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I have seen clips but not the entire thing. All I remember of the clips were shots of Quincy Jones painstakingly composing the score for In Cold Blood, I think, and Jerry Goldsmith recording The Mephisto Waltz. I remember him thanking the orchestra, saying that they gave their blood--or something like that.
A Canadian production. Would like to see it, especially with Quincy, Schifrin, and Goldsmith in it. Don't recall if there were other composers.
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Excellent footage. Thanks for posting. Always loved the score since I saw the film in the theaters in my young teenage years. Anyone got the Quincy and Lalo segments?
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Excellent footage. Thanks for posting. Always loved the score since I saw the film in the theaters in my young teenage years. Anyone got the Quincy and Lalo segments?
I have the Quincy and Jerry segments, only on film... with no capacity to put on the Internet.
The complete 1972 film runs just under an hour and long ago was available on 16mm for free rental from Broadcast Music Inc. Each of five composers was given his own segment (the others being Earle Hagen and Hugo Friedhofer) focusing on a different aspect of film scoring. The Goldsmith section is the longest, the best, and nearly the last half of the picture.
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Good info. I always assumed the Mephisto Waltz footage was a promotional film for that movie. Its been awhile since I've seen it but I seem to remember there being some brief clips of Quincy Jones in the studio in the 60s/70s in that doc on him that came out a few years ago. Some of that might be from his segment in The Score
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Many moons ago, a young collector acquaintance of mine managed to request and receive a screening of the film when he was a student at the University he attended. He got hold of a videocam and "filmed the film" as it was being run. He sent me a VHS tape of what he had captured, and while the sharpness of image was not the best, it was better than nothing, and fascinating to see.
The Lalo Schifrin segment shows him researching sounds as he works on the film The Hellstrom Chronicle and he visits the home of the percussionist Emil Richards to try out some of the unusual instruments that Richards has assembled.
The Friedhofer segment, which opens the picture, is the shortest; just Hugo at home reminiscing about his early experiences.
As described above, Earle Hagen is shown working on an episode of Mod Squad; Quincy on In Cold Blood (I recall his phrase, "Chewing the Rug"); and of course Goldsmith doing The Mephisto Waltz.
As described above also, the lot of them must have contributed greatly to the tobacco industry : Earle smokes a pipe, Lalo smokes a pipe, "Q" lights up several cigarettes and JG has a ciggie on while he's conducting. Ah, the history of it!
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I've seen a photo of Barry conducting in the studio during the early/mid sixties. While Barry was not a smoker, the front line of the string section all had smokes dangling from their lips, just one of the smoker's benefits of playing the violin, as opposed to, say, a trombone.
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