Extinct Attractions Club

[Eric Paddon]

I received my copy today and it is a definite improvement over the first version by using the natural audio of the home video footage of IYHW, and also the X Attencio recollections.

The audio does slip a bit out of synch during the traffic cop sequence, but it isn't a case of another audio track being substituted at this point, but rather some glitch in the transfer. I have this same footage on VHS and the soundtrack is the same (though on my VHS this out of synch glitch does not happen).

We may never see a better home video version of "If You Had Wings" so we should at least be grateful that it lived long enough to be videotaped this once.

 

[X-S Tech]

So the audio is a live recording right?

 

[Eric Paddon]

Yes, it's live audio for the actual home video footage used for IYHW. They use only a tiny snippet of the demo track audio at the very beginning of the footage for the departure announcements but quickly shift to the normal live audio.

The one drawback is that you can't access readily the IYHW footage without going through the entire documentary footage first. IYHW occurs at roughly 20 minutes in.