Big Mick,

I don't know who the guy working at the house was but I have a vague memory that he was amusing himslef by playing the harmonica outside.

This documentary was a fairly big budget project and it was shot on film. I have the original film but it is the kind where the sound tracks are on separate reels and it needs a special kind of projector that handles both and keeps the pic and sound in sync.

That reminds me of a piece of movie trivia that some Mudcatters ma not know already.

On one of his earlier movies, Lucas was in the mix studio where they take the picture and marry it to a single strand of audiofilm with everything at the proper level. This is a fairly complex operation with the various ("R") reels of picture, the dialog ("D") tracks, sound effects tracks, music tracks, etc. Mix time is fairly expensive so you try to keep things moving right along. A verbal shorthand (I love to mix metaphors and to do it while descrivbing a mix studio is a special achievement!) has developed. If you were to reference a particular reel of picture, you might call out "Reel Four" and if you wanted to hear the sound on a particular dialogue track you might call for "D Three". As I understand it, Lucas was at a mix and heard someone ask for "R-2, D-2", He thought it had a great sound to it.

Sourdough