Still waiting and waiting for the cd release of Alfred Newmans Diary of Anne Frank. Why - its one of Newmans greatest greatest and so much of the music in the film is so underdubbed, it can not be heard. Just bought the blu ray from Fox. the overture is incorredtly attached to the film the Exit music and intermission music are not there. I feel Fox owes me for that footage. However, there is an Italian language track. there the music is what a normal volume for a film should be. Many pieces I was hearing for the first time !!!
It already got released on CD in good sound a few years ago...just not expanded. LLL has still indicated (not too long ago) that it's still in the works but won't be coming this year. Obviously this title had more complications because of multiple licensors (the album tracks are no longer owned by Fox).
It seems like the only place you can get the Overture, the Act One exit music, the Entr'acte and final Exit Music all in one place is the old Fox laserdisc or the Tsunami CD. Why all that music is not on the new Blu-ray is just a giant mystery.
It seems like the only place you can get the Overture, the Act One exit music, the Entr'acte and final Exit Music all in one place is the old Fox laserdisc or the Tsunami CD. Why all that music is not on the new Blu-ray is just a giant mystery.
It's believed that the film's Intermission (along with the Act One exit music and Entr'Acte) has been MIA on the DVDs and Blu-ray because George Stevens Jr. thinks that his father never wanted an intermission in the film in the first place.
It seems like the only place you can get the Overture, the Act One exit music, the Entr'acte and final Exit Music all in one place is the old Fox laserdisc or the Tsunami CD. Why all that music is not on the new Blu-ray is just a giant mystery.
It's believed that the film's Intermission (along with the Act One exit music and Entr'Acte) has been MIA on the DVDs and Blu-ray because George Stevens Jr. thinks that his father never wanted an intermission in the film in the first place.
This footage should still be available to those who wish to experience the movie as it was originally intended. This maybe the same reason why home video versions of giant lack an intermission
I had forgotten about the George stevens jr. kaka. When bart Pierce at Fox was looking to put the uncut anne frank together, he found a letter from Georege Stevens asking fox to leave the intermission in the short film as he found it was too intense with no intermission.
Of all the scores and composers whose work has seen complete restorations on new recordings, Newman has been left out in the cold. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK is long overdue for a new, complete recording.
There is NO reason that Fox could not correctly attack the Overture to the film. The Overture should play and the last fifteen seconds appear over the Fox Logo. On the blu ray - The Overture appears, finishes. Then the fox logo appears with no music ( this is where the final part of the overture should be playing. Fox got it right on the laser. It is not like they didn't know.
I've always wondered why the source march "Erika" was included in the soundtrack recording. It's not by Newman (the composer is Herms Niel) and it is so intrusive and alien to the sentiments of the score proper. It certainly doesn't add anything to the listening experience! I always skip past it when listening to the recording.
Here's a link to an audio archive of the 1967 ABC production directed by Alex Segal and starring Man Von Sydow:
Typical of LP-era programming. The idea was to end side one with a bit of a climax and then begin side two with a kind of "curtain raiser." Wasn't ANASTASIA programmed in like fashion?
There is NO reason that Fox could not correctly attack the Overture to the film. The Overture should play and the last fifteen seconds appear over the Fox Logo. On the blu ray - The Overture appears, finishes. Then the fox logo appears with no music ( this is where the final part of the overture should be playing. Fox got it right on the laser. It is not like they didn't know.
I am right on with you on your comments about the overture and Fox logo.
I also wanted to say that on the TV prints I saw as a kid, the Fox logo had a horrible recording of the Fox fanfare (heavy on the bass drum), which I've never heard on any other Fox film. I think it was a new recording made somewhere in Europe during the musicians' strike.
