RCA VideoDiscs 1981 opening in mono and stereo

This is the 1st version opening for RCA SelectaVision videodiscs featuring an edited rendition of Isao Tomita's "Promenade" from his electronic interpretation of "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky.

This video clip features the original monaural sound and a remastered stereo track that I have furnished for this clip.

The opening was sourced from a monaural CED copy of "Tora! Tora! Tora!"

The videodisc was played on an RCA SJT-200 CED VideoDisc player.

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[logostrikebeta2]

How hard was the remaster, 3223?

[Watcher3223]

@logostrikebeta2

Not too hard, at least for me.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

They later used that music when you pause the game to go to the options screen in the NES version of "Mario Is Missing".

[Watcher3223]

@HomeoftheGoodGuys

Of course, I think you mean the Promenade piece from "Pictures at an Exhibition" rather than Isao Tomita's interpretation of said music.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

The music is beautiful - I have always loved this logo! :-)

[MattTheSaiyan]

This logo looks good enough to eat.

[thatguyontheright1]

@Watcher3223 I'll go through my RCA released CEDs

[Watcher3223]

@thatguyontheright1

That would be interesting if that was the case.

Would you be willing to locate this title having a stereo rendition of this logo?

It's also possible that, while the movie may be in stereo, the bumper may have been originally mixed in mono and was never remade into stereo considering that RCA had commissioned Robert Abel and Associates to make the new bumper.

One way to find out will be to locate a stereo release with the old bumper and listen to the bumper's music.

[thatguyontheright1]

@Watcher3223 I could have sworn I have one, I thought they started Stereo discs in early 82, and did the new bumper later that year.

[Watcher3223]

@thatguyontheright1

Except there were no stereo releases that used the older RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs bumper.