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1977 70mm soundtrack recording (Released) — Page 3

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There's another downside to the mono mix: it's mono.
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Having heard it in it's entirety recently, I actually like the mono mix! It might even be what the Academy voters were listening to in 1978. And mono movies don't sound bad at all with the right equipment. I don't know about other home theater amps, but Yahama has a "five channel stereo" mode that can wrap a mono track around your head without any fake stereo effects.

And morgands1, let me add to the chorus of thanks for sharing that recording with us!
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Where were you in '77?

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I'm very fond of the mono sound mix myself (duh!), having listened to the 'Story of' album countless times back in the day. My personal opinion is that all three sound mixes are "original" because they were all featured during the original theatrical run. But if you want to get technical, only the stereo prints (both 70mm and 35mm) were heard on opening day; the mono mix went into circulation the next month. So I don't think it's incorrect to consider only those to be original. I think it's really which version you remember best.

By the way, BrianM's 70mm recording has been posted to our favorite newsgroup.

Originally posted by: caligulathegod
Really neat from an historical perspective. Kind of a shame someone had to read the opening crawl.

I got a kick out of that myself. If you listen carefully, he is reading the crawl exactly as it is appearing on the screen and he pauses at the line breaks. The pauses match the line breaks in the pre-episode IV crawl. I thought that was great.

The Starkiller's Guide to the Mono Sound Mix

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Just a heads-up:

I’ve GOUT-sync’d morgands1’s InTheater 70mm stereo audio recording and released in the website of the human organ.

Unfortunately, the print that was shown during that screening had missing frames, so audio from the GOUT would be missing. For those instances on my .wav file, I put silent patches on them.

In between the scenes where the Falcon escapes from the Death Star and the TIE fighter attack, there are 4 unintentional edits on them. Since the GOUT audio that is missing on each edit amounts to under 2 seconds, I’ve managed to leave audio for these sequences untouched. This point in the audio stream is like a demonstration on how magnetic tracks sound when they are rejoined together. Depending on the skills of the projectionist, the patched film slices can leave no “pop” sounds on the edits, unlike would you would hear on the optical tracks from a 16mm or 35mm film print. This was the case, here.

Here is one other demo of a good patch-up job on a mag track. This one is from the screening of the limited-release cut of TESB, also captured by morgands1. It’s the Wampa sequence.
http://www.wideanglecloseup.com/Wampa_comparison.mp3
• 0:00 - 1:53 - In-Theater recording. Edit occurs at the 0:37 mark
• 1:55 - 3:57 - Same scene with the missing audio occurring between the 2:33 and 2:39 mark. Source: 1985 Beta Hifi, P&S, Dolby Surround videotape.
• 4:00 – end - The In-Theater recording and the videotape audio sync’d together—In-Theater audio in right channel, ‘85 videotape audio in left. Missing audio revealed in the left channel at the 4:38 mark.

I’ve also GOUT-sync’d L.Meyer’s DC InTheater audio recording (that was submitted here by BrianM) and released that on the said website.

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I wonder how many other vintage theater recordings might exist for other movies? I’ve seen snippets of Halloween on youtube with a 1978 audience going nuts.
If a recording of The Shining with the missing ending turned up, I’d be over the moon!

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alexp120, first of all thank you for the GOUT-sync’d versions of morgands1 and Scofield’s recordings you posted some time ago. Since you have released two more tracks, I want to ask: are you planning to release more projects? I have muxed your previous releases to my custom Despecialized mkvs, but I prefer to wait until you have finished all your projects before I add more tracks.

Thanks again!

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@ GZK8000:
My thanks to you for your open praise. Assuming that you have already checked-out my 8 other audio-sync projects, both Star Wars and non-Star Wars, that are on the same place that you got the 2 that you have (just search for them under my username on that site), I’m all Star-Wars-OT’d out.

Unfortunately, I didn’t have the idea at the time to sneak-in a tape recorder into a theatre and make these recordings. So, my thanks to the members for not only having the b*@&# to do that, but also in saving them, and for making them available, here, and on the website of the organ.

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I’ve seen snippets of Halloween on youtube with a 1978 audience going nuts.

I would love to have the recording to that in its entirety. I haven’t seen the film in a long time because I’ve worn out my enjoyment over it. Having that InTheater audio sync’d to the movie would give me a good excuse to revisit it.

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I’m hoping that these uploads will inspire you, all, to look through your attics or any other hidden cache for any other audio In-theater screenings of other films that you can upload. If you want someone to sync them to the video for you, PM me.
If you own such recordings and you want me to sync them, I have no problem with your being the uploader/presenter. All I ask is that you credit me as the sync’er.

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May I ask: what exactly does “released in the website of the human organ” refer to? Sounds pretty nasty.

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It refers to the website MySpleen, a private torrent tracker that hosts a large selection of Star Wars fan preservations and edits. Due to status in the legal gray area, it’s poor form on this forum to discuss MySpleen openly, so sometimes you’ll see euphemisms like this.

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