If You Can Walk ©1977 Harvey Edwards. All Rights Reserved.
Listen to the Mountains ©1977 Dewitt Jones Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
Catalog Number |
32-006 |
Format |
Standard Play CAV |
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Mono |
Pressing Location |
DiscoVision Carson |
Label Color |
Green |
Retail Price |
$9.95 |
Year Issued |
1979 |
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Program |
Frames |
Running Time |
If You Can Walk |
20,694 |
14min 22sec |
Listen...Mountains |
32,544 |
22min 36sec |
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Ratings |
Video Transfer |
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Audio Transfer |
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Replication |
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Packaging |
Open-Top |
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Side-Open Sticker | |
Printed | |
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Pressing Notes
This entry in the "How-To Sports" catalog is rather odd. The first program If You Can Walk clearly fits into
this area of the Silver Catalog as it discusses the techniques behind cross-country skiing. The only thing it has in
common with Listen to the Mountains on the other side is that cross-country skiing takes place in it. Clearly
this had to have been the reason to marry these two titles together. If You Can Walk couldn't be combined with
any other program in the "How-To" catalog and is too short (14 minutes) to really stand on it's own. Listen to the
Mountains is more of a "Spectator" program as it documents the journey up the Sierra Nevada and the two weeks spent
on the other side by three friends. It is very similar in nature and style to
Sentinel: The West Face.
The video transfer on both program is about the same. For some reason, programs on DiscoVision which involve skiing
are very blue. It must be some type of filtering used to reduce excessive glare from the snow. One might think it
is a trick by the filmmaker to make it "look" cold - but I doubt it. Other than the coloring, the images are as you
might expect from a 16mm source print. Detail is good overall with no annoying variances in contract or brightness.
The audio here is also what one would expect from 16mm source. It is dull and flat. Disc replication - based from
the only copy I have ever seen - was typical. Both sides begin with moderate noise in the audio and video, but it
cleans up quickly. There is very little speckling in evidence.
This title did not include side numbers on the disc labels. Instead, each side was labeled with the correct program
If You Can Walk and Listen to the Mountains. Further, the catalog number on the disc labels also reflected
this deviation from the norm, with 32-006A on the "If You Can Walk" program and 32-006B on the other.
Release History
If You Can Walk and Listen to the Mountains were never reissued on LaserDisc.
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