the footage of jim driving in the desert...
does anyone know about this footage? when it was filmed? for what purpose? previously release? the digital transfer was terrific i thought and i would love to know any info about it. super thanks.
sharein the beginning he was hitch hiking and then he was alone in the car. on the album an american prayer he was a hitch hiker who killed the family and made a call from a pay phone. i am wondering if there was ever a video shot for that purpose??
shareIt's from a short film Jim shot in 1969 called HWY about a hitchhiker (Morrison) who catches a ride and (presumably) kills the driver and takes his car before going into LA.
Yes, Vader was just a whiny teenager who never got his way. Deal with it.
That HWY footage is so well preserved, it doesn't look like it is over 40 years old!!
Probably the reason why some clueless critics thought that the director filmed it in 2009 and stuck it in to fool moviegoers.
so that was actually Jim? I assumed it was some actor, and that part was recently filmed, but then wasn't sure when he was at the gas station. The gas pumps etc were obviously authentic late 60s.
shareIt was pure, 100% Jim
Yes, Vader was just a whiny teenager who never got his way. Deal with it.
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<No offense, heezgawn - but how does a Doors fan not recognize Jim Morrison?>
Well, the video looked too clear to have been shot in 1968, which put the notion in my mind that the footage was some kind of re-enactment with a Jim lookalike. In fact I actually thought the guy didn't really look all that much like Jim. I was thinking that Jim's face was more bloated that that guy's. But as we know, Jim was kind of a chameleon. (sp) His look seemed to be ever changing.
All the footage was cleaned up...it was shown in HD on PBS. But the biggest tipoff that the footage from HWY is authentic period is that EVERY vehicle in sight during those clips, and there are a LOT of them, are all circa late 60s.
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Yes there is no doubt, it's HWY: An American Pastoral from 1969.
I too thought it was an actor maybe Johnny Depp playing Jim and it must have tricked a lot of viewers into thinking the same thing.
its actually out take material from HWY. dicillo claims that he did not use any of the finished footage.
shareEven Johnny Depp is not that good looking. :) Or tall - JD is a slight fellow.
shareI thought it was a very good look alike until coming onto this board. Looked really crisp and too clean to be from the 60s. Great job on the HD transfer
You might lose with me, but you will never win without me!
The video was so clear and crisp that I thought it was a re-enactment or a fantasy sequence with a really good lookalike. I had no prior knowledge of HWY before seeing When You're Strange.
Go take a step outside - see what's shaking in the real world.
<In fact I actually thought the guy didn't really look all that much like Jim. I was thinking that Jim's face was more bloated that that guy's. But as we know, Jim was kind of a chameleon.> -heezgawn
Bingo. I guess if Jim's own family didn't recognize him from that giant billboard, what chance the rest of us have, eh?
I thought WOW .. they had HD back then! Then realized it was shot on film and yes. GREAT CLEAR PICTURE WOW! I thought for a while if it was an actor.. Till I recognized the part of Jim screaming while driving from another Doors doc I saw years ago..
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"If you give this man a ride sweet family will die"
"Nobody is free, even the birds are chained to the sky" - Bob Dylan
Just a note. That is not the Dylan quote. He does say, in Ballad In Plain D: "My friends from the prison, they ask unto me,\"How good, how good does it feel to be free?"\And I answer them most mysteriously,\"Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"
shareBaaa why does nobody know this quote D: he sung it or said it not sure, but its been so long I cant remember where.
"Nobody is free, even the birds are chained to the sky" - Bob Dylan
i totally thought it was an actor playing Jim, it really pissed me off early on in the film coz it seemed totally cheesy so im glad to hear it was him. It is really clear but the HD filming or what ever they did to clean it did the job... to much i suppose for my cynical mind. xxx
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