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Great to see Norris back in the projection booth!!!
I never left
He's still there, in fact.
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Great to see Norris back in the projection booth!!!
I never left
He's still there, in fact.
Must be.nice to not have to change reels.
What a silly. way to show pictures!
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Please, more Waxman, Skinner, Ward and the westerns and soaps of the 1950's.
Oh, Geez
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Just got mine yesterday. The sound is fabulous - no pops, clicks or other surface noise. There is still the problem of the main program just stopping. Jumping ahead to track 13 at least gives some closure, but with too much of a gap.
I've done what I speculated on a few days back, combining the OST with the re-recording for a complete (?) score:
OST tracks 1 & 2
RR track 4
OST tracks 3 - 5
RR track 6 and the opening 1:07 of track 7
OST track 6
RR tracks 8 & 9
OST tracks 7 & 8 then track 9 with the last 1:28 of RR track 12 at the end.
This makes a very satisfying listening experience.
Any thoughts?
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Just got mine yesterday. The sound is fabulous - no pops, clicks or other surface noise. There is still the problem of the main program just stopping.
I don't have the CD. Can you explain that a little more? Is it the surviving music as such, or a defect in your copy?
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What I mean about 'just stopping' is that track 9 "The Explosion" ends abruptly, with no resolution of any kind. The final track gives that resolution (in an abbreviated form), but there are several other tracks in the middle. In addition, there is quite a bit of silence at the end of track 9, so that just skipping the tracks in between still leaves a very noticeable gap.
BTW, I just checked, and the re-recording on Silva is still available at Amazon (although the physical CD is not cheap - $24). For those who don't mind the "lossy" MP3 format, that is also there for $9.49.
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Hello Folks
When you combined the tracks for the complete score (?) did you reverse engineer the rerecording so that it sounded the same as the original tracks?
CC
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I didn't bother to adjust the sonics because my hearing isn't acute enough to tell much difference, and I really only did it as a test of the program. Down the road I might want to do some more work, but for now I'm happy.
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What I mean about 'just stopping' is that track 9 "The Explosion" ends abruptly, with no resolution of any kind. The final track gives that resolution (in an abbreviated form), but there are several other tracks in the middle.
In James Whale's original cut of the film it was meant to end that way. Waxman had intended it to sound unfinished (as I've read before), as in the first cut there was no happy ending after the tower explosion. Both Henry and Elizabeth died in the explosion originally.. in fact if you watch the frames of the film that show the inside of the lab as it explodes, you can still see Henry (Colin Clive's double) against the wall.
I received my copy of this earlier this week and am exceedingly happy with it. I think the sound is fantastic considering what they had to work with. Some of the highs in the early parts of The Creation are a bit muffled compared to what I've heard in the past. I'm really impressed with how rich it sounds, and the bass comes through smooth and impactful - especially for The Tower Explosion.
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And yet, another film music reference found in unexpected places
The 1984 horror novel THE TOMB by F. Paul Wilson, (author of THE KEEP), contains a BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and FRANZ WAXMAN reference..
The hero of the story, repairman Jack, is trying to watch all the James Whale films when not fighting evil and righting wrongs.
"Earnest Thesiger as Dr. Praetorius - the greatest performance of his career- was lecturing his former student. The movie was only half over but it was time to go. He'd pick up where he left off before bedtime. Too bad. He loved this movie. Especially the score - Franz Waxman's best ever. Who'd have thought that later on in his career, the creator of such a majestic, stirring piece would wind up doing the incidental music for turkeys like Return To Peyton Place. Some people never got the recognition they deserved."
F. Paul Wilson: The Tomb. Berkley Publishing Group. New York, NY. 1984
Chapt.16. pp.57
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Any chance of more Universal Monster scores being released?
That would depend on whether any elements turned up for those films, though comments earlier in this thread suggest that not much, if any elements survive for the Universal Horror films of the 30’s and 40’s.
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