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''The Concert for Bangladesh'' is a film directed by Saul Swimmer and released in 1972. The film documents the two benefit concerts that were organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar to raise funds for refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War, and were held on Sunday, 1 August 1971 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. As well as notable performances from Harrison and Shankar, the film includes "main performer" contributions from Harrison's fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, Billy Preston and Leon Russell, and a surprise walk-on from Bob Dylan. Other contributing musicians include Ali Akbar Khan, Eric Clapton, the band Badfinger, Klaus Voormann, Jesse Ed Davis, Jim Horn and Jim Keltner. The film was the final part of Harrison's "pioneering" aid project for the people of former East Pakistan,〔The Editors of ''Rolling Stone'', p. 43.〕 following his "Bangla Desh" charity single, the UNICEF benefit concerts, and a triple live album of the event credited to "George Harrison and Friends". ''The Concert for Bangladesh'' was produced by The Beatles' Apple Films; after delays caused by problems with inadequate footage from the event, it opened in US cinemas in the spring of 1972. The film was released on DVD in 2005 accompanied by a newly created documentary feature, ''The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited with George Harrison and Friends'', which included recollections from many of the project's participants and contextual input from then UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, US Fund for UNICEF president Charles Lyons and Live Aid founder Bob Geldof. As with the live album, sales of the DVD release of the film continue to benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF. ==Production== (詳細はSaul Swimmer's ''Concert for Bangladesh'' documentary combined footage from both of the Madison Square Garden shows held on 1 August 1971, using George Harrison's preference of the performances of the songs. Harrison later explained that much of the concert footage was unusable, as a camera on the right-hand side of the venue was faulty and out of focus throughout, while the one opposite, down the left side, had cables hanging down in front of it.〔Badman, p. 79.〕〔George Harrison, pp 60–61.〕 The compromised quality would result in some brutal edits in the released movie〔〔Leng, p. 117.〕 – Eric Clapton, for instance, appears to change jackets and guitar part-way through a song (Leon Russell's medley in particular). In an interview accompanying the 2005 DVD release of the film, Swimmer would cite the audio syncing and the frame-by-frame conversion to 70mm format (from the original 16mm) as other challenging, labour-intensive tasks.〔Interview with Saul Swimmer, in ''The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited''.〕 With work almost completed on the ''Concert for Bangladesh'' live album, Harrison is said to have begun editing the footage on 6 September;〔Badman, p. 47.〕 at some stage during the next few months, he was joined in this lengthy process by Bob Dylan.〔〔Clayson, p. 315.〕 A clip of Harrison's performance of "My Sweet Lord" was previewed during his appearance on ABC-TV's ''The Dick Cavett Show'' on 23 November,〔Badman, p. 55.〕 but the movie would not be ready for release until the following spring. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Concert for Bangladesh (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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