Sound on Tsuchimoto Afghan films

John Junkerman jtj at rf7.so-net.ne.jp
Wed Feb 15 01:29:21 EST 2012


Yes, of course Afghan Spring is synch. It's almost all documentary scenes (as opposed to museum artifacts, etc).

On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Aaron Gerow wrote:

> Roger,
> 
> The DVD jackets do specifically say "Unfortunately the original location sound track has been lost, so Tsuchimoto himself supplied a new voice-ovr commentary". It is also on the website:
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> http://www.zakkafilms.com/film/another-afghanistan-kabul-diary-1985/
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> I have not seen Afghan Spring recently, but the Siglo site and Tsuchimoto's own site don't mention anything about sound problems, so I assume the sound is original.
> 
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