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Jul 10, 2004 - 7:38 AM
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manderley
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You all know this I'm sure, but: When the Academy's song category was first developed in the '30s, film songs not only actually came from the films, but were sung on camera. Hard to believe now, but that was the POINT of the category! By the '50s, films like "High Noon" or "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" had title songs sung on the film's soundtrack, but not on camera in the body of the film. Eventually, (in the early '60s, perhaps?), with the release of many non-musical films, the studios, eager to capitalize on every aspect of the production, arranged for lyrics to be added to a key musical theme to make it into a real song for radio and record play even if it hadn't appeared in the film as a song. The studios were eager to get song nominations, but the Academy, seeing this new problem, decreed that a song must be heard, with lyrics, somewhere in the running time of the actual film, to receive a nomination. I know that "Born Free" was a key example of this. The studio pulled the release prints and replaced a remixed last reel so that the song could be sung at the end, and thus qualify for the song category. I feel certain this is why you suddenly hear Rozsa's "The Falcon and the Dove" as part of the ending and exit music of "El Cid" and I suspect this happened with "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" as well. Fox probably accidentally pulled the first release track out of the vaults instead of the "fixed" song-included version. (If Fox is going to continue releasing this non-song version on video, perhaps we should notify the Academy to withdraw the song's nomination from the official records as it no longer appears in the film!)
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Proably another in a long list of recent FOX Home Video foul ups! Don't get me started about FOX again.
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