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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.
==Video listing==
===Part 1===
[[Image:Closurepart1.jpg|thumb|Part 1 VHS artwork]]
Part 1 shows live and behind-the-scenes footage from the Self-Destruct Tour. The titles in brackets were given to those portions when ''Closure'' was authored for DVD.
#(00:00) [introduction](opening montage, fans, etc.)
#(03:17) "[[Terrible Lie]]"
#(08:33) [preparation](fans, backstage footage)
#(13:10) "[[Piggy]]"
#(17:25) "[[Down In It (song)|Down In It]]"
#(21:45) [complication]([[Robin Finck]]'s injury, light show problems, etc.)
#(25:52) "[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]"
#(29:48) [peregrination](travel)#(31:21) [exhibition]([[Related_bands_and_artists#Jim_Rose_Circus|Jim Rose Circus]])
#(33:27) "[[The Only Time]]"
#(38:49) [chaos](discussing [[Woodstock '94]], injuries, backstage antics, instrument destruction)#(43:57) [congregation](audience montage set to "[[Sanctified]]")
#(46:01) "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]"
#(49:40) [miscellany](injuries, working on ''[[Natural Born Killers Soundtrack]]'', [[David Bowie]])#(54:26) "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]" (with [[David Bowie]])#(60:15) [diversion](band or crew members goofing around)
#(62:06) "[[Something I Can Never Have]]"
#(68:23) [conclusion] (Super 8 footage montage set to "[[A Warm Place]]")
#(71:27) [credits]
#* (00:06) MTV News dressing room interview, [[Trent Reznor|Reznor]] and [[Richard Patrick]]
#* (00:29) Live snippet of "[[Get Down, Make Love]]"
#* (00:45) (cont'd) MTV News dress room interview, Reznor and Patrick (continued)
#* (00:56) Live snippet of "[[Sin (song)|Sin]]"
#* (01:17) MTV interview clip, [[Lollapallooza '91]] opening night
#* (01:43) Live footage: "[[Now I'm Nothing]]"
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#* (03:42) (cont'd) Live footage: "Terrible Lie"
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#* (08:57) MTV News interview, Reznor explains Phoenix Lollapalooza technical difficulties
#* (10:01) Live snippet of "Sin"(continued)
#* (10:20) MTV News dressing room interview, Reznor
# First live show. [[1988/10/21 Cleveland, OH|Cleveland, 1989]].#* (10:52) Live footage: "[[Sanctified]]"from first NIN live show
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#* (14:06) MTV Lollapallooza interview, Reznor discusses large vs. small venues
#* (14:15) Live snippet of "Down In It"
#* (14:44) Lollapallooza Phoenix interview: Punishing equipment
#* (14:57) (cont'd) Live snippet of "Down In It"(continued)
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#* (15:33) Band rehearses "[[Big Man with a Gun]]"
#* (17:31) Keyboard destruction
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#* (17:37) Live footage: "[[Get Down, Make Love]]"# Hurt. 1994.
#* (19:15) Behind-the-scenes of scrapped "Hurt" video
# [[Woodstock '94|Woodstock. 1994]].#* (22:50) Live footage: Introduction and "[[Reptile]]"from Woodstock '94
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#* (29:49) Band in studio listen to prank phone sex call, ending with mix into "[[Memorabilia]]"
#* (42:50) Woodstock '94 footage: "Something I Can Never Have"
===Part 2===
[[Image:Closurepart2.jpg|thumb|Part 2 VHS artwork]]
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.
#"[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]" – 4:31
#"[[Closer]]" – 4:36
#"[[The Perfect Drug (song)|The Perfect Drug]]" – 4:13
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.
==Other Formats=====LaserDisc===''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. ===DVD===An improved DVD version was announced via a QuickTime trailer on nin.com, to be released in late 2004, but due to lack of interest by [[Interscope Records]], it did not happen. On December 20, 2006, two DVDs of ''Closure'' were posted by a user named "seed0" on The Pirate Bay's BitTorrent tracker. Shortly after the leak, a message on Trent Reznor's personal blog on [[The Spiral]] was posted , linking Reznor himself to the leak:
12/21/2006 : HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
==Abandoned 1995 tour film==
The original live document of NIN's [[Self Destruct Touring Cycle]] (more specifically, the [[Further Down The Spiral Tour]]) was helmed by Simon Maxwell, director of the videos for "Hurt", "Eraser" , and the live video for "Wish". The footage was eventually rejected and Hi8 footage that had been shot concurrently by Jonathan Rach and Jeff Richter was compiled instead. Maxwell expounded on this in an interview [https://pantograph-punch.com/posts/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.
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>
The original 1995 footage finally surfaced on YouTube on April 6, 2022. [https://ninlive.com/shows/other/live1995.html] It had been preserved via a personal VHS copy made by someone who worked at the London editing studio where Simon Maxwell assembled his rough cut of the footage, before sending it to Nothing Records for approval (at which point it was scrapped). It was shot in [[1995/02/11_Dallas,_TX|Dallas, TX]] and [[1995/02/13_Omaha,_NE|Omaha, NE]] in February and was the same source footage used for the aforementioned "Hurt", "Eraser" , and "Wish" videos.
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