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1. You will need a factory copy of The Wizard of Oz (TWoOz) in either VHS or DVD format. For best results, the Definitive List (DL) suggests the use of either the 50th Anniversary edition or the digitally mastered THX version. A home-made copy from TV will not do, unless you taped it from a channel like the AMC or TCM with zero commercial interruptions, and it will need the 3 roars of the black & white MGM® lion at the beginning of the film.
2. You will also need The Dark Side of the Moon (DSTOM) CD by Pink Floyd. Do not attempt to do this using audio cassette tape, vinyl LP or a pirated CD you downloaded and burned from the Internet (if you have one you should be ashamed!) or you will find yourself sorely disappointed with the results. The DL suggests the use of either the 25th Anniversary, digitally mastered edition, or the hybrid SACD.
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Virtually any combination of available factory media will work decently, but only the versions suggested above will yield the largest and juiciest crop of syncs, as are found on the DL. For those of you who already own both pieces of media, the way out of having to set it up each time may be found by clicking here.
Firstly if you aren't familiar with Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon then wake up and smell the coffee! DSOTM is one of the finest pieces of secular contemporary music ever made. It dominated the charts in the 70s and 80s, spending 741 consecutive weeks on Billboard charts and only after it fell completely from the chart in 1987 for a short period of time, was it not reinserted, although it continues, on and off to this day to be one of the top 100 selling albums each week! Don't be a dope who just hears that you can sync up two pieces of media that you are unfamiliar with. Get familiar with the media individually before you throw them into the soup together or you won't really appreciate anything you are seeing or hearing with this experiment. Now that that's said ...
It will probably take you a few
tries to get the sync lined up just right so be patient!
1.) Load the
DSOTM CD into your CD player
2.) Press PLAY (>) and then
immediately press PAUSE (II) so the CD is cued up and ready to roll.
3.) Set your CD player to Continuous Replay. In most CD
players, this is done by pressing the "REPEAT" button twice which
will engage the machine to play the CD repeatedly. Pressing
it once will usually repeat only the current playing track. The CD
will play about two and a quarter times through the entire length of
the movie.
Now start the video and fast
forward past all the preview junk at the beginning (about five minutes worth on the
THX VHS version) . Once you have your VHS or DVD to the very beginning of the movie, where the
BLACK & WHITE MGM
lion roars, immediately after the BLACK & WHITE
MGM Lion roars for the
THIRD (3rd) time, press the PLAY button on the CD player.
I overemphasize "black and white" in reference to the MGM Lion
because, at least on the THX version there is a colour MGM Lion that
appears prior to the black and white one.
Now turn down the sound volume on the TV, because the dialogue and original soundtrack are not necessary for this experiment -- neither should they even be considered. The DSOTM CD will provide all the sound you'll need.
You can basically gauge how well you've sync'd it based on how well #'s 1, 5 and 6 line up. #1 fades in perfectly, #5 has Dorothy touching the man's arm exactly on the word "touch" and #6 has the drumbeat syncing with the farmhand hitting his finger with the hammer immediately after the word "done". Don't worry if you have to restart it a few times. The effect is worth the trouble.
I've been made aware of potential problems with some portable compact stereos as well as some older models of component CD players, in that they either do not have a "repeat" function or the return response is a bit delayed (that is, the time it takes for the laser to move from the end of the CD back to the beginning for replay). Therefore, if this is kind of equipment you have, your results AFTER the first play-through will probably vary from this list. A few of those variances are mentioned in some places but it would be impossible to list all of the variations which can be found with the few CD players out there which have this handicap. You may rest assured that the FIRST AND BEST play-though works just fine. You can also avoid all of this trouble by clicking here.
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