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Ordered this immediately.
This was the first movie I recorded on reel-to-reel, just for the music. (The first of many, I may add. I still have a lot of those tapes, though the machine I could play them on has been up on the same shelf for years...)
Gorgeous score.
Now, if only someone could restore HELEN OF TROY....
Ah, pipe dreams...
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This sounds like a very worthy upgrade. Since I have the FSM though, I'll have to wait to pick it up until I can afford double dipping. I can't even swing The Buccaneer at this point and that seems like an even bigger step up from the previous version (which I never played because of the sound quality and sold to Joel's Classical Shop a year and a half ago before I left Houston). That said, when I'm no longer a student (two+ years from now...sheesh) and can afford to catch up on releases, this will be mine! It's a fantastic sequel score; every bit as good as Alfred Newman's original, which was a masterpiece. Hearing Waxman use Newman's themes is especially exciting. How often do we have examples of a famous Golden Age composer scoring the sequel to another famous Golden Age composer's work and prominently incorporating their thematic material? I have a hard time coming up with another example...
Yavar
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Jan 28, 2014 - 7:53 AM
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Joe Caps
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What a marvelous score and greatto have it reissued.
Mike Mattesino - the worst track for wow on the old fsm cd was Victory - how does it sound now? any less wow?
Waxmans score is, I think, more complex than often thought.
He used parts of the robe in Ingenious ways.
the Demtrius theme played during the opening credits, is actually the"I Am With You motif fromo the Robe, just extended,
Lucias theme is an inverted version of the love theme from The Robe.
BTW, I first saw The robe and Demetrius on double feature reissue in 1959
both were in stereo Technicolor prints.
When Caligula is killed at the end of Demetrius, the audience actually stood up and cheered and applauded.
Met Jay Robinson (Caligula) several times over the years through a friend of mine. What great stories he had to tell about the making of those films.
Several accounts mention that Demetrius did not start filming until weeks after the Robe was finished. Jay Robinson told a different story. He says he was filming scenes for both films at the same time,.
He said it was insane, because Fox had the flat camera crew for the Robe, the Scope crew, the Demetrius crew, and the Three Coins in the fountain crew, all at the same time!!!!
Anyway, Bruce, keep the golden age stuff coming.
BTW, I think both the new cover and the FSM cover, basically use the british poster art, which is the same as the American, but repainted for greater detail, and with a blue background instead of the white used in the U.S.
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Yeah, Joe, "Victory" was a bonus track on the FSM release because of the wow and has been improved sufficiently enough to now have it to the main program.
Mike
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Yeah, Joe, "Victory" was a bonus track on the FSM release because of the wow and has been improved sufficiently enough to now have it to the main program.
Mike
Having just listened to both versions back to back so I can respond, it's improved a lot more than sufficiently - all the tracks have - this is major work by Mr. Matessino. The :45 Victory track sounds amazing, actually.
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Yeah, Joe, "Victory" was a bonus track on the FSM release because of the wow and has been improved sufficiently enough to now have it to the main program.
Mike
Out of interest... do you use that "Capstan" software I've read a lot about, that's supposed to do wonders for wow problems on old recordings?
It's definitely one of those new-fangled programs and it does do wonders as long as the person doing it knows the ins and outs of it. Mike and Chris Malone both have become quite expert at it.
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It's definitely one of those new-fangled programs and it does do wonders as long as the person doing it knows the ins and outs of it. Mike and Chris Malone both have become quite expert at it.
I'm glad to hear this nifty software has become part of the toolset. I can definitely hear the difference it has made with the wow from the samples.
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Jan 28, 2014 - 7:01 PM
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manderley
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Ordered DEMETRIUS today (via Screen Archives), along with TO CATCH A THIEF and the Twilight Time Blu-ray of THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY, a really fine, elegant musical biography of pianist Eddy Duchin, as directed by George Sidney.
I'm looking forward to all of these---all of them favorites in one way or another---and particularly to hear DEMETRIUS. The sound samples of this are quite impressive, and it will likely replace the FSM in my listening files.
.....Hi..
Is it possible that a new improved version of Herrmann's Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is in the 'works'?
Paul.....
Paul's post is certainly something we all would look forward to and buy, but I would also ask.....
Bruce....
Is it possible that you could work on a new Friedhofer SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, so much of which was missing in the old FSM release? I was never quite clear whether the missing sections were truly missing or simply impossible to re-master with the technology of that time.
If much was lost due to wow and flutter, perhaps CAPSTAN could save this score, too.
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Ordered DEMETRIUS today (via Screen Archives), along with TO CATCH A THIEF and the Twilight Time Blu-ray of THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY, a really fine, elegant musical biography of pianist Eddy Duchin, as directed by George Sidney.
I'm looking forward to all of these---all of them favorites in one way or another---and particularly to hear DEMETRIUS. The sound samples of this are quite impressive, and it will likely replace the FSM in my listening files.
.....Hi..
Is it possible that a new improved version of Herrmann's Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is in the 'works'?
Paul.....
Paul's post is certainly something we all would look forward to and buy, but I would also ask.....
Bruce....
Is it possible that you could work on a new Friedhofer SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, so much of which was missing in the old FSM release? I was never quite clear whether the missing sections were truly missing or simply impossible to re-master with the technology of that time.
If much was lost due to wow and flutter, perhaps CAPSTAN could save this score, too.
We're looking at lots o' stuff.
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