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The Alton Towers Music, Video and Other Multimedia Thread

DistortAMG said:
This is rather excellent I must say. Uploaded last night. Prepare for plenty of behind the scenes porn galore. 1 hour of my life absolutely not wasted. Nice to see John Wardley walking around the ride and in the upper gallows of the building, taking about the attraction. This video was a real treat for me. Really well done.

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John in the footage of him riding Duel. Poor bloke.

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As a reminder, this is the music, video and multimedia thread, not the place to be discussing your issues with individual creators.

As we've said in other topics - if you want to share content that has been created by someone, then fantastic. If you want to air your grievances about individuals, then contact them on their own social channels, not here on TowersStreet.

I'll be removing any posts referring to the above, leaving on discussion about the content itself. Thanks.
 
DistortAMG said:
This is rather excellent I must say. Uploaded last night. Prepare for plenty of behind the scenes porn galore. 1 hour of my life absolutely not wasted. Nice to see John Wardley walking around the ride and in the upper gallows of the building, taking about the attraction. This video was a real treat for me. Really well done.

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That is a very good documentary; thanks for sharing!

One thing I don't think you quite realised when you went round that ride as Duel is quite how impressive some of the sets in the Haunted House were. Looking at them in that video, many of the sets are (were?) really incredibly detailed!
 
DistortAMG said:
This is rather excellent I must say. Uploaded last night. Prepare for plenty of behind the scenes porn galore. 1 hour of my life absolutely not wasted. Nice to see John Wardley walking around the ride and in the upper gallows of the building, taking about the attraction. This video was a real treat for me. Really well done.

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It's a brilliant documentary! The best video on the whole of YouTube in my opinion. I loved seeing the sets behind the scenes!
 
Rob said:
Unsure but I would imagine it was done internally, and it definitely did not sound like an IMAscore soundtrack. Probably/possibly Simon Allen.
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See I would say there are sections which definitely sound like IMAScore. However they seem to have been quiet recently across social media.
 
Insufferably nerdy post incoming...

I'm sure a lot of us are familiar with the old 80s/90s promos - 5-10mins of singing the parks praises with a nice chunk of humour, and a surprisingly good retrospective of that era of Towers. Generally speaking these use clips (sometimes demos) of park music, but there's a few anomalies that could be thrown as random tracks being chosen that just happen to fit the mood. Or...

This promo from 1994 (alongside several others) briefly feature two other Edvard Grieg pieces (the gentleman wrote Mountain King). The first of which is Anitra's Dance, which - funnily enough - is followed by Mountain King in Peer Gynt. The second (skip ahead to 39s) is from Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor. Whilst these aren't the precise recordings, I'd assume someone in the marketing department either loved Grieg or used them as they were easy to license.

Another odd find - whilst watching a Japanese film a couple weeks back, I thought I heard a familiar tune - Claude Debussy's Arabesque, which can be heard in a promo from 1987. The synths used in this obviously weren't around when Debussy was, so on the train home the other night I decided to have a quick dig - which led me to Isao Tomita's version from 1974. An incredibly haunting rendition.

To those well versed in music, none of this will be particularly surprising - but for sods like me who know next to nothing, it's a fun bit of useless trivia.
 
I'm not the most technically minded with this A.I. stuff, but has anyone had a go at upscaling any TV promos that were released in the 90's/early 2000's?

I tried to have a go at the Hex advert a few weeks ago, but couldn't really get it to work very well. But I probably wasn't doing it correctly.
 
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Apologies if this thread isn't the right place to post or discuss this, but I've just discovered that Towers are sponsoring Moneyball (game show) on ITV. Have they sponsored programmes in the past?
 
Skyscraper said:
Apologies if this thread isn't the right place to post or discuss this, but I've just discovered that Towers are sponsoring Moneyball (game show) on ITV. Have they sponsored programmes in the past?
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Probably part of the same contract where Chessington and Thorpe have sponsored other ITV programmes recently. But first time I've heard of Towers specifically sponsoring a programme.
 
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