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Dec 27, 2014 - 2:58 PM
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litefoot
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I've recently been reading up on the expanded Bond CD releases from 2003 and noticed something curious about one particular film (no, not Moonraker!).
Some of you may remember the thread in which Lukas announced the CDs, in November 2002 (which you can see at http://goo.gl/PTzWpn). He states:
"No extra masters were available for Dr. No, From Russia With Love..."
Chris Neel - then of MGM Music - confirmed this in a later thread in February 2003 (http://goo.gl/eN49Yq) by saying:
"There are no surviving master tapes for Dr. No or FRWL other than the soundtrack LP masters."
A couple of months later, Lukas published a two-part article in FSM about his work on the expanded CDs. (These are free and viewable online at http://goo.gl/2yGAEI and http://goo.gl/Bbhyv6 . I recommend everyone have a look sometime, they're very interesting). In the June 2003 issue, Lukas says:
"Master tapes to the first three films—Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger—are not at EMI’s Abbey Road vaults in London, where most of the expanded Bond material was kept. (The four additional cuts on the Goldfinger CD come from the British LP master.) I would presume they are lost."
So my question is... any reason Lukas and Chris didn't refer to Goldfinger as lost in the earlier FSM posts? I just thought it odd that Goldfinger was mentioned as lost only in the FSM article. Was its status as 'lost' only confirmed later on, when Lukas wrote his FSM article? I'm just intrigued about the discrepancy. 
Is Goldfinger definitely 'lost'? For now, anyway... never say never...
Thanks!
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I honestly don't recall.
United Artists in L.A. threw out their music masters in the early 1980s as a corporate cost-saving measure.
MGM Music in the 1990s was able to get back a lot of material that had been sent to United Artists Records at EMI. This was mostly album masters, but occasionally complete OST masters and multitracks that had been sent to the record company for production work or evaluation.
MGM Music had an inventory around that time (late 1990s) that was given to them from EMI's Abbey Road tape facility in London. This Abbey Road inventory had the music scoring masters for Thunderball through Spy Who Loved Me (though it was not clear to me if the Spy material was the album recording or the OST). Other titles, like the first three movie, Moonraker and AVTAK, were album masters only. We were able to transfer and use these assets for the expanded editions of Thunderball through Live and Let Die. We ran out of time and money to do Man With the Golden Gun.
I honestly don't remember where MGM had the complete masters for FYEO and Living Daylights. Chris Neel told me he had something on Octopussy but I don't remember if it was a stem or what.
For Thunderball, music for the end of the movie was not at Abbey Road, but rather the U.S. tape vaults. And there was still some stuff missing.
I don't know what music stems there might be at MGM (from the film vaults), I don't know what else might have turned up at EMI's U.S. or worldwide facilities. I don't know. And, frankly, the entire rights situation is so tangled with the older Bond titles, involving Eon, MGM, Sony and Universal Music, that I am not holding out hope.
Lukas
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