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What is even more intriguing is the fact that "JAILHOUSE ROCK" was not shot in CinemaScope!

The film has a credit for the stereophonic soundtrack. Fred Hynes (Todd-AO).

Also when one of the boys alerts Lawrence that Jackson Bentley is approaching him, the scene of him say in "The Man" was removed from the restored version but was in the 202, and possibly the 222 minute versions.

Are you referring to the shot of the very young girls, as you don't see them in the 202 minute version?

I saw a shortened version shortly after I arrived in the US in 1979. The whole opening scenes were gone and the film started with the arrival of Tim O'Leary and the murder of the policeman. Surely the negative footage has not been removed and survives?

Gordon Macrae's son Gar was the recordist on that new dubbing stage. He visited his son there on one occasion and I missed him.

Yes, NAPOLEON, and later OKLAHOMA! at Gomillion! I remember well you took or got my parents in to see NAPOLEON on one of their visits from England.

It is usually common for music to be recorded multi-track (with exceptions which Mr. Harris mentioned) and this is no indication that the final will be stereo as it is just for the benefit of the dubbing mixers to have latitude in the balancing of the final mix. This is no doubt old news to most...

Sorry, "artificially" produced stereo from the LP mono master I should have said, which it was!

Do we know if the LP used the original tracks? If not, it is possible a mono session was done for the LP, as mono LP's were the norm in late '58, and a stereo version was produced from the mono LP master.

No. The German blu ray, which I purchased, used the mono isolated score from the Laserdisc and possibly the English composite mono track. I had nothing to do with the German disc, the laserdisc tracks must have been accessed through MGM or Amazon.

The only 35mm magnetic track that was available to me was a 35mm 3-track, channel one: composite; channel two: blank; channel three: M&E

Thank Robert. This mono copy of the score I recall was donated to a university and a dat copy was accessed by William Rosar, I believe, with the assistance of Jerome Moross' daughter, Susanna Moross Tarjan.

Yes.

Apparently the music was recorded three channel at Samuel Goldwyn Studios Stage #7 by Vinton Vernon. (Shown here on the back of a quarter inch tape box. A 'stereo combine' was made of the score which I used for the isolated score on the laserdisc and was also used on the German blu ray). It's a...