It's Elmer Bernstein actually. Far as I know there aren't any promo's or anything floating around, but you never know what might come out of Europe or Asia these days.

shehan23, December 17, 2004; 10:45 PM

There was a bootleg on "Jaws Records". #80.78.97 which was paired with the TV score to LITTLE WOMEN. The quality was poor but I do have it.

hammon, December 17, 2004; 10:47 PM

"The quality was poor..."

The understatement of the year. I found the "Jaws Records" CD release so unlistenable that I sold my copy almost immediately. The cover artwork was also very poor quality, the result of a tiny source image that had been enlarged far beyond reasonable limits, which made the image look "pixelated."

Hey Varese Sarabande, how about releasing this quirky and wonderful Bernstein score as one of your next Club releases?! (...along with Goldstein's Gremlins, Conti's Karate Kid (1&2), Silvestri's Back to the Future and Cat's Eye, Elias' Children of the Corn, Band's Troll, etc. Ah, heck...I could go on for days.)


American_Nightmare, December 18, 2004; 8:36 PM

And it is still poor! :)

AIRPLANE would be an awesome "limited release" from Intrada, Varese or anyone else. I would be willing to bet that 1000 copies would sell out in less than a week!

hammon, December 18, 2004; 9:24 PM

Just hope that whoever releases it one day, he will respect those enthusiastic collectors who cannot order it so quickly and he will increase the number of the limit for at least 2500 or 3000 copies... something that Intrada ceased to do already.

42zaphod, December 18, 2004; 9:47 PM

Back in late August 2002, some industrious fellow, who, going by the alias of "The Phage", had mostly-isolated the score from the 5.1 mix of the DVD, released it to be downloaded on various file sharing networks.

Hurrah for him.

The score runs 40 minutes.

Now let us all get our hopes up that this de-mix DVD extraction thingy can be done with [obscure favorite score].

zuvqwyx3, January 7, 2005; 8:39 PM

How was that isolation from the DVD done? What program was used?

kriegerg69, February 8, 2005; 7:09 AM

SOFTWARE USED:

Extracted from DVD with DVDExtractor 0.9b

AC3-to-AIFF Conversion with mAC3dec 1.1

5 channel mixing, and 2 channel down-conversion, with SoundEdit 16

AIFF-to-MP3 encoding with LAME 3.70 (256kbps CBR, Stereo)


If I may quasi-plagiarize ThePhage's notes...

Present on the DVD is a Dolby Digital 5.1 Sound Mix in which the 2 rear channels almost exclusively contain the film score. Extracting these and mixing various channels resulted in the album. Because of the sound design, some of the percussive instruments are left out, or mixed low in the surround channels (and the album). However, it is said to be a large improvement over the 1997 bootleg in both quality and quantity [I haven't heard that]. Fidelity is very high, with a small amount of hiss [sounds much better than all the other Bernstein bootlegs I have heard, which tend to have PROMINENT hiss hovering around 12-14 Khz, or else no sound in those bands at all!]. Two cues have been omitted for excessive sound effects interference.

zuvqwyx3, February 12, 2005; 9:35 PM