At the time, Queen's Budapest concert was the biggest by a western group behind the Iron Curtain, but certainly not the first, as Dire Straits and Elton John had played in the region before Queen did. Tickets sold out very quickly, although they were available only in selected places, and to selected people.
The concert was filmed by a large group of people, including the state filming corporation (MaFilm). It was also notably much cheaper to film here than in the west. The gear used (including seventeen 35mm cameras and 25 miles of film) was all the available gear in the country, and the entire operation was approved by the Hungarian government.
The film plays too fast (23 frames per second instead of the usual 24), resulting in the audio sounding one semitone too high (the eye can't tell the difference in movement of one frame per second, but the ear can hear the slight difference in pitch). Needless to say, the show was beautifully filmed. The lighting rig looks spectacular at every moment. Freddie surely stepped up his game a notch for the cameras, and his voice was in phenomenal shape.
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