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At Chelsea Rialto Studios, our goal is to restore classic motion picture music
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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The Official Distributor for Chelsea Rialto Restorations is Screen Archives
Entertainment in Linden, Virginia. Their website,
www.screenarchives.com

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.
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.


CR Studios and Screen Archives have also ventured into direct licensing of
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.

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Go to the DISTANT DRUMS page for more information on
this 2-CD spectacular.


All audio processing for Chelsea Rialto Studios restorations has been done
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.

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Recent releases prepared by CR Studios include:
Hugo Friedhofer's THE BISHOP'S WIFE;
a 3-CD collection, MAX STEINER AT RKO;
and Alfred Newman's WILSON

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The score to Darryl F. Zanuck's 1944 Production WILSON is a rousing cornucopia
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.

Click Here to Listen to the WILSON Main Title"

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Click Here to Listen to an ALTERNATE version of
"The Wilsons Arrive in Washington and Tour the White House"

Click Here to Listen to We Take Our Hats Off To You, Mr. Wilson"

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