Paul McCartney: son intérêt pour le clip vidéo

Paul McCartney: son intérêt pour le clip vidéo

Antoine DE CAUNES interviews Paul MC CARTNEY in English (not translated) about his interest in video clips. Antoine DE CAUNES: "Do you think the music video has become an art form?" Paul MC CARTNEY: "That’s interesting. Short films have always been interesting for directors, but nobody wants them. Cinemas don’t want short films like they used to. When I was a kid I went to the movies and there was an animated movie, trailers for the next week’s movie, short films, news and then the movie. Now we go to the movies just for the movie, maybe with a few commercials before. Nobody wants short films, but it’s always been a good art form. It doesn’t have to be 90 minutes; everything doesn’t take that long to explain. I think it’s a great opportunity for people who are interested in this form of film to afford it, you know, and it also means that people from the musical world are crossing paths with people from the film world, it’s good that people like me can direct things, while I don’t want to direct a feature film, I don’t think I’d be experienced enough but I’m sure I could put my ideas into it. So I think it’s a good exchange and there are some interesting things going on like computer animation, like commercials, a great opportunity to make new effects, new things. Antoine DE CAUNES: "But many musicians also become actors?" PMC: "Yes, sometimes some of them are good, you know, like Phil COLLINS, who was a child actor. In fact Phil COLLINS was in the first Beatles film "A hard day’s night" in England, "Four Boys in the Wind". ADC: "What was he doing in it?" PMC: "He was one of the children in the audience. I said to him, "I remember you well: you were the fourth from the right"

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File : French clip: the beginnings

Publication date : 1 December 1987