If you want to rekindle your warm and fuzzy Lucas the Preservations feelings here's a blurb:
A wax cylinder was discovered during an inventory at the Edison National Historic site in 1960 that was labelled 'Dickson Volin." Because the image was kept at th Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and the soundtrack was at the Edison National Historic Site in New Jersey, it took a very long time to put the two back together. The preservation effor twas produced by Rick Schmidlin, who worked with Jerry Fabris of the Edison National Historic Site and Walter Murch of Skywalker Sound. First, a crack in the wax cylinder had to be repaired. Then laser technology was used to lift the sound which had to be resynchornized to the image as the thump caused by the repaired crack was edited out. The restul was teh music of Dickson's violin as he played an air from Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" with the sound of the dancing men's feet on the wooden platform, in perfect sync. The total cost of preservation was over 300,00 U.S. dollars, which was paid for by Skywalker Sound, a George Lucas company. The film will not be commercially available. At the time of this writing, it was rumored that Lucas might use it as a logo for his company.
Anyone know what became of this?