Scofield version - SW theater recording (1977) (Released) — Page 5

If someone could PM me the links to this if and whenever it gets reuploaded I would be really grateful. Waiting patiently until then...

I've been away for a while, was hoping I'd come back and someone would have posted a version of this synced up to GOUT/DeEd by now.  If there is one somewhere I don't know about, a PM would be appreciated :)

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

I still have it, of course.  But as everyone knows, I don't distribute my work...

 Is yours just the raw .wav files, though, or do you have one that's GOUT-synced?

this is a dream come true! how do i get this?

recordhead said:

this is a dream come true! how do i get this?

Good news, it was just recently reposted to usenet. You can PM me if you need more details.

This post brings back some memories from a long, long time ago. Ive got a cassette tape of myself and my best friend acting out the entire movie, special effects and all, from 1978/79ish! He was all of the Empire characters and I was relegated to being the rebels, Leia included. 😃 But Im fairly certain, somewhere in the depths of my garage is a cassette of a live theatre recording I took many years ago.

Just to give you a heads up: I just uploaded a GOUT-sync’d version of this recording to that website of the organ.

There are some silent patches in this version I’ve made and they exist for the following reasons:

• The tape began recording at 30 seconds into the film
• As the film was running, the tape had to be turned over, so, at the 01:00:53 mark, silence comes-up. This lasts for 16 seconds.
• The release print that ran the film at that screening had missing frames, so I left silent patches in those areas. They occurred at…
  • The head-end of the first shot of Reel 3 (where Luke, Ben and the droids are at the sandcrawler’s torched remains): the start of the trumpet solo from the music is missing. Scofield A (00:38:24), GOUT (00:38:44)
  • The head-end of the first shot of Reel 6: The announcement’s line,”… to your stations” is heard instead of “all pilots to your stations.” Scofield B (00:17:49), GOUT (01:40:08)

I purposely didn’t patch-up those silent areas. I know that members, here, will be studying the sound-mix of this version and I didn’t want to distort the content of this recording by using sound from other home video editions or even use bits from the recording to cover the silent patches up.

Besides, I’d be a real rat if I took away the pleasure of having y’all work on replacing the missing audio.

Just so that you won’t be twiddling your thumbs in-between silent breaks, I’ve made a no-frills .srt file that displays captions and a countdown clock

If there is no sound and no message, then the sound will return in no more than two seconds. This would be for the frames missing from the release print and other audible interruptions from the recording that I left in.

In all, there are 4 silent patches in my audio file.

The challenge was in the sync’ing. The recording on the 2 audio files had different speeds changing every 1 to 3 minutes. In other words: if I sync’d a part of the Scofield file to the GOUT, it would stay in sync for about 1 to 3 minutes, then the file would drift out of sync—sometimes the audio would be faster in duration or slower. In the end, I had to create multiple copies of the same audio file with different durations for each file, all in the same pitch as the original file. I had to select one Scofield audio file, sync it to the GOUT, find the point in the audio where it drifts out of sync and trim it, select another Scofield file of a different duration, sync’d that to another part of the GOUT, find the point of drifting and trim it, join that with the other portion of the file with the different duration, select another Scofield file, and so on. The tedious part is searching for the right duration of the file to fit the pieces of the GOUT.

Other than up-converting the 44.1k sampling rate on the original recording to a sampling rate of 48K (for adding this to a Blu Ray), and the said time-stretching/shrinking of that same audio file, no EQing has been applied to my audio file.

Sremrofsnart said:
The Scofield Audio Recording is an priceless Jewel in my Collection and i already tried to sync it up with the Treadwell Cam Video source, its so cool to hear the laughter and mumbling of the Audience. One thing i wonder is if “ProtocolDroid” ever released the Scofield Audio Recording of Empire Strikes Back? I’m curious bc he said that his mother also did an recording there.

I don’t think ‘Protocol Droid’ released that recording. He had been absent from this forum for almost a decade and as of this past summer, he had returned. According to his profile, he checked-in to this forum, yesterday.

alexp120 said:

Sremrofsnart said:
The Scofield Audio Recording is an priceless Jewel in my Collection and i already tried to sync it up with the Treadwell Cam Video source, its so cool to hear the laughter and mumbling of the Audience. One thing i wonder is if “ProtocolDroid” ever released the Scofield Audio Recording of Empire Strikes Back? I’m curious bc he said that his mother also did an recording there.

I don’t think ‘Protocol Droid’ released that recording. He had been absent from this forum for almost a decade and as of this past summer, he had returned. According to his profile, he checked-in to this forum, yesterday.

Maybe someone here who knows “ProtocolDroid” well enough…would it be possible to ask him if he wants to release the Scofield ESB Cam Audio as well? I already tried to contact him through pm but he hasn’t responded yet.

I genuinely hope that the ESB Tape still exists, such recordings are movie history!!!

Sremrofsnart said:

I genuinely hope that the ESB Tape still exists, such recordings are movie history!!!

Not from ‘Protocol Droid’, but there is a feature-length audio recording of the limited-edition screening from ESB that was taken during the 1st four weeks of the film’s release. The audio features alternate lines and sound-FX.

You can read the details, here.
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Hopefully-the-last-70mm-vs-35mm-ESB-audio-differences-thread/id/14128/page/1

You can download the individual audio files of that screening from the uploader’s blog:
http://wideanglecloseup.com/starwarsaudio.html

Here’s a fan-made video-sample of that recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmbl8tLOfFE

alexp120 said:

Sremrofsnart said:

I genuinely hope that the ESB Tape still exists, such recordings are movie history!!!

Not from ‘Protocol Droid’, but there is a feature-length audio recording of the limited-edition screening from ESB that was taken during the 1st four weeks of the film’s release. The audio features alternate lines and sound-FX.

You can read the details, here.
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Hopefully-the-last-70mm-vs-35mm-ESB-audio-differences-thread/id/14128/page/1

You can download the individual audio files of that screening from the uploader’s blog:
http://wideanglecloseup.com/starwarsaudio.html

Here’s a fan-made video-sample of that recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmbl8tLOfFE

Thank’s so much for the links, I already had the files but it is still nice to read how many differences the as well as the cuts that were made in later versions of the Audio.

The one thing I want is to get an Audio Recording of ESB and ROTJ with many Audience Reactions throughout the movies. I love that feeling of the thought that you would actually sit in the theater with all the fans from back in the day.

I would love a copy if anybody stumbles upon this blog, I’ve been preserving odd bits of media for years now and find this sort of history fascinating. Hoping to hear from somebody someday 😃

Same here. Does anyone have the original, full length version of the Scofield recording and before it was synched or resampled to 48Hz or otherwise meddled with?