Here’s a couple from Empire for you…It’s restoring music but also restoring scene orders as per the script. Right Footage order to the Music
SPACE SLUG ESCAPE
https://vimeo.com/138282638
The scenes were put back in the order they are in the script. The music flows better with the scenes I believe this was how the music was scored to the footage. A missing shot comes at the point when Leia says “The Cave is collapsing”
BETRAYAL AT BESPIN
https://vimeo.com/113088613
This is quite long winded but it needs to be to show the scene where Luke arrives in Bespin orbit and put the shot back in the location it was meant to be in as per all versions of the script and for which also the scenes were in this order when John Williams scored the music to the footage as you can tell by the placement of cues heard in the soundtrack. I had to do an alternative music edit as a cut away to put the scene and the music back as it was originally composed and intended.
Oh Yeah and BTW the special edition shots of the Falcon Coming in to Bespin PLatform were always planned…(or something similar) But that does not mean there was anything on the screen when John Williams scored it perhaps no place cards or animatics…so just something to take note of there. The script omits “No one to meet us?” and the shot of the platform door. This is replaced by a shot of Lando and his aides walking through cloud city seen in the theatrical trailer (1) so it might be worth seeing if all those add up to be spot on. But trust me that the shot of Lando with his aides will be exactly the same length probably as the shot of the door that is a hunch based on previous instances like this. Dead Painting vs actual film footage… I seen this alternate swap before in Empire.
I think your music cue is correct on this for Cloud city arrival. So basically there was no place card for it on screen at the time of scoring for any fly through… It was literally wiped out 😃 Try the swap shot though to see if there is any micro differences of Lando vs the doors.
Ok Had a Eureka moment and it’s to do with Trailer 1 of The Empire Strikes Back…
The Probe Droid / Imperial Fleet Cue, I noticed quite a long time a go that the flouish to do with the explosion where the Probe droid self destructs is coming in Early and also drowns out the sound of Han’s Blaster. Now correct me if I am wrong but this was scored by John WIlliams in February 1980 soon before the films release meaning that…The sound effects track was most likely finished when this part had music added.
If you check the trailer 1 again you will notice a short shot of the probe droid turning it’s head in close up. This might be meant to sit in that position within the footage. and when the music is added to the film the flourish should happen exactly on (or After) the explosion without drowing out Han’s Blaster so that both the music and sound effects tracks are working in unison.
I don’t believe that the music is the wrong speed though for the Probe droid… It’s possible that there is an intended break in the music before the music kicks in relating to the probe droid. Basically Back track from the explosion (or the Fleet cue) inserting the close up shot of probe droid from the trailer. Definitley have a very strong hunch about this. The IMperial Fleet cue seems 100% correct to me but what come before I do not think is correct.
The Guarenteed Golden rule for Empire is that if there is music cut you can be 99% sure some footage was cut also… But there are exceptions.
Don’t forget the Wampa deleted scene also!
I did the probe droid with the missing scene for you… I think it now lines up better with the footage so safe to assume when John Williams scored it that shot was in the sequence. It was throwing the music out and how it was meant to synch up by that whole second of time.
PROBE DROID
https://vimeo.com/156984006
Revised version