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The Beautiful Experience

Special details Released: 3 April 1994 (UK) Director: Prince (as ) Producers: Prince (as Paisley Park) Productions Companies: Paisley Park Pictures Runtime: 69:31 minutes Technical Specification(s): Country: UK Language: English Sound Mix: Dolby Color: Color Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Original Channel(s): Sky One

The Beautiful Experience is a 1994 tv special that features concert footage, music videos and segues that loosely tell the story of a girl called Jan (Nona Gaye) who sits home alone and questions her self confidence. After seeing an ad in a copy of 10,000 magazine (an ad that is not in the actual 10,000 magazine) she calls 1-800-NEW-FUNK hoping to find a guy at the other end of the line. Instead she is connected with the NPG Operator (Rain Ivana). After paying $19.99 her computer gets access to a series of videos through to boost her self confidence. After spending an hour watching these videos, she eventually realizes she is ‘The Most Beautiful Girl In The World’. Most of the video footage Jan is watching (Interactive, Days Of Wild, The Jam, Shhh, and Now), the live footage of which was recorded at Paisley Park Studios on 13 February 1994. The footage for Loose! and Papa was shot somewhere in 1993. Snippets of footage from the Glam Slam Ulysses project are also used. Come is featured in a different version than the one that was eventually released on the Come album. Between all songs, except between The Jam and Shhh there are shorter or longer segues, connecting the songs. The TV-special first aired in the UK on 3 April 1994 on Sky One. Later it was also broadcast in Canada (MuchMusic, 11 April 1994), Spain (Canal+ España, 18 April 1994), Germany (18 April 1994), France (Canal+), Japan (WowWow) and again in the UK in December 1994, this time on Channel 4. The latter two broadcasts omit the post credits video for Beautiful that was in the original broadcast and some scenes with Nona Gaye have a slightly different edit. The Japanese broadcast of The Beautiful Experience (65:15 minutes) was released as a white label VHS in a plain white sleeve through Prince’s 1-800-NEW-FUNK website, along with a white label VHS of The Sacrifice Of Victor, which was also the Japanese version as broadcast by the WowWow channel. Track listing Intro Interactive Days Of Wild Come Race Acknowledge Me Pheromone The Jam Shhh Loose! Papa The Most Beautiful Girl In The World Now Poem (during end credits) Beautiful (omitted on later broadcasts) Cast & Crew Cast Nona Gaye - Jan Rain Ivana - NPG Operator Sonny T. Michael B. Mr. Hayes Tommy Barbarella Mayte Prince - Director Prince (as ) Producer Paisley Park Director Of Photography Giorgio Scali Supervising Editor Mitchell Sinoway 4 PAISLEY PARK Production coordinator Eric Mueller Art Direction Steve Parke A.R. Crew Lew Stricklen Rag Design Debbie McGuan Heidi Presnail Dresser Leanne Doescher Visage Tonya Thompson Stephanie Von Brunner Sherry Hartung Danielle Russell Fatima Robinson Choreography Jamie King & Editors Mitchell Sinoway Paris Patton Kim Logan Paisley Park Recording Engineers Ray Hahnfelt Dave Friedlander Kimm James Re-Recording/Sound Design Ken Dahlinger Framework Sound Additional Music Paul F. Antonelli Ron C. Cates David Novak Additional Photography Marc Reshovsky Paris Patton Assistant Camera Ken Glassing Andy palmer Scott Banac Slater Crosby Afshin Shahidi Gaffers Pat Grosswendt Shane Kelly Dave Palm Key Grips Milo Durben Dink Adams Best Boys Chris Malone Geoff Shotz Grip/Electric John Fruin Eric Nelson John Levy Jamie Franta Crane Victor Korte Special Effects Paul Murphy Eric Howell Video Assist Harland Snodgrass Judah Hannah Cone Chamberlain SFX Editors Ave Farmers Paul Menichini Foley Recordist Beau Maxwell Foley Artists Ginger Geary Robert Friedman Diane Parrino Production Assistance Bryan Wilmoth Steve Kelly Sean Healey Lisa Van Huffel Rag Construction Helen Ammann Christine Bur Michele Kielsa Kelly Homan James Shearon Karen Winkler Associate Producer Sharon Smith Logo Design Jeff Munson Lizz Luce Paisley Park Soundstage Red White Danny Soltys Todd Rask Crew & Credits {{{OtherCrew}}} [show]Click the show button on the right to expand this section. Making of Shooting Schedule & Locations Date Location Scenes 1993 Paisley Park Studos, Chanhassen, MN Papa & Loose! Videos 29 January 1994 Paisley Park Studos, Chanhassen, MN The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 13 February 1994 (a.m.) Paisley Park Studos, Chanhassen, MN   Additional Information Promotion (at time of release) Trivia References 1994 The Sacrifice Of Victor. Television Films And Specials 1996 Love 4 One Another.