Dear Editor
I was very pleased to read issue 28 of the AMPS Newsletter and I read it from cover to cover - more or less...
As an old movie buff, I much enjoyed the I Wish I'd Recorded That! piece. However, according to my Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, the Tarzan words did not occur in any of the films or in the original story by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Just in case they might be of interest as an item in a future newsletter, here are some other misquotations from the same source:
'Play it again, Sam'
In the film 'Casablanca' Humphrey Bogart says, 'If she can stand it, I can. Play it!'; earlier in the film Ingrid Bergman says, 'Play it , Sam. Play As Time Goes By.'
'Why don't you come up and see my sometime?'
Alteration of her invitation in the film 'She Done Him Wrong'. 'Why don't you come up sometime, and see me?'
In Money and Movies you say that 'Waterworld' was the most expensive film of all time. I believe 'Titanic' has exceeded the cost by a considerable amount.
I also wonder about 'Mad Max' claiming 'the biggest return'. Recouping three times its cost is surely no big deal. What about 'The Full Monty' which only cost $3.5 million?
I look forward to the next edition and I offer congratulations to the indefatigable editors.
Yours sincerely
Sir SYDNEY SAMUELSON CBE
Dear Editor
Regarding Peter Handford's article on sound recording for 'Under Capricorn', I wish to confess that I was the 'amateur' boom operator mentioned on page 8. Far from being an amateur, which according to the Oxford Dictionary is a person who does things for pleasure, I seem to remember being paid at twice the union rate! I was also the rather nervous person who had to plug six microphones into a four-channel mixer. My outstanding memory of the picture was the stills man who took a flash photo on his speed graphic half way through a 10 minute take. He was never seen again! I was also one of the rerecording mixers on this film, and it may be of some interest to recall that in one large close-up of Ingrid Bergman the camera noise was so loud (not Peter Handford's fault) that music was deliberately scored to harmonise with the camera noise frequency, using a violin!
JOHN ALDRED
Fuengirola
Spain