Weed-eating has nothing to do with this. It's a simple matter of careful observation. The music off the Dark Side album matches up to the movie too well to be mere accident (they do a guitar solo exactly in synch with Dorothy walking home after her encounter with the wicked old lady). We are talking melody as well as beat here. The pot people allow themselves to notice, but then for some reason they can't relate to the significance of what is happening (drugs don't get you much, and then take away more), and then most others just ignore what is happening, but can't seem to keep themselves from arguing with so much negative emotion against the very idea of such a practice (very quick with the weed accusations, they are).
I keep forgetting that most people lack basic engineering sensibility. Clearly this practice has been going on for many decades, at least since The Wizard of Oz was filmed by MGM anyway, because that film was synched to music available to the period.
Once you see the synchronization in action, you simply back engineer how they did it. You would get yourself three copies of the film, choose your start points on each copy which correspond to the length of your album (or cut up each copy into parts to make the start points), and then play the films in synchronization with each other for use in composing and then recording the music. Floyd synched their album to three different start points by the way; the other two are analogies of the first (third roar, third ...).
For a good example of a synch done to The Wizard of Oz, try playing Please Please Me to the film, just as the Floyd fans say you should play Dark Side to the film. It is clearly purposeful, and the song entitled I Saw Her Standing There ends just as The End fades out in the film. So you see, Floyd was just doing what the Beatles had been doing for a decade prior to the release of The Dark Side of the Moon. The use of the film actually helps make it easier to produce albums which make big money and which are original, just like synchronizing films with music makes it easier to produce films of a superior caliber.
The Beatles used the same second start point that Floyd used. It's the third knock Dorothy makes on the Tin Man's chest when the Tin Man tells her to knock on his chest, just after Dorothy frees up his limbs. The third start point is the third heel click Dorothy makes to get back home to Kansas. Just start the album just as she makes that third knock (or third heel click). Misery starts up just as Dorothy starts her crying fit, after she is captured and held prisoner in the witch's castle. When you start the Please Please Me album on the third heel click, the song entitled I Saw Her Standing There starts with Dorothy "standing there," and ends with the end of the film, where the film fades to black after the ending credits - exactly in time.
Nonsense. I am simply stating facts plainly. I've done my homework, and the truth makes you feel insane.
What homework? State your sources and facts. Lets see some quotes from the people that made this music and did this purposely. It doesnt exist. Some person with too much time on their hands made this up and it became an urban legend. I have the making of 'Dark Side' on DVD and not once is the 'Wizard Of Oz' mentioned by anybody. Why is this? Answer these questions and you might sway one or two of us.
Go Tkitna. What a load of rubbish this is. Maybe, just maybe you could imagine pink Floyd doing this. But the idea that The Beatles sat around in '63 and synched Please please Me is insane. No matter how many happy coincidences (bizarrely called "facts") they come up with.
You do your homework by systematically researching the synchronizations themselves. There is no point looking for quotes which don't exist. Please Please Me was created in synchronization with The Wizard of Oz. It can be plainly observed because happy coincidence can't synch an entire album with a movie to the point where melody, beat, and theme synch. This is standard industry practice. Movies and albums are synched all over the place; very many albums are used to create one movie, and rock groups cut films up all the time to make albums. The Cure even copied Floyd and The Beatles, and then extended the tradition into Excalibur. Pornography was recorded in synchronization with The Wizard of Oz, Rosemary's Baby, and Excalibur, using the same start points that The Beatles and Floyd used (music score beginning is the start point for Ecalibur).
You have done me a great favor, Mr Sol. You have discovered something that Tkitna and I can agree on!
However, I will say that I noticed that if you watch that kooky, late 60s cartoon film "Yellow Submarine", that parts of it are exactly synched with various Beatle songs. I'm thinking of Only A Northern Song, Eleanor Rigby, All You Need is Love, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, and many others -- including, wonderfully, Yellow Submarine itself. THAT could NOT be coincidence!
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Sure Al. People have stated that if you play 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' while the 'Wizard Of Oz' movie is playing, the music and the story line synch up and makes sense together. Of course this pertains to many other instances also and not just Floyd/Oz. Also, the more stoned you get, the better the synch seems. Imagine that. Anyways, here's a link that explains how to do it.
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Sure Al. People have stated that if you play 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' while the 'Wizard Of Oz' movie is playing, the music and the story line synch up and makes sense together. Of course this pertains to many other instances also and not just Floyd/Oz. Also, the more stoned you get, the better the synch seems. Imagine that. Anyways, here's a link that explains how to do it.
Ah, I see! Cheers TK - I was wondering what everyone was going on about! So, I assume you have to turn off the film soundtrack then - otherwise that would be a very bad trip for Dorothy!
However, I will say that I noticed that if you watch that kooky, late 60s cartoon film "Yellow Submarine", that parts of it are exactly synched with various Beatle songs. I'm thinking of Only A Northern Song, Eleanor Rigby, All You Need is Love, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, and many others -- including, wonderfully, Yellow Submarine itself. THAT could NOT be coincidence!
Nice!
Well, I can see this is a no win situation and i'm bailing out. I leave Sol's opinions to the rest of you and wish you good luck. (Damn, I know that last post synch's up to some Dylan tune, but I just cant put my finger on it.)
Considering John Lennon lived in the Rosemarys babys suite at the Dakota, its not that far fetched,and also the part in the movie where the lady falls, is the almost exact spot where Lennon was killed,still think your full of it though.
Rosemarys Baby was filmed on location at the Dakota,the rooms where it was filmed is where John Lennon spent the last couple of years of his life...weird!
Considering John Lennon lived in the Rosemarys babys suite at the Dakota, its not that far fetched,and also the part in the movie where the lady falls, is the almost exact spot where Lennon was killed,still think your full of it though.
Rosemarys Baby was filmed on location at the Dakota,the rooms where it was filmed is where John Lennon spent the last couple of years of his life...weird!
It wasn't filmed on location at the Dakota. There are some outside shots of it, the property owners have always forbidden filming in or of the Dakota with this one exception.
As I said before John Lennon lived in the Rosemarys Baby suite at the Dakota,I dont know about filming on location inside the building now,but this film was set inside,and outside that building.
Polanski's camera work and Richard Sylbert's production design transform the realistic setting (shot on location in Manhattan's Dakota apartment building) into a sinister projection of Rosemary's fears, chillingly locating supernatural horror in the familiar by leaving the most grotesque frights to the viewer's imagination. This apocalyptic yet darkly comic paranoia about the hallowed institution of childbirth touched a nerve with late '60s audiences feeling uneasy about traditional norms.
Perhaps because of this movie they wont allow that now.
Trust me ,I've know this since the 70s,when it was a blurb in the news on him moving into the Rosemarys Baby suite,at the time I dont think anyone wanted to live in that apartment...
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