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. “We probably made something like 50 attempts at the single and they were all terrible,” Donwood told“We hired a VHS and went out and filmed stuff on the video camera. We would then take out the cassette and play it on a VCR and take photographs of the television and then go to the photo-developing shop in town and get our photos developed and scan the photos and use that. We wanted the degradation you get from that process. At the time, it seemed like the modern world. It was quite something.
For the album artwork, Donwood first thought of shooting a real iron lung. “We were up against a deadline for the cover,” he recalled. “Somehow, I don’t know how we did that, but we snuck a video camera into a hospital, which I’m sure you’re not supposed to do. I think at the time I’d heard that they actually had an old iron lung. It’s a very boring object. It’s just a big metal box. You pressurize someone that can’t breathe properly. It must have been horrible.
Instead, Donwood captured a photograph of a TV screen showing a video of a resuscitation dummy. “It’s got those metal nipples,” he said. “I’ve never had direct contact with them. I’ve seen them on the telly when someone’s heart has stopped and you give them an electric shock to restart it. It’s to practice mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The expression on the dummy and the angle we filmed it from, it looked somewhere between agony and ecstasy. It’s an ambiguous expression.
“As far as I can remember, the words were originally about some loony girl I was going out with, but after a while, they got mixed up with ideas about success and failure,” he toldin 1996. “It was an old demo we thought was rubbish, you know, too Rod Stewart or something. But when we came back to the track one day, it seemed like a mirror showing us all the things we had been through.”Jamie Thraves was approached by Radiohead’s creative director, Dilly Gent, to direct the video for “Just.
The ending Thraves is referring to is the moment when the man in the video tells the assembled crowd why he’s lying on the sidewalk — he mouths his words but there’s no sound. So what’s the reason? “I haven’t told anyone in 25 years,” Thraves says. “I had no idea the video was going to cause so many people to ask what the man said. At the time I simply felt I had no choice but to subtract what was said, it created the magic. To reveal the answer would kill the video.
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