Some studios are fortunately realising that they can maximise sales of individual DVD releases by making them region-free instead of having to manufacture multiple region-specific copies- click on the picture on the right to see the text.

R-0074-3 Nashville Skyline Rag - version with Earl Scruggs on banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded at Tom Allen's home, Carmel, NY, 1970

R-0445 East Virginia Blues [traditional] - Earl Scruggs on banjo and Bob on guitar, recorded as R-0074

This film was broadcast on National Education TV in New York on 10-17 Jan 1971 as Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family & Friends.

R-0074 was first released on the Columbia album Earl Scruggs Performing With His Family & Friends in 1971 (see 1971). This album appeared for the first time on CD on a "2 on 1" Flatt & Scruggs re-release with 1972's Nashville Airplane on Collectable Records in 2000. R-0445 is unique to the video.

Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for details of the US DVD release called The Complete Earl Scruggs Story. This is now confirmed as the same material despite the new (misleading) title. Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information that this was also released in Germany as Alpha Centauri Entertainment ACE 11612 B (Region 0) using the same title. Thanks to Tricia Jungwirth for the information that the original 90 min film is now available on DVD and VHS as a private release by film maker David Hoffman - for more details, see http://thehoffmancollection.com/ads/Scruggs/Dylan.htm. Thanks to Tim Dunn for finding yet another current US release from Goldenlane Records, on sale at Barnes & Noble.
 

Earl Scruggs with Joan Baez and Bob - screenshot from amazon.com

Earl Scruggs with Bob - screenshot from David Hoffman's web-site

Goldenlane Records CLP 1608-9 (USA) 2006 DVD release - picture from Barnes & Noble web-site found by Tim Dunn

Thanks to Jack from Canada for the scan of the UNICEF Betamax format tape cassette - this must have been a promotional version distributed to members of UNICEF.

R-0484 If Not For You - a short clip of Bob and George Harrison performing this song early in the film, not included on the soundtrack album
This song is included in full in the extras on the 2005 expanded DVD edition, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3.

R-0075-2 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
This performance also appeared on a 1983 compilation from Columbia Brazil, The Legend, see 1983

R-0076-2 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
This performance also appeared on a 1995 Westwood One radio station broadcast about Dylan and the Beatles, see 1995.

R-0077-2 Blowin' In The Wind
This performance also appeared on an Epic promo CD single for The Concert For Bangladesh, see 1991.

R-0079-2 Just Like A Woman

Apple/Paramount LV 15167, Laserdisc (USA/Canada, 1995) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

Video Arts VALJ-3313 Laserdisc (Japan, 1990) - front scan by Hans Seegers (this release does not have an obi, just a red information sticker)

Video Arts VALJ-3313 Laserdisc (Japan, 1990) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

Thanks to Hans Seegers for the information that the 1990 Japanese laserdisc was a limited edition (his copy is #313).

The UK VHS release has now been deleted, but it was released on DVD in an expanded edition in the USA and UK on 24 Oct 2005, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3. Thanks to Paul S. Levine for the picture of the Oct 2005 US DVD.

Thanks to Alexandre Froemming for the Brazilian DVD shown on the left. This is a Region 0 release, almost certainly unauthorised by Paramount.

Dag Braathen informs me that, despite the fact it's a 1971 performance, Blowin' In The Wind (R-0077) was also included on a 1988 VHS video called Rock 'N' Roll -The Greatest Years: 1963, see VHS & DVD 1980s.

Both the cinema-released version (103 mins) and the Director's Cut (122 mins) of this film contain Dylan music not available on CD.

Full details of the Dylan tracks included in both versions of the film are listed in Glen Dundas' book "Tangled Up In Tapes", edition 4 (1999)

Thanks to Larry Crum for VHS video information. Thanks to Ronald Born for the scan of the West German VHS release and to Patrick Helfrich for the much rarer Betamax version - both have the same catalogue number. The running time is approx 105 mins, which indicates it's the original version. The title is translated as "Pat Garrett Jagt Billy The Kid [Pat Garrett Hunts Billy The Kid]".

Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for information that a 2DVD set was released in the USA on 10 Jan 2006 with a "2005 Special Edition" version of the film on disc 1 and a "1998 Turner Preview Version" on disc 2  (see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3). Exactly what Dylan music these two versions contain will be added when information is available.

R-0221 Blowin' In The Wind - duet with Joan Baez, officially released on her 1993 Vanguard boxed set Rare, Live & Classic, see 1993

Railroad Boy (Traditional) - duet with Joan Baez, officially unreleased

Deportees (Woody Guthrie) - duet with Joan Baez, officially unreleased

I Pity The Poor Immigrant - duet with Joan Baez, officially unreleased

However, this film contains about 43 minutes of amazing concert footage of Bob in concert with the Rolling Thunder Revue in late 1975, and is worth re-releasing on DVD for that alone! Some of this footage appeared on the bonus DVD with the Limited Edition of The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue.

Although a soundtrack album was never released, a Columbia promo four-song 12" EP was released in the USA to coincide with the showing of the film in cinemas (see 1978). Two of these songs have now been released on CD, live performances of Isis on Biograph (see 1985), and It Ain't Me, Babe on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5 - Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue (see 2002).

Thanks to C P Lee and Jack from Canada for the US, UK and French film posters.

Italian film poster - scans of original US posters required!

Film poster from Spain, where it was retitled "El Ultimo Rock" - photo by CP Lee

R-0142-2 Forever Young - version with second verse missing - the Rhino Records 4CD boxed set has the full version R-0630, see 2002

R-0143-3 Baby Let Me Follow You Down ((Rev Gary Davies, arr. Eric von Schmidt) - reprise
Thanks to Larry Crum for pointing out that the video performance of this track has more of the intro riffs than the edit on the audio releases (see 1978 for the 3LP set and 2002 for the 4CD boxed set). This is also true of the performance on the 2002 DVD, see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 1.

R-0144-3 I Shall Be Released

R-0142/0143 - Bob Dylan with The Band; R-0144 - Bob Dylan with The Band and ensemble.

R-0140 (Baby Let Me Follow You Down) and R-0141 (I Don't Believe You) from the soundtrack album are missing from the film itself - apparently on Bob's instructions, his performance was only filmed from R-0142 onwards. Thanks to Fred Muller from New Zealand for pointing this out.

This last concert by The Band (in their prime incarnation) took place at Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 25 Nov 1976, and was filmed by Martin Scorcese. A "Director's Cut", longer than the commercial video, has been shown on TV in the UK. For more information on these releases, including a full track listing, see Jan Hoiberg's Band site

The VHS edition with the blue sleeve is still available in the UK, where the 2002 Expanded Edition has not yet been released.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for scans of the Japanese laserdisc and to Frank Faugere for the scan of the French SECAM VHS release.

Aug 1994 UK (PAL) VHS release - MGM/UA S050482

USA (NTSC) VHS release

Danish (PAL) VHS release - Warner Home Video 474345, front picture by Ulf Gyllenspetz

Aug 2001 UK (PAL) VHS release - MGM/UA 17337S

Danish (PAL) VHS release - Warner Home Video 474345, rear picture by Ulf Gyllenspetz

MGM/UA Home Video ML 100482 Laserdisc (USA, 1985

United Artists NJEL-99354 Laserdisc (Japan, 1998) - front scan by Hans Seegers

United Artists NJEL-99354 Laserdisc (Japan, 1998) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

United Artists 99354 SVVS (France) - SECAM VHS release, scan by Franck Faugere

RCA SelectaVision CED VideoDisc release, 1981 - picture found by Jack from Canada

East German poster - scan by Ronald Born

Thanks to Jack from Canada for finding a picture of the very rare 1981 RCA SelectaVision CED VideoDisc release of this film. CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) was a short-lived video format that was sold in the USA between 1981 and 1986. The 12" LP-sized discs were housed in a hard plastic cartridge, which was inserted into the player (much like a giant Sony MiniDisc). The discs were played by a stylus, like an LP. The cartridges had labels pasted on the top and bottom of the plastic cartridge. Scans of this item (which is probably the only CED release featuring Bob) required. (An RCA CED sampler disc included Neil Diamond's performance from this film, but not Bob.)

R-0520 "HwyCDRrev" informs me this Beatles spoof originally released in 1978 contains a clip from the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival with Bob and The Band on stage. Apparently Bob is just shown for a second, possibly reaching for something behind him, there is no audio.

"A year later the Rutles were caught up in another scandal. In the heady atmosphere of San Francisco of the mid sixties, Bob Dylan had introduced the Rutles to a substance that was to have enormous effects on them: Tea. They enjoyed its pleasant effects, despite warnings that it would lead to stronger things, and it enormously influenced their greatest work, Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band."

For more information on the Rutles, see

Thanks to Freddy Ordoñez Araque for information about the UK DVD releases. The Cinema Club standard edition is 71 mins, while the 2002 Second Sight Special Edition is 73 mins, as is my 2005 release.

R-0506    Excerpt from interview with Bob at Columbia Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 16 Dec 1965

R-0319-2 I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - recorded with the Hawks at Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 May 1966, from the unreleased documentary "Eat The Document" (see above)

This R-0319 clip was also used in the 1987 video The Fabulous 60s Vol. 7 (see VHS & DVD 1980s), and also appears in the 1994 Robbie Robertson video Going Home (see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 1), and in the 1996 boxed sets The Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll and Dancing In The Street (for both see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 2). Both clips were used in the 2003 Ed Sullivan Show set "Rock 'N' Roll Forever" + Rock 'N' Roll Revolution" (see VHS & DVD 2000s Part 2).

This programme also contains a clip of the Subterranean Homesick Blues segment from Don't Look Back, see above. Fred Muller adds: "At the start, before the opening credits with the juke box, there's about 30 seconds of a close-up of Dylan in concert, in colour, in what would seem come from one of the Rolling Thunder shows, doing the first verse of Just Like a Woman." This would be from the film Renaldo & Clara, recorded at Providence, RI, 4 Nov 1975 (evening show), see above.