GMpasqua
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Allan any idea if the original filmed songs from "Annie' still exist? I've read before cuts the film ran over 4 hours? And that as before the called the cast back 6 months later to re-shoot 4 or 5 songsOriginally Posted by allanfisch
Yes, it was like that in the theater. Margaret Boothe(a very nice lady and one of the treasures of MGM and the motion picture industry, RIP) was the supervising film editor, and possibly was stone deaf by this point. But the "extras"s are all ADR'd anyway. Hell, I was watching parts of The Ten Commandments and the "looping" of the extras in that film is ludicrous as well. What about the festival scene in The Sound of Music when Max is making announcements about the fate of the Von Trapps and there is a very loud, grumbling "Third Reich" from the audience...this kinda thing not new and I would not call it a mistake or error, it's just a creative decision. Sometimes things are done in the film-making process, that while appearing odd or strange to the general public, actually were done for a reason. Perhaps the street scenes in Annie woud have been even more dead and lifeless w/o the dubbing!