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[no title] (06 Feb 1975)
[no title] Miles Hai production
Date: 06 Feb 1975
Location: Widener College, Chester, PA
Format: DVD
Duration: –
01- Titles
02- INCIDENT ON 57TH STREET
03- MOUNTAIN OF LOVE
04- BORN TO RUN
05- SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT
06- I WANT YOU
07- THUNDER ROAD
08- KITTY'S BACK
09- NEW YORK CITY SERENADE
10- ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT)
11- 4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY)


Track 06: fragment only
Track 11: partial

Lineage: ABMS - HD - you

A Miles Hai production
Black and white
Mono
NTSC
61 minutes

Notes from info file:
The footage has been restored by Miles Hai. The version I had was like looking into a grey carpet for the most part, whereas NOW it looks b/w! Original files were ripped from the Widener XP DVD and imported into Final Cut Express, where contrast, brightness, etc. were adjusted, chapter markers were added and the 60 cycle hum was removed from the audio. The Final Cut files were then imported into iDVD, where menues were created, and it was burned to disc. It's grainy, jumpy, muffled, and absolutely essential.

Notes from Brucebase:
One show, held in the 1,500 seat Widener Field House, with Springsteen & The E Street Band the sole act on the bill. This second night at Widener was a sellout. Video from this show has been in circulation since the late 1970s. The detail surrounding this video production has long been a source of speculation. For many years the circulating quality of the footage was uniformly poor. However portions of the video were shown in Springsteen TV documentaries in the '90s and the quality was significantly better than anything seen before. This has lent weight to a long held rumour that this footage (far from emanating from a shadowy fan) may have been shot by Widener students involved in a film-making course and that there may have been some pre-arranged conditional approval to film the concert from the Springsteen camp. Since then upgraded versions have made their way into DVD trading circles, but the quality still doesn't quite match up to what has been seen in documentaries. The partial setlist mentioned above is from an audio source generally believed to be directly associated with the film footage (i.e. soundtrack). Portions of the film footage are known to have been circulating among the Widener community as early as 1976. As is the case with the video footage, there are numerous bootlegged variations of the audio source in circulation, of varying quality and individual track completeness. However these 'variations' seem to be minor, all incorporate the same 9 songs from a show that featured approximately 16 songs in total.