"They hadn't really performed live together and it took me a minute to figure out how to run two cameras simultaneously by myself. We did Black maybe nine times which is why Norah faux collapses at the end of the take. Season's Trees was second and we had one we liked after maybe 3 takes.

"There's an intimacy and life within the clips that is sometimes difficult to capture with a crew of 100, lip-syncing, wind machines, and everything else I've certainly indulged in. What you see and hear is basically all there was - three very talented musicians playing together in a room."

And its the latest output, following the animated video for the Jack White-vocalled Two Against One by Milk and animator Anthony Scheppard, of an increasingly multi-faceted project for the album inspired by classic Italian film music. Chris Milk, Danger Mouse and producers Anthony Bregman (Eternal Sunshine) and Megan Ellison (True Grit), are currently developing Rome into a feature.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=WubFQrd-meo

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