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Mr. Zooba Sir.. you are awesome!
Thanks for posting this wonderful look behind the scenes with Jerry. It would have been great with a lesser composer, but with Jerry... Awesome!
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Incredible footage!
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Dec 31, 2011 - 7:10 AM
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Goldsmith must have been around 42 or 43 years old at that point.
So fun to see him smiling and saying "That's good, That's good!"
He looked in great shape and like he was really happy. Was that when he had just met Carol?
1971 or 1972.
Love it when he says "That's what I want!"
Such a treasure of footage.
Yes, indeed, invaluable footage which should have been more easily accessible before its deposit onto YouTube.
Glad it's posted!
Attempting to sort this bit of Goldsmith chronology, I'm guessing THE MEPHISTO WALTZ recording sessions took place sometime during the winter of '70/'71.
Observing recording date data from soundtrack CDs and comparing such with films' release dates at IMDB, it appears that, on the average, recording sessions for films commence about 3 months prior to their premieres.
This is not an etched-in-stone rule, since the distribution of some films can be postponed for any number of reasons and in other cases (like ST:TMP) the final recordings were completed in a mere week or so before the premiere!
However, knowing that Jerry Goldsmith completed recording for RIO LOBO in October of 1970, it seems THE MEPHISTO WALTZ sessions could have been anytime within November or December of 1970 or in January of 1971. [THE MEPHISTO WALTZ premiered in April of 1971]
It's also fascinating to learn from this documentary how the final mix-down to a single track of dialogue, music, and sound effects in itself took at least 2 weeks (perhaps that was in February of '71?).
Anyway, it's likely that Goldsmith's work on MEPHISTO was already completed and in the can by his 42nd birthday in Feb '71.
Goldsmith may have immediately afterwards done the TV movie A STEP OUT OF LINE around this time (A STEP OUT OF LINE was broadcast Feb 26, 1971).
Another interesting tidbit: when THE MEPHISTO WALTZ was first shown on April 9th, 1971, that day Goldsmith was back at Fox studios recording his music for ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES! 
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I wish there were more of this kind of stuff. Fascinating.
Cheers
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Great stuff. In my opinion THE MEPHISTO WALTZ comes at THE peak of the peak period of innovative Goldsmith scoring (which for me is from roughly 1967 to 1978, with the Everest of the Himalayas round about '70-'71.... MEPHISTO, A STEP OUT OF LINE, ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES... such an amazing run).
The video tended to support what I always thought, that Jerry Goldsmith poured all his intellect and stamina into every little detail of the scores he was doing back then. He also seemed to be much more articulate when speaking in those days. In later years my impression is that he kind of got comfortable, found peace of mind, and relaxed instead of sweating away and torturing himself about how to get it right. Which is understandable, but from my own selfish point of view a pity.
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Nowadays the sound effects are so much better - read: realistic - that music just isn't that necessary, other than to propel action or accentuate scares.
LOL!
So THAT'S what led to the decline of film music.
The sound effects have just gotten too good!
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I like the part at about 16:00 into it, where the music seems to depict a showdown between the shark from "Jaws" and the murderous "mother" from "Psycho."
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