Posted by One-Shot Scot on 10/20/05 06:49

I have a copy of the original BBC Video _Wallace & Gromit_, which is out of
print. My favorite episode on this disk is _The Wrong Trousers_. I had
contemplated upgrading to the latest _W & G_ DVD, until I saw this:


"In terms of the films themselves, The Wrong Trousers has been altered, and
that's what really bugs me. I think it has something to do with copyright
laws, but several music tracks have been replaced with terrible-sounding
substitutes. Gromit's birthday card plays a very non-birthday-card-sounding
version of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" instead of "Happy Birthday To
You". When the Penguin is listening to the radio, the songs "Happy Talk" and
"How Much Is That Doggy In The Window" have been replaced with terrible,
generic organ music that completely takes away the mood of the scenes.
Consequently, the sound of Wallace humming "How Much Is That Doggy In The
Window" the next morning has also been removed.

"This bit may not bother most people, but for some reason all the
soundtracks for the shorts are a semitone flat. I can only assume this is
because the film was transferred at a slower rate."


So, is the music which has been substituted for the original soundtrack
really all that bad? Also, are the soundtracks for the three short subjects
as screwed up as the Amazon reviewer seems to think they are?

I'll probably end up getting the new _W & G_ disk for the Cracking
Contraption shorts and its supposedly better video. But I think that I will
keep my BBC Video _W & G_ DVD. After all, it does have the original
soundtrack for _The Wrong Trousers_.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005LC1I/102-8131998-7046534?v=glance

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