Vid: Public Eye - All These Things
Anyway, as you'll have noticed, I've been trying to explain Public Eye since last November and failing. Now I've made a vid and that's the best explanation I have, and I'm happy at last:
All These Things
A Public Eye tribute.
(Length: 4.59 minutes)
"You've lived to be old... It's not a question of years, it's a question of seeing." Frank Marker and a life full of other people's problems.
Ever since I first watched this series, I've felt that a vid was the only way to respond, even though it's 40-50 year old UK TV, incredibly mundane, not pretty, and nearly half of it doesn't exist any more. (I couldn't even include a clip of Frank's set-up and arrest, because the S3 finale "Cross That Palm When We Come To It" was wiped long ago, along with 35 other 1960s episodes.)
It may be a TV series about a run-down private detective who deals only with the mundane sort of cases a real private eye might have taken on (divorce, credit checks, missing persons etc.) but it's a show that's immensely honest and it believes fiercely that you can make gripping TV out of someone buying a fridge or over-ordering carbon paper. The thing is, most of the time, it somehow manages to be right. And the lead actor has one of the most marvellously expressive faces I've seen. The song is over-used, I know, but it's taken me ages to give in and admit it was everything I wanted for the vid.
Notes & Warnings: Clips from S1-7. (Spoilers for S6 episode "The Man Who Said Sorry".) Mix of black & white and colour.
While Public Eye is 1960s/70s TV and not very graphic, the vid does contain some scenes of violence/death/suicide, particularly towards the end. There are also some prison-set scenes at the start.
Public Eye: All These Things from lostspook1 on Vimeo.
Password: frank
Music: "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers
Disclaimer: Done for love, not profit.
Link to vid at YouTube
(ETA: I'm finding the embed is slightly jerky (like YT, though not as bad). It isn't on Vimeo, or in my file. Maybe it's just me, but if it is, try the link instead. It's fine there.)
Song Lyrics:
When there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on
I want to stand up, I want to let go
You know, you know - no you don't, you don't
I want to shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand
Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no
Help me out
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out
And when there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
These changes ain't changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to be
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier (x10)
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Over and again, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done
All these things that I've done
(Time, truth, hearts)
If you can hold on
If you can hold on
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All These Things
A Public Eye tribute.
(Length: 4.59 minutes)
"You've lived to be old... It's not a question of years, it's a question of seeing." Frank Marker and a life full of other people's problems.
Ever since I first watched this series, I've felt that a vid was the only way to respond, even though it's 40-50 year old UK TV, incredibly mundane, not pretty, and nearly half of it doesn't exist any more. (I couldn't even include a clip of Frank's set-up and arrest, because the S3 finale "Cross That Palm When We Come To It" was wiped long ago, along with 35 other 1960s episodes.)
It may be a TV series about a run-down private detective who deals only with the mundane sort of cases a real private eye might have taken on (divorce, credit checks, missing persons etc.) but it's a show that's immensely honest and it believes fiercely that you can make gripping TV out of someone buying a fridge or over-ordering carbon paper. The thing is, most of the time, it somehow manages to be right. And the lead actor has one of the most marvellously expressive faces I've seen. The song is over-used, I know, but it's taken me ages to give in and admit it was everything I wanted for the vid.
Notes & Warnings: Clips from S1-7. (Spoilers for S6 episode "The Man Who Said Sorry".) Mix of black & white and colour.
While Public Eye is 1960s/70s TV and not very graphic, the vid does contain some scenes of violence/death/suicide, particularly towards the end. There are also some prison-set scenes at the start.
Public Eye: All These Things from lostspook1 on Vimeo.
Password: frank
Music: "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers
Disclaimer: Done for love, not profit.
Link to vid at YouTube
(ETA: I'm finding the embed is slightly jerky (like YT, though not as bad). It isn't on Vimeo, or in my file. Maybe it's just me, but if it is, try the link instead. It's fine there.)
Song Lyrics:
When there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on
I want to stand up, I want to let go
You know, you know - no you don't, you don't
I want to shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand
Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no
Help me out
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out
And when there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
These changes ain't changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to be
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier (x10)
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the backburner
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Over and again, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done
All these things that I've done
(Time, truth, hearts)
If you can hold on
If you can hold on
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. Please click through to comment. -- Current comments: