The General (1926) - Original piano score by William P. Perry (BluRay Quality, full movie)

A complete and remastered version of this movie was released on BluRay by Kino International in 2009. It featured scores by Carl Davis, Robert Israel and Lee Irwin. However, there exists a piano score composed by William P. Perry which was done over a different copy of the movie which seemingly was in worse conditions, with many lost frames and changes in the order of the scenes. There are certain scenes -e.g. when Anabelle talks to the Northern Generals in the house- which were lost. This version of the movie was released on DVD by various companies. I wanted to enjoy the BluRay remaster and Perry’s score at the same time. Nevertheless, the differences between the two versions of the movie would make this impossible without a full adaptation of the high definition release. In order to do so, I had to make a frame-by-frame comparison of both sources to have them match in length. AviSynth helped me do this without having to shoot my head. It was a lot of work, though: I splitted manual
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