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Post #377172

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Vaderisnothayden
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Stuff about the original releases of ANH, with what a book says (early variations in ANH)
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11-Sep-2009, 2:38 PM
doubleofive said:
Vaderisnothayden said:
doubleofive said:

I think most of the problem is that mono had become and still is such a "bad" word that no one really wants to say "we worked harder on the mono version" (except The Beatles, as of yesterday).  Especially in the 70's when STEREO was such a huge deal.  And by the 80's when people were getting the tapes and LDs no one wanted mono, they wanted STEREO to go with their new sound systems and no one really wanted to go back to the original mono mix and replicate the changes they had made in them.  Then the 90's came and Lucas went back to some of the takes from the mono and put it in the "all new" mix, bringing them to light and legitimacy, but he did not go back and re-cut the entire movie to encompass all of the changes they had made back in 77.

Hold on, he incorporated some of the mono takes when in the 90s? I know the SE uses some mono stuff, but before that there's just the tractor beam line being put into the new mix in 85 but not in 93. I don't know if any of the other mono lines ("blast it Wedge" and the blast doors line) were included in the 85 mix, let alone the 93 mix.

Sorry, he incorporated some of the mono mix into the stereo mix in 85, but never in any version I saw.  The 97 SE has elements from the mono, but not ALL the elements from the mono.  Is it because those were the only good parts, or because he didn't want to really remix the entire soundtrack to incorporate all the changes?

I'm still going to go with the mono being the final draft, but too much work for him to take apart the mono or go back to the sources to recreate all of the changes in stereo/6 channel.

What was put into the 85 mix from the mono apart from tractor beam line?

I know there was some sound effect sweetening in the 85 mix but I don't know if that came from the mono. There was some mono bits in the THX mix even though not the tractor beam line as far as I know.

The mono's intended final draft status doesn't really count much for me. The SE was meant to be the final draft too. I think nobody in 77 or the years immediately after was told they were going to watch a final draft version of the film or a non-final draft version.

And if it was possible to put mono films into stereo video then it would have been possible to make a stereo video out of the mono mix if the final draft status was so important to them, which obviously it wasn't.