King Crimson - Live at Hyde Park (July 5th, 1969) - 8mm film

0:00 Preshow
0:06 21st Century Schizoid Man
0:59 Epitaph

I noticed no one had properly synced the infamous Hyde Park 8mm film, so I took it upon myself to sync this very short, tantalizing footage to the audience recording. I used the unedited VHS copy as a base and spliced in the HD official snippets when possible.

This footage originates from Greg Lake's archive and I have heard rumors that it was possibly his parents that filmed it in the crowd, giving a possible explanation of where he acquired it. The location of the reel itself nowadays is unknown, but it can be assumed it's in DGM's archive since Greg implied the reel was given to Robert for release.

Fortunately, a VHS copy of the entire unedited 8mm circulated recently, allowing me to get my hands on the unedited Crim footage and sync it as accurately as possible. The whole 8mm is actually two reels covering all the event's acts and preshow. Unfortunately, only less than a minute of it is actually of King Crimson. Here is a link to the full film, which is silent. The description contains a much more informative overview of the film's background, including things I didn't cover here, so be sure to check it out:    • Hyde Park 1969 silent 8mm film (King ...  

It is still unknown if Granada TV filmed any of the acts in color 16mm film other than the Rolling Stones' performance. Photos of King Crimson performing show operators manning at least one of the professional cameras right in front of the stage, but still nothing has turned up. The possible outcomes are either the show was filmed entirely, only a few clips were done to test the cameras or be used as stock footage, or maybe even the camera operators weren't filming yet and were just messing with the equipment before actual use. Fripp has claimed that they didn't film the event, but with the Chesterfield film popping out of nowhere, they could have just not gone through all the necessary means to contact this third party and see if they have it. Granada didn't have nearly as destructive of a policy as the BBC's infamous one at the time, but they didn't keep everything, so even if it was confirmed to be filmed, it would still be a question if it even exists anymore.