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How long is the gap between sides? And how does it start, does the recording start before the drumroll or does it begin abruptly after the movie has already started? Here's an idea I just had while lying in bed this morning and inspired by Davnes' post:
1: if the movie starts before the recording, go ahead and leave silence until the recording starts, abruptly kicking in with the sound. Otherwise just start at the Fox fanfare as normal, using a quick fade-in if the crowd noise starts too abruptly (you could leave extra seconds or minutes of crowd noise beforehand, but then it wouldn't sync up with anything that didn't also have those seconds or minutes of blank at the beginning.)
2: side 1 plays raw, unless it has to be tweaked in order to keep sync. And even then, a little bit of drift might be acceptable, but certainly wouldn't want too much.
3: at the end of side 1, do a quick fade out to a very very quiet background of the same audio track as what's depicted on the tape (very quiet). Or you could just leave it dead silent, but I was thinking something like when you watch a commentary track on DVD and they shut up for a minute, you can still sort of hear what's going on in the background.
4a: (optional, depending on time available) Narrator's voice saying something like "flip cassette over and begin playing side B now."
4b: sound effects of tape being flipped over and restarted. (background soundtrack could go silent when you "press play," until the recorded audio kicks back in.)
5: side 2 begins abruptly, no fade-in.
6: fade out right at the end if the tape goes on beyond the end of the movie. Otherwise let it stop abruptly if the tape cuts off before the credits are over. Could add sound effects here of an LP hitting its run-out groove until the end, if you didn't care about authenticity.
