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CarterStarkiller
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Info: The Disney/Fox acquisition....
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28-Aug-2018, 11:11 PM

poita said:

This is from my 35mm print of Empire.

As for the Fox Fanfare… the fanfare was extended when CinemaScope was launched in the 1950s. It hadn’t been used for a while… but George Lucas requested it be brought back for the release of Star Wars.

The big note you hear when the enormous STAR WARS logo smashes onto the screen is in the same key, B-flat major, and was designed to come in off the back of the Fox fanfare.

So yeah, it is very attached to the Star Wars franchise.

I’m a huge music nut (especially when it is John Williams) but I didn’t know this, even though it makes total sense. So cool!