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1. Alex North’s 2001 and Beyond

Alex North’s 2001 and Beyond. In 1983 I was working as an art director for the studio which did the special effects for THE RIGHT STUFF. Though I was not personally involved in the effects, my knowledge of film music was well known around the studio and director Phil Kaufman, who was frequently coming in for meetings, asked me who I would recommend to do the score.

Friday, 28 March 2008 | 2800 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

2. Melody Time

The animated films of Walt Disney can be divided into two major periods of development and culmination: the initial phase extending from his first efforts in the medium in the mid/late 1920s through the release of BAMBI in 1942, and the second lasting from 1942 to 1959...

Monday, 27 July 2009 | 4346 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

3. Notes on Dragonslayer

Notes on Dragonslayer. The following article was originally written to accompany the Label X [Southern Cross] Records release of Alex North’s DRAGONSLAYER soundtrack, now out of print. After the planned booklet did not materialize, this material was subsequently made available to CinemaScore by Mr. Rosar. While the article concerns specifically the musical cues

Friday, 18 April 2008 | 2416 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report

4. The Alamo Remembered

John Wayne was in Mexico when he decided to produce and direct THE ALAMO. The ‘forties were coming to a close and for Wayne it was a period of professional immersion in celluloid Americana, a time in which history and mythology and Wayne’s own peculiar personification...

Wednesday, 30 December 2009 | 4781 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Report