At Chelsea
Rialto Studios, our goal is to restore classic motion picture music
The Official Distributor for
Chelsea Rialto Restorations is Screen Archives is the last stop in any quest for motion picture soundtrack CD's.
Now Available in the Max Steiner series is DODGE CITY with THE
OKLAHOMA KID. CR Studios and Screen Archives
have also ventured into direct licensing of
All audio processing for Chelsea
Rialto Studios restorations has been done Recent releases prepared by
CR Studios include: The score to Darryl F. Zanuck's
1944 Production WILSON is a rousing cornucopia
from the
best available elements, and then compile the cues into continuous
symphonic
scores with sustained ambience for the best possible
listening experience
that can be produced.
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Entertainment in Linden,
Virginia. Their website,www.screenarchives.com
Nearly all the Max Steiner restorations are prepared for the
Brigham Young
University Film Music Archives. BYU maintains the Max Steiner
Papers,
which includes the late composer's entire collection of acetate
discs.
These were, for the most part, recorded live on the sound stage
for
immediate playback at the original scoring sessions. James D'Arc of BYU
initiated
the BYU/FMA Soundtrack CD series and is responsible for assigning
talent
to every aspect of each project, including audio production, liner
notes and layout.
DODGE CITY / THE OKLAHOMA KID not only contains two nearly
complete
scores on a single CD, but also includes a mammoth, full-color, 72
page booklet
with liner notes by film historian and author of INSIDE WARNER
BROTHERS,
Rudy Behlmer. Most of the Max Steiner scores are produced
by
permission of Time-Warner Inc.
musical scores from both Richard
Feiner & Company and 20th Century-Fox.
From Richard Feiner, we have
licensed the rights to the scores to Milton
Sperling's United States
Pictures, which were originally released
through Warner Bros. (Sperling was
Jack Warner's son-in-law!). Released-to-date
are DISTANT DRUMS: MAX STEINER
AND THE UNITED STATES
PICTURES SCORES (which includes DISTANT DRUMS, MY GIRL
TISA,
SOUTH OF ST. LOUIS and CLOAK AND DAGGER); PURSUED; and
Dimitri
Tiomkin's THE COURT-MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL.
The score for BILLY MITCHELL
is only 34 minutes long, so the music has been
complimented with the actual
soundtrack portions of the Court-martial.
A similar approach was taken with
CR Studio's KING KONG album,
released by Rhino Records, in which the
surviving 28 minutes
of isolated music tracks were accompanied by an aural
adaptation of the
complete soundtrack.
this 2-CD spectacular.
on the Sound Forge Industrial
Editing system. The master audio materials are digitized
and then individual
pieces of music, be they full cues or partial cues, are sequenced as
they
appear in the film. Audio anomalies such as pops, clicks and crackle are
removed.
Skips or major blemishes are replaced with matching bars of music
whenever possible.
Underlying surface noise is carefully analyzed and
reduced to the extent that such
reduction does not compromise the brightness,
clarity or ambience of the recording.
Maintaining continuous ambience in the
assembled recordings not only makes for a more
rewarding listening experience
musically, but sonically it removes the jarring effect
so often experienced
when a cue from a film score of 40 or 50 years ago is heard,
with whatever
surface noise may be retained, and then when the cue is over, the
entire
audio is dialed out. Three or four seconds later, the next cue begins
with a resumption in
extraneous ambient noise as well as music. By
maintaining continuous ambience,
though some noise may remain, it does not
constantly call attention to itself by being
reintroduced with every new
score cue.
Hugo Friedhofer's THE BISHOP'S WIFE;
a 3-CD
collection, MAX STEINER AT RKO;
and Alfred Newman's
WILSON
of original thematic material
as well as popular and Americana
music of the period. The Screen Archives
album features the entire score,
including songs from the political
campaigns depicted and accompaniment
for the Movietone Newsreels prepared
especially for the picture.