The Beatles recorded The Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, and Let It Be in synchronization with the Roman Polanski movie entitled Rosemary's Baby. This was a response to the movie having been filmed in synchronization with earlier Beatles album titles, including: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Revolver, Rubber Soul, Help, and Beatles For Sale. Much that is strange about Beatle Lyrics in the later albums is explained by this movie-album synchronization between Rosemary's Baby and the music of the Beatles. The start point for these synchronizations is easy to find. One simply pauses the movie right when the weird piano chime sounds, just as the Paramount Studio logo flashes onto the screen. This occurs right at the beginning of the film for Rosemary's Baby, so one simply pauses right at the beginning of the movie, and then starts the first song on the album and the movie simultaneously for the synchronization to line up properly (for The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, the start point happens a few seconds later during the studio logo intro, when the musical chime or drum roll indicates the start point). The CD player should be in repeat-all mode while the movie plays, so that the music lasts the entire length of the movie.
Stanley Kubrick also made use of the Brittish-release Beatles albums for his movie, including an echoing loop version of Abbey Road. Typically, the start point for a movie-album synchronization is where a musical hints have been included with the studio logo intro, at the exact point of the first beginning credit, or when the musical score begins (the case for Boys Don't Cry, a Let It Be/Abbey Road movie for certain). The DVD versions of Stanley Kubrick movies filmed after 2001: A Space Odyssey can be played in synchronization with the CD version of Abbey Road all day long. Just leave the DVD and CD playing uninterupted right through the main menu sequence and into the next showing of the movie for as long as one feels like studying (2001 uses an echoing loop version of Revolver).
Anyway, Spinal Tap was filmed in synchronization with The White Album. The start point is the word "boogie," and the jet engine sound on the album matches the jet flying over on the film.
You didn't focus in on films and floyd, etc... to begin with in making your internet search reply. An internet search done for Khephra Sol brings up a number of different Khephra Sols. The ones which are me do not indicate that I am "different," nor that I am rabbiting on about anything.
Anyway, Eugenie ... the story of her journey into perversion was synched with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Rubber Soul. Jesse Franco liked to use the Beatles for his films.
the synchronizing thing never did much for me either. there are so many other things a person can use their time for. i bet if people stopped trying find movies that synch with albums and did soemthing productive we'd have a cure for cancer by now.
I've done the Floyd/Wizard Of Oz thing in college and thought that was neat. We then did a Sgt. Peppers/Wizard Of Oz thing that was just as good. Its all hogwash.
If these synchs are done correctly, they are clearly purposeful, just as is the DSOTM/Oz synch. You have to use the correct start points (there are three for the Floyd-Dorothy synch: Third Roar, Third Chest Rap, and Third Heal Click). I'll have to try the Sgt. Pepper-Oz combination, though my suspicions that Sgt. Pepper is a Catcher In The Rye synch will probably turn out to be true.
Not all music synchs with all films by the way. I've experimented with this, and it just isn't true. The synchs I like to discuss couldn't possibly be accidental. Accidental synchs are rare and usually either comical or boring. Very rarely are they informative.
Example: Pornography, by The Cure, was used in filming Coppola's version of Bram Stoker's Dracula (beginning of music score is start point). The song entitled Pornography starts just as Lucy and Nina are going to sit down on the bench in the garden, and then ends as they are leaving a bench in the same garden. The same album was used for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and there Pornography starts up just as Hermione sits down on the bench seat in the train, and then ends just as she seats herself in at the diner table at Hogwarts the same night (candy is symbolic of or analogous to pornography). These synchs are their own culture within the mass media industries. A culture which is steeped in alchemical tradition I might add.
If these synchs are done correctly, they are clearly purposeful, just as is the DSOTM/Oz synch.
You need to lay off the weed Khephra. The 'Dark Side Of The Moon/Wizard Of Oz' synch wasnt purposely done. If so, why doesnt the album/CD/Tape last for the entire movie? I can just see Roger Waters and Gilmour plotting how they could make their album mysterious by synching it up with 'WOO'. Give me a break.
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.
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...
Page 73 of "Life At the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address" says only exterior shots were filmed by Polanski, save for the carriage entrance/courtyard where the 'suicide scene' was filmed. The views in the movie could be from any of the builidings on Central Park West.
You're right about that,some of the scenes were filmed in LA.,but John moved into the Rosemarys Baby suite,either they filmed some of the scenes in there,or they copied one of the rooms for their LA. shoot,Ive alway heard both stories myself,but I was always confused by the fact that there is a Rosemarys Baby room in the Dakota,perhaps we are both right,they didnt shoot inside,but they named a room after the movie,in which John moved into thats a fact.
There's something to synchronicity--but I think it has to do with the ultimately subjective nature of reality. Of course things are synchronous--that's the way the mind works, it is constantly synchronizing disparate events into seamless, and hopefully, meaningful wholes. Lennon seems preoccupied with this idea-intuitively in songs like "good morning" "across the universe" or "I am the walrus." Out of the chaos and cacophany comes the momentary order of the refrain.
I suggest Deepak look at the poetry of Wallace Stevens or William Carlos Williams--they both wrestled creatively with the formation of order out of the chaos of phenomena and the mind's ability to facilitate the process (and at the same time get in the way of it).
There's no "magick" out there. It's the wonder of your own consciousness!
There's something to synchronicity--but I think it has to do with the ultimately subjective nature of reality. Of course things are synchronous--that's the way the mind works, it is constantly synchronizing disparate events into seamless, and hopefully, meaningful wholes. Lennon seems preoccupied with this idea-intuitively in songs like "good morning" "across the universe" or "I am the walrus." Out of the chaos and cacophany comes the momentary order of the refrain.
I suggest Deepak look at the poetry of Wallace Stevens or William Carlos Williams--they both wrestled creatively with the formation of order out of the chaos of phenomena and the mind's ability to facilitate the process (and at the same time get in the way of it).
There's no "magick" out there. It's the wonder of your own consciousness!
Dude I dont want to spoil your trip,but the sixties are over,you know what they said at Woodstock dont you,"Stay away from the brown acid man"!
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