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Post by loucapitano on Jun 16, 2011 18:53:28 GMT -5
While I was playing movie themes on my suitcase record player, my Dad was downstairs playing opera on his 100 watt stereo-hi-fi system. You should see him conduct. Once I was old enough for him to trust me with his diamond needle record changer, I played my Alamo record along with the other movie themes I collected. I loved Miklos Rosa too. Unfortunately, all my records were Monoral, because I didn't get my first stero until I was 17. My first stereo movie album soundtrack was the "Longest Day." You could hear the assault boats lower their ramps on the beach and the soldiers attacking from left speaker to right speaker. Once I played the Beatles on my Father's system and it sounded sounded like I never heard them before. Sorry, I sometimes get lost in my memories.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Jun 17, 2011 22:44:01 GMT -5
Amen, Brother. I'm not quite sure inspired me to start conducting 90-piece orchestras on my stereo, but I think it was a combination of watching Tiomkin conduct the chorus in Spirit of the Alamo and Leopold Stakowski and Mickey Mouse in Fantasia. What power! What control! (Except when they refuse to cut off when I cue them at the end of a cue.).
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Post by cje on Sept 10, 2011 22:50:11 GMT -5
Looking back over the various relys, it has gone from a request / input about the opening art when the credits were rolling to music and directing when one was a child (I think a whole lot of us did this!).
It would be wonderful to have a collection of these (9?) pictures. I have no idea as to where or how I could get ahold of a set.
I recently found in my office pictures/slides of my 1967 visit to the Alamo in San Antonio and the Alamo of Alamo Village. what is interesting to me are the slides of the Alamo in Alamo Village. Parts of the walls still have the color that was in the Alamo movie. That plus the light and clouds at different times of the day brings back almost hauting memories of the movie and my visit.
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Post by Kevin Young on Sept 11, 2011 12:58:38 GMT -5
Talk to Ashley Ward-he has a mega collection of negatives including those title shot paintings. He hangs out over on the John Wayne-Alamo forum.
One of the originals (the last one used) is at the Bush Library at Texas A&M.
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