Marcus Garvey (was Re: Spectacular video exclusive!!!)

[am995@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Chris Blouch)]

In a previous article, barger@ils.nwu.EDU () says:

>When C&V got their PAL player hooked up last month, one happy discovery was
>a few extra minutes of footage from the VH-1 special, on the PAL cassette
>(autographed!) I won at the Kon last year.
>
>But over the weekend Chris noticed that the PAL case was engineered oddly,
>allowing it to be *flipped*, and on the "B" side was...
>
>A ROCKET MAN VIDEO!!!
>
>It looks like a rough cut, or maybe just an animated storyboard-- the FX
>are *really* cheap.
>
>It opens with a closeup of Kate's sad face in comic Elton-goggles, framed
>in a space helmet, lip-syncing, zooming out to show she's suited up and
>strapped inside a capsule.  There are stars outside the window, and many
>cute little decorations in the interior that we'll have to look at
>single-frame to identify.  (There's definitely a videoscreen with a Fresnel
>overlay, though!)
>
>When she sings "high as a kite by then" a spaceship floats past the window,
>the name readable as "Marcus Garvey" (???)

Marcus Garvey was the leader of a Back-to-Africa movement in the U.S.
in the early 1900's.  I think he was convicted of mail fraud and returned
to Jamaica in the 30's.

Greg Blouch
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