ohdannyboyc

After seeing Movealong’s excellent fan edits of the original Star Wars & Empire (painstakingly editing the film footage to sync with the audio of the original LPs), has anyone thought of doing the same for the Indy films? (I’m afraid the technical ability is a little beyond me)

Like the Star wars LPs, I owned, and played and practically wore out my records of Raiders & IJ&ToD. This being the days before videos, they were the only way of reliving the film- I used to play them non stop while reading the storybooks. They’ll forever be imprinted in the memory!

The Raiders is the odd one out in that it hasn’t got any narration- simply a potted version of the dialogue, score and special effects, allowing the imagination to really go to town. Excellently produced, I believe it won a Grammy for best spoken word record.

Indy & ToD Lp did have narration (Chuck Riley, being the same narrator as Return of the Jedi), while being cheesy and sounding VERY American (to a young lad growing up in the UK), it was nevertheless great fun. I still own all of them, and could never bear to get rid of them.

links to Movealong’s excellent Star wars recreations on this forum are below. Check them out!

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/MoveAlongs-The-Story-of-Star-Wars–Complete/topic/4962/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/MoveAlongs-The-Story-of-TESB-The-Adventures-of-Luke-Skywalker–Complete/topic/6953/

well, along with everyone else, I can only add my congratulations for this fine and perfectly executed project- i am in totally in awe!

i am a newbie to this forum and kind of stumbled across it. like many of you, I grew up with the records of SOSW and SOETB and knew them word for word- in the case of Star Wars, it was the only way I knew the film (along with Storybooks etc) as I was too young when the movie was released, and had to wait until '82 when it was premiered on TV (complete with adverts every 20 mins!). 

A couple of weeks ago, I dug the LPs out (I couldn't ever bear to part with them) and I was going to transfer them onto CD and clean them up, but I thought I might just check the web first to see if anyone had already done it and save me the work. Of course they had, after finding several audio versions, it was then that, ahem, to paraphrase, "that's how I came to be in your service, if you take my meaning"...

Having the LPs, (this being before the days of video) I was the envy of all my school mates; but if only we could have dreamt of something like this! Great touch with adding the read along book on ESB- being an avid collector from an early age, I had those too, and still have the books (although the tapes have long gone). Things have come full circle; like someone else on this forum, my little 3 year old girl is getting into SW (again, because of the Princess), and we sat and read along with my original book to the audio on Movealong's DVD! Fantastic! 

can't wait for SOROTJ- I never got hold of it over here in the UK, but recently found the audio on the web and had a listen. like other's have said, the narration is more than a bit cheesy and aimed at a yunger audience, so definitely not in the same class of Roscoe or Malachi, but it's great fun all the same.

one last point- anyone looking to do the same for the Raiders and Indy Temple of Doom story LPs? again, I grew up with these and they'll be indelibly imprinted forever in the memory! The Raiders LP was a little different as it had no narration, and it even won a Grammy for best Spoken word record at the time. Interestingly, the Indy LP sounds like it has the same narrator as ROTJ (Chuck Riley). would love to hear if anything like this is planned

 DC 

well, along with everyone else, I can only add my congratulations for this fine and perfectly executed project- i am in totally in awe!

i am a newbie to this forum and kind of stumbled across it. like many of you, I grew up with the records of SOSW and SOETB and knew them word for word- in the case of Star Wars, it was the only way I knew the film (along with Storybooks etc) as I was too young when the movie was released, and had to wait until '82 when it was premiered on TV (complete with adverts every 20 mins!). 

A couple of weeks ago, I dug the LPs out (I couldn't ever bear to part with them) and I was going to transfer them onto CD and clean them up, but I thought I might just check the web first to see if anyone had already done it and save me the work. Of course they had, and, ahem, to paraphrase, "that's how I came to be in your service, if you take my meaning"...

Having the LPs, and before the days of video, I was the envy of all my school mates; but if only we could have dreamt of something like this! Great touch with adding the read along book on ESB- being an avid collector from an early age, I had those too, and still have the books (although the tapes have long gone). Things have come full circle; like someone else on this forum, my little 3 year old girl is getting into SW (again, because of the Princess), and we sat and read along with my original book and the audio on the DVD! Fantastic! 

can't wait for SOROTJ- I never got hold of it over here in the UK, but have recently DL the audio and had a listen. the narration is a but cheesy and not in the same class of Roscoe or Malachi, but great fun all the same.

one last point- anyone looking to do the same for the Raiders and Indy Temple of Doom story LPs? again, I grew up with these and they'll be indelibly imprinted in the memory! The Raiders LP was a little different as it had no narration, and it even won a Grammy for best Spoken word record at the time. Interestingly, the Indy LP sounds like it has the same narrator as ROTJ (Chuck Riley). would love to hear if anything like this is planned

 DC