Through the Camera Eye explained

Through the Camera Eye
Type:	Video
Artist:	Rush
Cover:	Through the Camera Eye.jpg
Released:	July 17, 1985 (Betamax, VHS, Laserdisc)
Recorded:	1981–1984
Genre:	Progressive rock
Length:	42:34
Next Title:	Chronicles
Next Year:	1990

Through the Camera Eye is a videocassette/laserdisc release by the Canadian band Rush. It was released in 1985 by PolyGram Records.^[1] It contains promotional videos issued for the band's albums Moving Pictures (1981), Signals (1982) and Grace Under Pressure (1984). Absent from the collection were the videos for "Limelight" and the album version of "Tom Sawyer", both filmed at Le Studio (the same locale as the "Vital Signs" video). The live version of "Tom Sawyer" comes from the concert video Exit... Stage Left (1982). No DVD re-issue was released.

The concept of "The Camera Eye" is a literary device used by the author John Dos Passos in his U.S.A. trilogy.

Track listing

1. "Distant Early Warning" - 5:31
2. "Vital Signs" - 4:42
3. "The Body Electric" - 5:08
4. "Afterimage" - 5:11
5. "Subdivisions" - 5:37
6. "Tom Sawyer" - 4:43
7. "The Enemy Within" - 4:22
8. "Countdown" - 5:56
9. "YYZ (Credits) - 1:24

Personnel

• Geddy Lee - Rickenbacker, Fender Jazz, Steinberger Bass, Minimoog Synthesizer and Moog Taurus Bass Pedals Oberheim OB-X, Oberheim OB-Xa, Oberheim DSX, Roland JP-8.
• Neil Peart - Electric and Acoustic Drums and Percussion
• Alex Lifeson - Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson ES-355 Electric Guitars and Moog Taurus Bass Pedals

Notes and References

1. Billboard May 25, 1985, page 27