Finally found this segment from HOLLYWOOD BACKSTAGE which I remember seeing as a kid on TV! Cool 1960's TV Series. I have been searching for this Forever!!!
Now you can all enjoy it!!!! Totally cool! A Rare Film Music Treasure finally rediscovered. Enjoy!
Wow! The real thing. Thanks Zooba. I remember Hollywood Backstage as a local show (on channel 9?) but missed this one. National shows wouldn't cover things like this but local shows would and yet local programming seldom held onto their footage. But I DO remember the Mirisch company pushing this score and film majorly. Why? Julie Andrews just came off the most profitable film in history THE SOUND OF MUSIC which followed MARY POPPINS, the top box office film of the previous year. Add to that Elmer was the John Williams at that time. In the previous few years he had 8 score albums (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, THE CARPETBAGGERS, BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL, THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL, THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER, THE SILENCERS, CAST A GIANT SHADOW, THE RETURN OF THE SEVEN) more than any other Hollywood composer and this was just when those albums just became common. It won the Golden Globe and got both song and score Oscar nominations.
Interesting on several levels. Bernstein's voice still hasn't lost its New York edge to the more cultured (quasi-British) accent of later years. There's no mention at all of director George Roy Hill. The film is represented as entirely a producer's product. And note the sunglasses on several musicians -- responding to harsh lighting in the recording studio?
Thank you for posting. What happened to the tapes!!!!
It would really be interesting to know when, where, and by whom the decision was made to trash the tapes--"Hawaii!? Who needs this crap?"--if that's indeed what happened. The story of finding what remains of the original recordings is given here:
There's no mention at all of director George Roy Hill. The film is represented as entirely a producer's product.
Some things never change.
The films Hill made before Hawaii were The World of Henry Orient, Toys in the Attic and Period of Adjustment. If it had been made after his subsequent hits like The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or Thoroughly Modern Millie he would have been mentioned.
There's no mention at all of director George Roy Hill. The film is represented as entirely a producer's product.
Some things never change.
The films Hill made before Hawaii were The World of Henry Orient, Toys in the Attic and Period of Adjustment. If it had been made after his subsequent hits like The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or Thoroughly Modern Millie he would have been mentioned.
