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Speaker 1: We love a cinematic experience with the full symphony orchestra.

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Speaker 2: No, that is one soundtrack, and well.

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Speaker 1: And you talk about big soundtracks in the history of

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Speaker 1: Australian movies, doesn't come much bigger than The Man from

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Speaker 1: Snowy River. And they are going to be live in

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Speaker 1: concert at Crown Theater next Friday and Saturday. You can

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Speaker 1: get your tickets through Ticketmaster. And of course who do

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Speaker 1: you think of when you think of the Man from

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Speaker 1: Snowy River? You think of Secret Thornton, Sacred Thornton's joining us.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, Ralph in the morning.

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Speaker 3: You can you hear me?

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Speaker 1: Okay, we can hear you perfectly. This is the Bruce

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Speaker 1: Rowland you know soundtrack of The Man from Snowy River,

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Speaker 1: always incredible, and now it's going to be with a

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Speaker 1: fifty four piece symphony orchestra doing it. Just so tell

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Speaker 1: us how this works. I believe the movie is on

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Speaker 1: the screen and the orchestra accompanies that, and that's exactly.

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Speaker 3: How it happens, Lisa. It's it's a new form.

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Speaker 4: We're relatively because the technology allows for that to happen. Now,

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Speaker 4: so that the orchestra's on the stage, the film is

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Speaker 4: also on the stage on a large screen, and the

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Speaker 4: technology such that, you know, the soundtrack played live by

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Speaker 4: the orchestra can fit seamlessly into the original soundtrack in

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Speaker 4: place of the of the recorded soundtrack the original recorded soundtrack.

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Speaker 4: So it's a really wonderful new way of watching film one.

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Speaker 1: And I've always considered the soundtrack, not just the soundtrack

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Speaker 1: songs and what have you, but the score to be

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Speaker 1: such an important character in and of itself in a film.

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Speaker 3: No question about it. It really is. And in this case.

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Speaker 4: Too, Bruce just somehow from the word from the from

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Speaker 4: the time he we knew he was going to be

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Speaker 4: composing the soundtrack, and at that time people didn't know

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Speaker 4: who Bruce Roland was as a film composer because it

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Speaker 4: was his first feature. But he just had the spirit

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Speaker 4: and romance and majesty of the film so beautifully.

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Speaker 3: It's an incredible soundtrack.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an epic.

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Speaker 1: You get that wide open space feel, do you do?

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Speaker 1: You still get goosebumps whenever you hear the opening notes

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Speaker 1: to Jessica's theme.

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Speaker 3: I kind of.

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Speaker 4: It's when before we started this tour, I hadn't seen

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Speaker 4: the film for you know, quite a long time. And

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Speaker 4: it's not like I sort of sit there watching what

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Speaker 4: there is a there is a movie where some an

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Speaker 4: older actor sits and watches their old their old films

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Speaker 4: endlessly through the night. I'm not one of those people,

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Speaker 4: but but it.

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Speaker 3: Is, it is.

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Speaker 4: Jack has just been glorious to revisit the film and

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Speaker 4: to to share memories of making the film and to

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Speaker 4: see it again in this new iteration is very exciting

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Speaker 4: and rewarding.

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Speaker 1: And you and Tom Burlanson are here with it A right,

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Speaker 1: you're in the audience a lot. Well, well you're on

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Speaker 1: the stage, I should say.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we're on the stage and we talk to

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Speaker 4: the audience with the well, we have a conversation for

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Speaker 3: And we share memories and stories.

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Speaker 4: Anecdotes really about the film making process and our own

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Speaker 4: personal kind of feelings and experiences.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's fun, Sigarette. What do you think it

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Speaker 2: is about the Man from Snow River? You know that

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Speaker 2: stayed so fondly in people's memories and hearts all these years.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the movie now is quite some time ago,

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Speaker 2: but the story is an old story and it just

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Speaker 2: it lives on, doesn't it. In Australiana.

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Speaker 4: There are lots of reasons, I think Russell. I mean, originally,

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Speaker 4: based on loosely on the Banjo Patterson ballad, which everybody

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Speaker 3: A lot of people knew before.

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Speaker 4: The film was ever made. They knew that ballad, know

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Speaker 4: the work of Patterson. So it was a stroke of

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Speaker 4: genius really to kind of to do this kind of

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Speaker 3: So that's part of it that I.

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Speaker 4: Think initially captured people's imaginations. But I think the film

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Speaker 4: somehow had this struck at just the right time, struck

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Speaker 4: Australians really had not seen that kind of that countryside,

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Speaker 4: the dreadful Alpine region of Victoria depicted on film in

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Speaker 4: such a beautiful way. A lot of that country was

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Speaker 3: It was a it's a.

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Speaker 4: Very romantic story. It's it delivers on what it sets

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Speaker 4: It was interesting when we first screened the film before

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Speaker 4: people were coming out saying it made them feel so proud,

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Speaker 4: and that was something that perhaps I hadn't expected. So

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Speaker 4: things that struck cause with people that we couldn't have anticipated.

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Speaker 4: And no one ever knows what, you know, how film's

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Speaker 2: And it was good timing too, because there was a

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Speaker 2: time there when the Australian cinema was going through a

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Speaker 2: bit of a renaissance, really, wasn't it. I mean, there

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Speaker 2: were some big movies around the early eighties that and

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Speaker 4: They did, and it opened that up, which was well,

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Speaker 4: it helped to open that up for a long long time.

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Speaker 4: To know, it was the biggest box office you know,

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Speaker 4: the biggest box office movie in Australian history, bar.

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Speaker 3: None including an international film. So it did.

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Speaker 4: It really kind of captured people's imaginations and it did make.

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Speaker 3: Them feel proud that we could make movies ourselves.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well it was and you know you say it

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Speaker 1: was the early eighties. It was a period in Australian

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Speaker 1: cinema where I think it really became Australian. I feel

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Speaker 1: as though some of those seventies movies still had a

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Speaker 1: doesn't get any more quintessential than the Victorian high Country

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Speaker 1: and this, you know what we were seeing, what we

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Speaker 4: And you had everything like that. You wouldn't make a

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Speaker 4: film like that today because it is It is a film.

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Speaker 3: Of its time.

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Speaker 4: There's something about it that that's why it's become a classic,

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Speaker 4: because it captures a moment in time and a moment

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Speaker 4: in Australian filmmaking history that I think will perhaps never

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Speaker 4: be repeated in just that way. That and have many

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Speaker 4: other elements, and that is perfectly fine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you remember where you were when you got

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Speaker 1: the call to say that you got the role of

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Speaker 1: Jessica Harrison.

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Speaker 4: Well, I didn't get a call. Actually, it was a

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Speaker 4: conversation because I was working with the director, the late

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Speaker 3: Miller, not Ma.

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Speaker 4: He's known as he is known as affectionately as.

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Speaker 3: Noddy and or Snowy George.

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Speaker 4: Okay, and because he's not to be confused with mad

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Speaker 4: Max George Miller. But George and I had done a

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Speaker 4: few pros already, a couple of projects at least I

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Speaker 4: think at that time, and I was working with him

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Speaker 4: on a mini series and he just made this proposition

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Speaker 4: on one lunchtime and I said, great, I'm in.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yes, I happen to be.

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Speaker 4: I was lucky enough to be the first person, first

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Speaker 4: cast member involved with it with the film.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's fantastic. Well it is next, as I said,

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Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday, April twenty six and April twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: You can get your tickets through Ticketmaster Sigurd Thornton. It

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Speaker 1: is always lovely to catch up with you.

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Speaker 3: Likewise, Lisa and Russell, thank.

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Speaker 2: You very much, Secret John appreciate.

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Speaker 3: It's for you. Seeing you next week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I see you next week.

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Speaker 3: Any person late