Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2019 13:18:14 GMT -5
What's your verdict? Do you think Dark Side of the Moon syncs up with the Wizard of Oz, or not so much?
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the pairing. I've tried it twice and both times felt the lyrics didn't match more than they did. What's more, the downcast vibe the album gives off contrasts pretty heavily with the whimsical tone of Oz.
I made a pairing of the United States of America and Fritz Lang's Metropolis once. I called it The American Metropolitan Circus.
Unfortunately the completed version which I uploaded on YouTube was taken down for copyright and either I accidently deleted my master copy or never saved it properly. So until/unless I feel like getting back into that, all that remains are some test edits off my old YouTube channel. The ones I’d recommend viewing are Version E and Version D. The best start-time is as soon as the German credits (and not the earlier ones added by later distributors) come on. It should sync up so that the sampled carnival music plays during the opening credits, then starts getting trippy once the Metropolis title-card appears on screen. The first song should end about when the workers enter the underground factories and the subtitles rise up. Ideally, the starting point for the second track should coincide with the runners beginning their race (when the referee’s arm comes down.) Unfortunately, none of these copies are perfect--I had to manipulate the breaks between each track to get them all to line up perfectly in that now-lost edit.
Are there any other cool synchronizations between film and music out there?
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the pairing. I've tried it twice and both times felt the lyrics didn't match more than they did. What's more, the downcast vibe the album gives off contrasts pretty heavily with the whimsical tone of Oz.
I made a pairing of the United States of America and Fritz Lang's Metropolis once. I called it The American Metropolitan Circus.
Unfortunately the completed version which I uploaded on YouTube was taken down for copyright and either I accidently deleted my master copy or never saved it properly. So until/unless I feel like getting back into that, all that remains are some test edits off my old YouTube channel. The ones I’d recommend viewing are Version E and Version D. The best start-time is as soon as the German credits (and not the earlier ones added by later distributors) come on. It should sync up so that the sampled carnival music plays during the opening credits, then starts getting trippy once the Metropolis title-card appears on screen. The first song should end about when the workers enter the underground factories and the subtitles rise up. Ideally, the starting point for the second track should coincide with the runners beginning their race (when the referee’s arm comes down.) Unfortunately, none of these copies are perfect--I had to manipulate the breaks between each track to get them all to line up perfectly in that now-lost edit.
Are there any other cool synchronizations between film and music out there?
Still, I'd guess you never were a doing-things-by-halves person. 
The opening track is still fresh in my memory--I was listening to it only last Sunday. 
