Phew. What an exhaustive list. Thankfully, the bulk is covered in the various 'Anthology' reviews ... and everything except the commercials and "Keep Talking" are in better quality than on those tapes (from slightly to astronomically). 'Mr. Screen' is a three-disc VideoCD set. VCD's (for those of you who don't know), are compact discs with up to 80 minutes of video and sound on them. The quality is just a smidgen under VHS if it is encoded well, but like other digital formats, doesn't necessarily lose quality over time. In any case, I will only touch upon those things not reviewed already or other instances which merit discussion.

Disc One : "Arnold Layne" and "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" are sourced from the high-quality versions on the official Pink Floyd website, while the rest are generally clean video captures. "Time" is the original 2-minutes-and-change Ian Eames animation, sourced from the much-maligned MTV2 Broadcast (but unlike that horrific broadcast of pain, the audio here is more or less correctly synched up). "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" are sourced from the recent VH-1 Classic Pink Floyd weekend.

Disc Two : "Welcome to the Machine" is, as usual, missing the excellent "orb" intro seen on various '87-89 VOIOs, and begins with the metal lizard/dinosaur/whatever lumbering across the landscape (but unlike the 'Anthology' versions, this copy is slightly edited so that it synchs up with the audio correctly). The TV commercial from 'Animals,' the slightly-abbreviated video for "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2," "When The Tigers Broke Free," "The Fletcher Memorial Home," "Learning to Fly," and the abbreviated version of 'Behind the Wall' are all sourced from the official Floyd website, and are super-clean here.

The 'Animals' ad is nice and creepy, if short ... footage of the pig floating over Battersea Power Station, accompanied by classical music which segues into the menacing intro of "Pigs." "If you haven't got money, this is the album for you!" exclaims the television ad for 'A Collection of Great Dance Songs,' leading me to believe there's more to the old AMP-F joke of "Steal it! ROGER WOULD WANT YOU TO !" than initially thought. The ad itself is uninteresting, featuring spilling coins (from the "Money" film) and snippets of animation from 'The Wall.' The ad for 'The Final Cut' begins with scenes from the video EP while "Not Now John" plays ... then the camera zooms out and the second half of the ad promotes Journey's 'Frontiers' with the video for "Separate Ways"! Radical ! "PINK FLOYD - 'THE FINAL CUT,' AND JOURNEY - 'FRONTIERS' ... NEW ADVENTURES IN ROCK !" Gnarly ! "The Final Cut" and "Not Now John" are sourced very cleanly from the VH-1 Weekend.

"Prepare yourself for ... 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason,'" says the announcer over the intro of "Sorrow" ... a lightning-fast montage of scenes from the "Dogs of War" and "Signs of Life" films is followed by a cool aerial shot, presumably from a plane or helicopter flying along the line of beds from the album cover. The announcer reassures us that it will be in stores next week...short, sweet, and to the point, that ad.

Speaking of "Signs of Life," the video quality drops off for a bit as we're treated to the full backdrop film from the 87-89 tour ... a very nice atmospheric film which follows Langley Iddens down a river in his little rowboat, with the camera occasionally diving underwater to show us some weeds as well as the infamous Swimming Naked Man of Cambridge -- very nice, but pixilated (having been sourced from the lower-resolution clip on Storm Thorgerson's site). The live clips of "Signs of Life" and "Dogs of War" come from the VH-1 Weekend, in superb quality (and the footage from the aborted Atlanta filming puts 'Delicate Sound of Thunder' to shame, in my not-so-humble opinion). This disc closes out with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" from the 1990 Knebworth Festival ... I'm a bit unsure of the original source (not the MTV Broadcast, I know that), but it is very clean nonetheless.

Disc Three : The electronic press kit/trailer for the international portions of the 1994 World Tour, sourced once again from the official site, kicks off this disc with part of the film used for "Speak to Me" on that tour. It's followed by a montage of live scenes (from an unknown show ... it's certainly outdoors though, as the rain covers are up) mostly shot from a stationary camera at a very wide angle, with info about the tour spliced throughout. Not something you'll watch over and over again, but interesting to see once nonetheless. The backdrop films for "Great Gig" and "Us and Them" circa 1994 follow, in the same pixilated circle-vision as "Signs Of Life" on the previous disc. Both are terribly boring affairs -- "Great Gig" featuring blue computer-generated sperm flying about all over the place (and set to one of those unbearable live versions), and "Us and Them" showing loads of miners milling about (an homage to 'Radio K.A.O.S'? Not bloody likely). The insanely boring promo for "Take It Back" follows, sourced once again from the VH-1 Weekend. "Keep Talking" is a live clip from Boston in May of 1994, broadcast on MTV. Not all that different from the version on 'Pulse' when you get right down to it, and in dodgy quality to boot. Things look up with a clean copy of the "High Hopes" backdrop film, sourced from the official site.

A brief snippet from MTV's "Year in Rock 1994" is amusing enough ... Keith Richards tells us how "you could fit Peenk Floy-ed's stage in a coooornah" of the Stones' stage, before we switch shots and hear some pounding from PF's stage (still under construction), which Nick answers with a witty "come in?" followed with a brief bit of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and then some idiot fanboys gushing about their faith in concerts. Thorgerson website pixel-vision rears its' ugly head again on the commercial for 'Pulse' ... a red glowing insect, possibly radioactive, buzzes around some bushes, in through an open window, and into a sleeping man's ear. SOMETHING is up with that light, because he yawns and barfs out an owl a second later. The owl flies off and lands on a piling somewhere and looks at us smugly (proof that Owls are Assholes) before his face turns into a mirrored image of the 'Pulse' cover (stupid owl deserved it). Then comes a brief CNN clip of David Gilmour, Rick Wright, and Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins performing "Wish You Were Here" from the 1996 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Sadly, all that you really see is the scat bit at the end and the outro.

More pixelvision plagues the television ad for the 1997 remaster set, a somewhat interesting affair ... shot from the air looking straight down at bald men with scary faces painted on top of their heads looking at us. They mingle in a park for a bit before one hands another a wrapped package. He goes home and unwraps it on his desk and pulls out some shiny new remastered Pink Floyd CDs. Me, I want to know what park I can go to for free CDs. What follows is a television commercial for the 'Is There Anybody Out There ?' live set ... the words 'Pink Floyd' appear in Scarfe-ian script as Roger asks if there are any paranoids in the audience ... some blink-and-you'll-miss-'em shots of the wall collapsing and the schoolteacher puppet. "...paTHETic !" as the words 'The Wall Live : 1980-81' appear and the band kicks into "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)" and shows us some more maddeningly brief glimpses of the live show and the creepy life masks from the cover. Short, to the point, and utterly maddening as another reminder of all the film footage they refuse to release.

The Rock and Roll Feuds segment is entertaining enough in a way, featuring segments of the notorious "I'm cranky, me" 1987 interview with Roger in his shades and a snippet of the reconstituted PF's 1987 press conference, interspersed with someone babbling over shots from 'Delicate Sound Of Thunder,' "Arnold Layne," "Not Now John," and "Welcome to the Machine." Oh, and there is a hilarious sped-up shot of monkeys playing instruments near the beginning when they ask if Gilmour's PF is "the world's greatest cover band." The fun stops there though, as it's riddled with inaccuracies the rest of the way through. "The band made their American debut with 'Dark Side of the Moon'"??? "Keyboardist Bob Ezrin"??? Perhaps the most entertaining is when the narrator says "prompting Roger" as the picture switches to a shot of Rick Wright. I guess they all look the same in shades. Oh, and the announcer righteously mentions that the band is now more interested in producing "popular and fun" music. Guess he never listened to 'The Division Bell.'

The 'Confidential' segment is so terrible it's not really worth much of a mention. The trademark VH1 "let's make the camera slowly zoom in on a picture since we have no actual video" trick is heavily in play, as we hear about Syd hopping between mental institutions for the last 30 years. Who researches this crap? Actually, a better question would be who *fails* to research this crap?

The most entertaining segment of the 'Top Artists of Hard Rock' segment would be how they cleverly spliced the backing film for "Money" and 1980 Earl's Court footage of "Another Brick in the Wall" to make it look like the band is actually playing "Money" instead. Even Gilmour's lil' shoulder jive is in time. This is before the 'Pulse' audio of "Another Brick ..." is laid over top of the same scenes from the movie. Lita Ford, Alice Cooper, and Vernon Reid all rhapsodize about the band, followed by a segment of a sort of bastardized 'Delicate Sound Of Thunder' / 'Pulse' hybrid of "Comfortably Numb" and a short interview snippet with messrs. Gilmour and Wright individually. Waters fans will no doubt take offense to Rick's statement that "Pink Floyd is all about Dave, Nick, myself and how we play," but shouldn't take any when Gilmour talks about trying the best they can. Hey, the best you can is good enough, Dave.

The third disc also sends us into 2001, ending with not a bang, but a whimper. The American TV ad for 'Echoes' shows us a number we can call to order the album over some (mostly) all-too-familiar Pompeii and 'Pulse' footage. We close out the disc with the nearly 18 minute electronic press kit for 'Echoes' ... which features album covers and all-too-familiar pictures zooming in true VH1 style as Gilmour, Wright, Mason, Waters, and Thorgerson tell us a whole bunch of crap that we, the fans, already know. Ah well.

All in all I would highly recommend downloading or trading for this set, as it's a great 3+ hour video primer on the Floyd. It's not all encompassing, but it does have some neat stuff that's not circulating on the better-known video comps.

'Time'	'Momentary Lapse of Reason' Ad	1994 World Tour EPK
'Wish You Were Here' 1996-01-17	VH1 20 to 1 : Top Rock and Roll Feuds	'Echoes : The Best of Pink Floyd' Ad