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Paul Adsett
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posted January 10, 2015 12:44 PM
Just got our tickets to a special movie event in March. Restored film clips of all the great 20th Century Fox Rodgers and Hammerstein movies, such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific, will be shown on a big CinemaScope screen at the Bob Carr theater in Orlando, while the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra performs the film score live! So they will be showing the original vocals of Gordon MacCrea, Shirley Jones, Deborah Kerr, Mitzi Gaynor, while somehow deleting the original background music and replacing it with live orchestra. I don't know how they do this technically, and how the live Orchestra can get split second synch to the film vocals, but it all sounds pretty amazing. Can't wait! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Incidentally, the newly released Blu Ray of the Todd-AO version of Oklahoma! is a revelation. In the previous 50th anniversary DVD, the Todd-AO version was a great disappointment, and the CinemaScope version looked far superior. Not so on the new Blu ray, where the Todd-AO version is now stunningly rendered, revealing a whole new level of clarity and detail not even seen in the new blu ray CinemaScope version. Very highly recommended!
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Paul Adsett
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posted January 10, 2015 02:21 PM
They did one of these about 3 years ago Andrew, on that occasion the film clips were from Citizen Kane, Ben Hur, Gone With The Wind, The Wizard Of Oz, Psycho, and a few others. It was incredible, almost like sitting in on a real movie studio scoring session.
I have all the R&H super 8 digests, and I still remember the thrill of watching these when they were first issued. I really enjoyed them until they faded! ![[Frown]](frown.gif) . Even so, I have redubbed them in stereo to improve things.
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Paul Adsett
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posted January 11, 2015 10:06 AM
Brian, the difference betwen the new Blu Ray of the Todd A0 and the old DVD vesrion of the Todd-AO is literally like night and day. Apparently the new blu ray was scanned at 8K from the original Fox 65mm negatives, and boy does it show. It is interesting to compare the CinemaScope and Todd A0 version, because even though some of the scenes were filmed with side-by-side cameras, most were not, and you can see the difference in the positioning of the actors and their facial expressions. You can now appreciate that Mike Todd's 'bug-eye' lens really did this film justice.
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posted March 07, 2015 07:39 PM
Well we went to see Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies this afternoon. It was a sold out matinee performance, and tonight's show is also sold out. It was a wonderful experience, with Andrew Lane conducting the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in perfect sync to the projected films on the big screen. The packed audience was very appreciative, listening to the glorious voices of Gordan McCrea and Shirly Jones resonating through the auditorium, and seeing once more how truly wonderful and spectacular these movies really were, and still are. Many older people around me were in tears during the performance, not only genuinely moved by the music and singing but no doubt also remeniscing on where they were, and who they were with, when they saw these magnificent Twentieth Century Fox films for the first time in the 1950's.
It was a memorable experience indeed, one which I will treasure, and I sincerely thank the Orlando Philharmonic, but also sad because everyone realized that films like this will never be made again. All the more reason to watch them and treasure them.
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