If Williams DID intend that piece to open the film, then it could be added back in, right? It's a lovely piece of music (along with the love theme and its variations), but it would be neat to re-instate stuff.
Also, I was wrong on Langdon! It turns out my DVD box set of silent comedies has THREE of his. How soon do you need the DVD-R of the documentary clips? With another day or two, I can add an entire 2nd DVD-R just with silent film clips that reflect what's in the film.
Oh, and get this.... in my business/professional communications class, we have to do a proposal presentation. We were going to do one on getting Georgia State University a football team and stadium, but we realized we can't do a lot of research in two weeks. So, we're looking for another topic...
If I can convince the other people in my group to go ahead with it, I think it would be neat. It'll be easy for the group since I can just link up all the stuff you've found - and I'm doing a term paper on "Thief" anyways.