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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Happy 50th Anniversary, Night of Dark Shadows
« on: April 30, 2024, 11:00:20 PM »
Revisiting and tying together the differences with certain sounds between the VHS/Laser version of the film versus the DVD/Blu-Ray and every streaming version:
And another thing that points to removing the music cue from Scene 153 most probably having nothing to do with the differences with the sound of the tower door closing is that the same differences with the door closing that are heard with Scene 149 also happen at the beginning of Scene 169:
Who knows...
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Here we have the Laser version:
And here we have the Blu-ray to represent every other version:
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(ADMIN: Edited to replace VHS video with Laser video)
I hadn't played those two videos back-to-back until today and didn't notice that each sound of the door slamming shut is slightly different. I wonder if that's because the copy of the film used for the Blu-ray/DVD (and all the other versions) was remastered and the copy for the VHS/Laser wasn't? Presumably the sound is the actual sound of the real door slamming and not an effect that was added. But who knows? If it was added, perhaps when the music cue was removed for the 94 minute version a slightly different effect replaced the one originally used? Though the sound of the door slamming near the end of Scene 149 occurs a short while before Scene 153 comes up so one would think removing the music cue at the beginning of Scene 153 wouldn't affect the door's sound in Scene 149 at all. But again, who knows? It's just yet another interesting thing about the different versions...
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And another thing that points to removing the music cue from Scene 153 most probably having nothing to do with the differences with the sound of the tower door closing is that the same differences with the door closing that are heard with Scene 149 also happen at the beginning of Scene 169:
... each sound of the door slamming shut is slightly different. ...
This got me wondering about Scene 169, and sure enough:
Here we have the VHS version:
And here we have the Blu-ray to represent every other version:
Who knows...