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Post #654361

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TServo2049
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Info: Re-mixed audio tracks on video releases
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Date created
13-Aug-2013, 10:40 AM

crissrudd4554 said:

In Willy Wonka when Charlie and Grandpa sing the Godlen Ticket song the mother interupts at the end. I have the 1994 VHS and she says 'Wait! Stop!'. All versions I've seen from the 1996 VHS onward she just says 'Stop!'.

The 1996 restoration was when the film's soundtrack was remixed to stereo/5.1 - before then, the film was only ever in mono. The 1994 VHS was the last one to have the original mono mix.

The 1991 laserdisc (with the original poster art) has the mono mix in digital PCM.

It really confuses me when older movies have alterations in their mono tracks. It happened with The Wizard of Oz, it happened with Frankenstein, it happened with Dracula. I think it's because due to the age of these films, the mono tracks are now restorations/reassemblies, not just direct transfers of an original mono element.