble playing and it looked like they were having a good time there. In the original movie, between the outdoor live scenes where they were just having fun, they would cut to out-takes from Dark Side studio sessions, often one member at a time with headphones, subdued atmosphere, carefuly crafting an effort to be as popular as they could be. Not boring but you could tell they were not having the same kind of fun. Very interesting actually but excitement jumped back up whenever they cut back to Pompeii. It was basically a documentary of what it was like before most people ever heard of them. And it looked like they really wanted people to see the difference in the previous stuff that millions had missed not only on record, but missed live when it was first released.