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'''''Closure''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 12]]''''') is a double VHS video set by [[Nine Inch Nails]] released on November 25, 1997. The first tape is a documentary of the [[Self_Destruct_Touring_Cycle|Self-Destruct Tour]], and the second tape is a compilation of [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music videos]] that had been created up to that point. A DVD release was planned for 2004, but never materialized. A prototype of the DVD was then leaked in 2006.
''Closure'' was originally intended to also have a release on LaserDisc, and pre-orders were taken by Trimark, but the release was canceled.[https://www.theninhotline.com/features/news.nin.net/monthly_041998.html] In 2021, a [[Hoaxes_and_jokes#nin.com_Memorial_Day_sale|fake LaserDisc]] of ''Closure'' was put up for sale on the [[nin.com]] store as a joke. According to [[Russell Mills]], who created the artwork, a live album was also planned as a companion to ''Closure'' and artwork was made for it, but the idea was scrapped. The unused paintings can be seen [http://www.permanence.de/millscat/nin/index.html ] The unused paintings can be seen [http://www.russellmills.com/art-1990s/ here].
==Video listing==
*Stills gallery
*Easter eggs (accessed by pressing return on the respective menus)
**Live clip of [[NIN]] performing "Down In It" at ''Dance Party USA'' (accessible from main menu)
**Live clip of NIN performing "[[Sex Dwarf]]" (accessible from extras menu)
# Hurt. 1994.
#* (19:15) Behind-the-scenes of scrapped "Hurt" video
# [[Woodstock '94|Woodstock. 1994]].
#* (22:50) Live footage: Introduction and "[[Reptile]]"
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#* (31:37) Live: Reznor plays a keyboard solo from "[[Happiness In Slavery (song)|Happiness In Slavery]]"
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#* (32:46) Alternate First half of alternate "March of the Pigs" video
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#* (34:17) Live: "Mr. Self Destruct"
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#* (38:25) Live: "Big Man with a Gun" filmed from offstage
#* (40:22) Someone [[James Woolley]] does a trick with their his eyes
#* (40:26) Snippet of alternate "March of the Pigs" video
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#* (40:44) "[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]" video behind-the-scenes
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#* (42:50) [[Woodstock '94]] footage: "Something I Can Never Have"
[[Image:Closurepart2.jpg|thumb|Part 2 VHS artwork]]
===Part 2===
Part 2 shows the music videos, in order, that were released up to the point of the release of ''Closure.'' The videos are linked together by interstitial footage directed by [[Peter Christopherson]], as well as odd bits of old black and white stock footage.
Additional items are included on the DVD version:
*Behind-the-scenes footage documenting the creation of the "Closer" video with commentary by [[Mark Romanek]]
*Easter egg clip of British Airways cabin crew listening to "''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]" '' and reading the lyrics to "Reptile" from its booklet.
==DVD==
An improved DVD version was first announced via QuickTime trailer on nin.com, to be released in late 2004, but due to issues with lack of interest by [[Interscope Records]], this has yet to it did not happen. On December 20, 2006, two DVDs of ''Closure'' were leaked through the use of posted on The Pirate Bay's BitTorrenttracker. Shortly after the leak, a message on Trent Reznor's personal blog on [[The Spiral]] was posted possibly linking Reznor himself to the leak:
12/21/2006 : HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
If you know what I'm talking about, cool.
[[Rob Sheridan]] has since confirmed that the leak was from the NIN camp.[https://www.patreon.com/posts/rob-sheridan-ama-34278427] The download is intended to be burned onto dual-layer discs. A three-disc, single-layer version was eventually supposed to be uploadedpromised for later, but it never materialized. The prototype is currently available on archive.org.[https://archive.org/details/NINCLOSUREPROTOTYPE] ''Closure'': Part 1 and all of the bonus material from both parts of the DVD version have been uploaded to the official Nine Inch Nails Vimeo account. As was the case with the ''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'' DVD, the menus are accompanied by several different dark ambient music pieces recorded specifically for them.
Several years before this higher quality DVD was leaked, a commercial bootleg DVD version of the original VHS titled "''Rated 'R' - A Retrospective" '' was spread aroundreleased. Aside from the main menus which were fan-created, it is virtually identical to ''Closure''.
==Credits==
*Executive Producer: [[John A. Malm, Jr.]], [[Nothing Records]], Inc.
This project was made possible through the efforts of:
Jeff Anderson, Gretchen Anderson, Steve Berman, Jennifer Carpenter, Diane Mayer, [[Brian Pollack]], Ross Rosen, Dawn Zillich, Sioux Zimmerman
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*Package by [[Gary Talpas]]
*All Paintings by Russell Mills
*Photography by Andrew Morris
Part 1:
*Directed by: Jonathan Rach
*Editorial Assistants: Michael Bouchet, Brian Boyd, Tracey Browne, Frank Lagnese
*Production Manager: D'arcy Mastrangelo
Nine Inch Nails: [[Charlie Clouser]], [[Robin Finck]], Danny Lohner, Trent Reznor, [[Chris Vrenna]], [[James Woolley]]
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Thanks to Nine Inch Nails' Special Guests: [[Related bands and artists#Die Krupps|Die Krupps]], [[Related bands and artists#Fem 2 Fem|Fem2Fem]], [[Related bands and artists#Hole|Hole]], Marilyn Manson, [[Related bands and artists#The Melvins|Melvins]], [[Related bands and artists#PIG|Pig]], [[Pop Will Eat Itself]], [[Prick]], [[Jim Rose Circus|The Jim Rose Circus]], [[Related bands and artists#Treponem Pal|Treponem Pal]], [[Related bands and artists#Type O Negative|Type O Negative]]
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*Editor: Peter Christopherson & Scott Richter
*Production Design: Mike Grant
Special Thanks: Jeff Anderson, Steve Berman, David Bowie, Ann Brubaker, Paul Conolly, Hank Corwin, Sheria Reise Davies, Renee Dodson, James Dowdall, Erin Gilligan, David Johnson, Sam Kirby, Bob Kubic, [[David Lynch]], Diane Mayer, Lynn McDonnell, Jacqueline McPherson, Tina Montalbano, Fiz Oliver, Michael Papale, Brian Pollack, Cordelia Plunket, Rodney Robertson, Brenda Romano, Jay Sendyk, Adam Stern, Oliver Stone, Mary Sweeney, Rick Szekelyi
==Original live footageAbandoned 1995 tour film==The original live document of NIN's 1994-1995 tour [[Self Destruct Touring Cycle]] (more specifically, the [[Further Down The Spiral Tour]]) was to be helmed by Simon Maxwell, director of the videos for "Hurt", "Eraser" and the live video for "The Downward SpiralWish". The footage was eventually rejected and footage that had been shot concurrently by Jonathan Rach and Jeff Richter was compiled instead. Maxwell expounded on this in an interview [httphttps://pantograph-punch.com/postposts/interview-with-simon-maxwell]: <blockquote>Yeah. I shot all this footage. This is a really funny story, actually. We shot all this footage, and put it all together, and sent it over to Trent, and.... I don’t know what was going on. But anyway… he didn’t like some of it. For various reasons. I have no idea why. So we cut three or four of the songs, and they were okay, and then… we didn’t hear from him anymore. '''So to clarify, you were cutting songs from the tour, not from that studio shoot in New York you did [for "Hurt"]?''' From the live tour. We were going to do a whole live thing. So we shot all across the States. And we recut it several times, and then there was – I’m not sure if there was a falling out between management – with him and Interscope? There was some politics going on in the background. And so, yeah, that was probably the last time I saw him. '''So he said "no" to that stuff you’d shot with a million cameras.''' Well, it was the editing side of it. Because it was such a huge thing, we had three or four editors working on it just to get through it all. So from memory, there were three or four songs that worked really well, but some of the others.... I dunno. '''So from there, you all decided to cut it back and make it much simpler, and we have the "Hurt" video we know today?''' Well that was done earlier. That was done about six or eight months earlier. Then Trent wanted a documentary-style thing of the tour. So we shot loads for footage of the tour. We had 35mm cameras on the main performance, and then Super 8s on the audience. There was reams and reams of footage. And from what I remember, someone stole all the Super 8 footage! It just disappeared. It was shot all over the country in the States, then it was shipped to LA and then it was shipped back to England. When we came to put it all together, a lot of the Super 8 footage had disappeared. I knew we had it – I had seen the rolls of film – but when we came to put it together – you know, we had these rolls sitting next to the telecine machine - I am going, "Where the fuck is all the Super 8?" Because that was the idea, capturing the essence of the whole gig on Super 8, and intercutting it with the high production, 35mm stuff. But – it disappeared! '''How weird.''' That kind of put a spanner in the works, and we were really short on that footage. It’s not something you can go back and repeat again. So yeah, that did cause a problem. And we didn’t reshoot anything as the tour had finished.</blockquote>
==External Links==
*[httphttps://archive.org/details/NINCLOSUREPROTOTYPE ''Closure'' DVD Prototype at archive.org]*[https://vimeo.com/61998095 ''Closure'': Part 1 at Vimeo (NSFW)]*[httphttps://vimeo.com/17035299 Appendage: 1989-1991 at Vimeo]*[httphttps://vimeo.com/65914235 Appendage: 1994-1997 at Vimeo(NSFW)]*[httphttps://vimeo.com/3704806 Behind The Scenes of "Closer" at Vimeo]*[httphttps://pantograph-punch.com/postposts/interview-with-simon-maxwell Interview with Simon Maxwell]*[httphttps://nincatalogwww.youtube.com/closure/ ''Closure'' at nincatalog.comwatch?v=Xq8Hebx_Wp0 Abandoned Simon Maxwell tour film]*[httphttps://www.nincollectornincatalog.com/archiveclosure/releases/halo_12/halo12.htm ''Closure'' at nincollectornincatalog.com]
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