Star Wars 40th Anniversary Soundtrack (with hologram)
UPDATE - The video is available to view again and it's better than it was - it now includes a new (and appropriate) outro.
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This is an extra video that I wanted to put out quickly. It will be going public in the morning. It's the kind of topic that likely won't appeal to most subscribers, however the previous hologram vinyl video was surprisingly popular and introduced a new audience to the channel, so it made sense for me to cover this one as well.
Tomorrow I'm hoping to start work on a much more complicated video, that's more in my usual wheelhouse...it's about a niche home audio format.
What's in the STAR WARS 40th Anniversary Vinyl Sountrack Box Set (YouTube)
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Been living vicariously through you for a while!
Loved the new outro! I haven’t laughed so much in ages!
Ha, love the new outro - actually managed to get an LOL out of me. Nice work!
The main character in this video is your new turntable. How on earth do you get hold of such things. ..
It’s all down to researching what models I’d buy if they ever came up for sale worldwide, then setting up saved searches with notifications for them on eBay and waiting....and waiting, and then if they do ever come up, I just buy them there and then and worry about the cost later because I may never see another one.
Add me to the list of people who saw Star Wars in the theatre during its original release. :)
What a collectible item! I spotted your new Denon Turntable, looks a beauty.
It is...it’s pretty much mint too. I imported it from Japan. I’ll cover it in a video at some point.
Nice to see them put “bonus disc” in Mandalorian as well as English.
After watching this I went into storage and dug out the holograms that I purchased in 1975. You have to have a strong light source such as a projector to shine a light through a 1/4" filter to view the holograms, which were sandwiched flat between plastic protectors. Really clunky compared to the 'sophisticated' hologram on the record. The record rotating pictures reminds me of the holograms in Logan's Run movie in 1976.
How long did you spend on getting the record to allign just right when it stopped spinning?
I’m glad you spotted that. I noticed when shooting that every time the record stopped spinning it did it at the exact same spot. So I moved my camera to focus on that spot and did it again. The automatic mechanism in this turntable turns out to be incredibly precise.
January 1978 was a very good month. I may be slightly biased.
I think there’s a good chance I saw the film as a treat for my birthday that was a couple of weeks prior.
Oh man, you hit the nail on the head for why your videos are so intriguing. I would never collect vintage AV equipment for lots of reasons (1 br apartment, I'm not much of a tinkerer, I'd rather collect vintage clothes and furnishings) but I'm perfectly happy to live vicariously through your acquisitions.
It works the other way for me, the vast majority of these things I only buy because of the channel.
The last record I owned was one I won for being soccer player of the month at my elemtary school in the early 80s. I won a bright yellow Tampa Bay Rowdies (pro-soccer team) record that was flexible. When I listened to it, it was some British guys talking about how to play soccer. As an 8 year old it was very very boring - but since it won’t break like a normal record I mainly threw it around trying to hit people with it and eventually shoved it down a garbage disposal in the sink. That was my last record - maybe someday I’ll find another bright yellow Rowdies record then I can break it too.
I’d have used a record of people talking about football as a frisbee too.
Nice! Too rich for my blood, but I can certainly see the appeal. Besides liking the original Star Wars trilogy (not so much the later ones) Star Wars has a very distinct and recognizable musical score. It's pretty rare these days for movie soundtracks to be that interesting to me. About the only other movie soundtracks I think would really stand out would be Back to the Future and Ghostbusters (the original).
There’s no way I would have bought this unless I was showing it in a video. It’s a bit like crowd funding a record. If a few hundred thousand people watch it and some of those subscribe then it will have paid for itself....in about a year.
Any copyright notices yet?
I think I’ll be OK, these clips were ‘cough and you’ll miss it’ length.
I'm a bit surprised you didn't actually stick a torch on the hologram. Perhaps I blinked and missed it :D
I think you blinked.
"A niche home audio format." Monophonic sound. :)
I know you’re really thinking of quad...but that’s still being saved for a future episode.
Still got my original Star Wars soundtrack at home in vinyl and reel to reel copies.
Is it a 7.5ips reel?