This is an interesting pioneering piece of work in video art realized in 1969 by Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik. The authors take filmed and sound extracts from a Beatles concert, as well as the visual rendition of the concert sound on the monitors of the recording equipment, process the images and the sound to create something new and different. Is this a completely new idea? Probably not if you consider that collage is an accepted technique in fine arts since the beginning of the 20th century. It looks to me like the masters of collage in the dadaist movement would have assimilated and adopted this short but fascinating piece of video work and made it part of their shows. Today's computer effects place overcome by ages the technical capabilities of the 60s, so that the visual effect may not be that impressive, yet this is a document and a path opener.
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