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Epic/Legacy Recordings to Release 'Michael Jackson's Vision,' the First-Ever Complete Collection of All the Short Films Produced by Michael Jackson
By Staff
posted Oct 13, 2010, 12:03
Jackson's short-form zombie dance party masterpiece, "Thriller," famously directed by John Landis, remains a cultural phenomenon. It recently became the first (and only) music video to be inducted by the Library of Congress into the National Film Registry, an elite collection of only a few hundred films.
'Michael Jackson's Vision' Available Everywhere Monday, November 22
(NEW YORK) In collaboration with the Estate of Michael Jackson, Epic/Legacy
Recordings is releasing Michael Jackson's Vision on November 22, making available
for the first time ever the entire library of short films produced by Michael
Jackson during his career as a solo artist.
Packaged as a deluxe boxed set, Michael Jackson's Vision contains more than
four-and-one-half hours of content across three DVDs, capturing the entire spectrum
of Michael's pioneering short films that transformed the entertainment industry
with timeless, pop culture classics that today's youth embrace with as much
passion as their parents did a generation earlier.
Michael Jackson's Vision brings together more than 40 videos, ten of them previously
unavailable on DVD and each presented in newly restored color and remastered
audio. And this release marks the debut of the short film for the R. Kelly-penned
"One More Chance."
The simultaneous emergence of MTV as a television force and Michael Jackson's
breakout as a global superstar provided the most epochal musical/cultural shift
since the Beatles. Seizing the potential of MTV's 24-hour reach, Michael Jackson
produced and starred in a series of what would become iconic short musical films
that redefined and established the perimeters, and parameters, of an entire
new medium.
Jackson's short-form zombie dance party masterpiece, "Thriller,"
famously directed by John Landis, remains a cultural phenomenon. It recently
became the first (and only) music video to be inducted by the Library of Congress
into the National Film Registry, an elite collection of only a few hundred films.
Michael Jackson's Vision includes the full-length versions of the John Landis-directed
"Thriller" and "Black or White" as well as the classic "Bad"
directed by Academy Award ® -winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Also included
in the boxed set are Michael's collaborations with such other noted film directors
as John Singleton, Spike Lee and David Fincher as well as "Ghosts,"
his rarely-seen collaboration with special effects legend Stan Winston.
Michael Jackson's Vision will be available in a limited edition deluxe boxed
set featuring a 60-page glossy hard-bound book that includes behind-the-scenes
photos from Michael's personal archives.
The state-of-the-art packaging includes cover art using lenticular virtual
imaging technology to vividly represent memorable scenes from Michael Jackson's
signature short films.
Resources:
http://www.legacyrecordings.com
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