The Butterfly Ball (1976) VHSRip (XviD)

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This version of the classic 19th-century story includes audio by Roger Glover and animation/live action from Batchelor and Halas.

The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast is a concept album and subsequent live rock opera appearing in 1974 and 1975 respectively, based on the children's book of the same title (The album cover design is from Alan Aldridge's design for the book).

It was originally conceived as a solo vehicle for Jon Lord and to be produced by Roger Glover, but Lord proved too busy with Deep Purple and Glover took up the reins on his own. Using his connections, Glover recruited a large cast of noted rock musicians to perform on it, with a different vocalist for each track. The single Love is All, with vocals from Ronnie James Dio, made a minor impression in the UK but reached number one in The Netherlands. Its accompanying animated short also gained unexpected success in France, where the newly launched second TV channel Antenne 2 used it as a fill-in everytime it experienced "technical difficulties". These random airings, together with the psychedelic tone of the clip and the lack of subtitles, made it very popular amongst young viewers. The song has been used recently by the Dutch political party CDA in its election ads for the 2006 Dutch General Election.

On October 16th 1975, a one-off performance at the Royal Albert Hall took place. Again it had a star-studded cast of rock musicians, most notably Ian Gillan who was drafted in at the last minute and received a standing ovation on his entrance. He replaced an unavailable Ronnie James Dio who had commitments with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (although Dio did eventually get to perform the song at the Royal Albert Hall in 1999 as the guest of Deep Purple). Gillan had not performed since leaving Deep Purple in 1973. Also notable was the appearance of Vincent Price as narrator.

With:
Vincent Price ... Narrator (voice)
Roger Glover ... Himself
Twiggy ... Herself
Tony Ashton ... Himself
Helen Chapelle ... Herself
David Coverdale ... Himself
Ian Gillan ... Himself
John Gustafson ... Himself
Eddie Hardin ... Himself
Glenn V. Hughes III ... Himself
Earl Jordan ... Himself
Judi Kuhl ... Herself
Neil Lancaster ... Himself
John Lawton ... Himself
Mickey Lee Soule ... Himself

IMDB Link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074260/

=== File Information ===
File Name: The Butterfly Ball (1976).avi
Duration: 01:27:08 (125,351 fr)
File Size: 1,397 MB (or 1,431,030 KB or 1,465,374,720 bytes) bytes


=== Video Information ===
Video Codec Name: XviD
Video Bitrate: 2044 kb/s
Bits / Pixel: 0.287 bits/pixel
Resolution: 640x464 (1.38:1) [=40:29]
frames Per Second: 23.976 fps


=== Audio Information ===
Audio Codec: ac3 (0x2000) Dolby Laboratories, Inc
Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s (96/ch, stereo) CBR

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