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Here it is with AI upscaling.  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_5UC3ZDNU2wc6bW8due08A7t4i674fAo?usp=sharing 
 
Not perfect but makes it a little better.
2120583139_ep2_music_m320AIUpscaled.mp4

Okay I've decided I might as well compile a list of all known footage from all the original recording sessions. This is what i have so far:
 
Star Wars (1977)
 
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
 - Footage of the spotting sessions for 9m6-10m1 Carbon Freeze appears in the BBC "Star Wars Music by John Williams" documentary scattered near the beginning 
 - Footage of the recording sessions for 9m6-10m1 Carbon Freeze and 6m3 This is Not a Cave appears in the BBC "Star Wars Music by John Williams" documentary, the former at 16:21, and the latter at 52:00
 - More complete footage of the recording sessions of 6m3 This is Not a Cave appear in that Michel Parbot "The Making of ESB" documentary at 55:40
 - Footage from the Empire sessions was used to create fake sessions footage of ANH for the documentary "Empire of Dreams"
 
Return of the Jedi (1983)
 - Footage of the recording sessions for 4m4 Rev. Jabba's End appear in the June 16th, 1983 episode of 20/20 in a segment on John Williams "Music of the Jedi"
 
The Phantom Menace (1999)
 - Footage of the spotting sessions for the Darth Maul fight appears in the Movie Music webisode
 - Footage of the recording sessions for 6m7 New The Greal Dual (recorded February 10th, 1999) appears in The Beginning dvd documentary
 - Additional footage of the recording sessions for 6m7 New The Greal Dual (recorded February 10th, 1999) appears in the Movie Music webisode
 - unknown footage from the recording sessions appears in the Duel of the Fates music video
 
Attack of the Clones (2002)
 - Footage of the spotting sessions for the first zam cues appear in the Music EPK
 - Footage of recording sessions for some of the zam chase cues appear in the Across the Stars music video
 - Footage of recording sessions for some of the zam chase cues appear in the Music EPK
 - Footage of the recording sessions for Across the Stars appear in the Music EPK
 - unknown footage from the recording sessions appears in the Across the Stars music video
 
Revenge of the Sith (2005)
 - Footage of the recoding sessions of Battle of the Heroes  (recorded February 3rd, 2005) appears in the Endlessly Compelling featurette
 - unknown footage from the recording sessions appears in the Endlessly Compelling featurette
 - unknown footage from the recording sessions appears in Within a Minute around 1:09:40 (there's a clip of john williams saying they will start with 7m8, but I believe the rest of the footage is from a different cue, presumably one of the mustafar ones. Maybe either Heroes Collide or The Boys Continue)
 

No, I've never seen anything above the 320x180.
 
I've gone ahead and uploaded this version to YouTube:
 

I wasn't even referring to Ashoka or Boba.  One of the major threads of Season 2 was the other mandalorian faction led by Starbuck from BSG, and how they want to take back Mandalore.  BOBF even continued this thread by the Armorer sending him to Mandalore to go in the caves or whatever.
 
All of this continues on from cartoon shows I've never seen

Solo makes me mad on so many levels. Starting with: I love the movie. I don't like it as much as Rogue One but I like it better than any of the Sequel movies.
 
But also: They didn't market it at all. The Rocketeer had better marketing. "We can't market anything until the previous film is out of the theaters." "Yeah? How far apart are they?" "Five months." "Oh."
 
Then there's the issue of the movie they started out making vs. what we got. Who knows?
 
The thing is, Solo is pretty much the kind of Star Wars movie that I want to see. Space ships, chases, blaster battles, set somewhere around Star Wars, doesn't involve the Skywalkers or (if they can help it) space wizards.

I have the original MOV file that was hosted on that starwars.com site.  Unfortunately, it was available only at 320x180 with a frame rate of 10FPS, with significant visual and aural compression artifacts.  Doing a bit of digging, you can find the MOV file on archive.org:
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20060110163323if_/http://starwars.apple.com:80/ep2/dvd/ep2_music_m320.mov  
Copy/paste that text into a browser window.  You may get the following error message depending on the browser you're using:  "No video with supported format and MIME type found."  Don't worry.  In your browser, go to "File", "Save Page as" (or similar function) and you should be able to save the MOV file to your computer.
 
BTW, this thread reminds me that I need to rent a U-matic playback unit to transfer this goodie I picked up on eBay a while back...
 
 
It's running time is longer than the "Movie Music" segment available at starwars.com, so I'm curious to know what this featurette entails.

I found more footage from the AOTC sessions:
 
 
Based on the text at the beginning I'm guessing this came from some kind of Press Kit. Interesting they put so much effort into making this to not even release it to the public officially

I found more footage from the AOTC sessions:
 
 
Based on the text at the beginning I'm guessing this came from some kind of Press Kit. Interesting they put so much effort into making this to not even release it to the public officially

I think we need a documentary series compiling all of this footage together and in the highest definition possible.

This appears to be sourced from a VHS tape or other analog source. The same featurette was also available on starwars.com back at the time of the film’s release and on a DVD-ROM of some sort as well, as I recall. While the Episodes I and III music featurettes are still available at starwars.com, the Episode II one is not.

Hmm maybe that footage wasn't all filmed by the BBC after all. I just learned of the existence of this other documentary by French cameraman Michel Parbot which most people thought never existed until it made its way onto the internet in 2018:
 
At 55:40 here you can see a lot of the same recording sessions footage, but without any voiceover. There's some footage here that isn't in the other documentary and vice versa

In other news, I just figured out that "Willow's Theme" is not just extremely similar to the end credits - it's literally just an edit of the end credits!!
 
OST 6 Willow's Theme
0:00-2:44 = OST 8 Willow The Sorcerer 7:33-10:16 2:44-2:45 = OST 8 Willow The Sorcerer 7:33-7:34 again 2:45-3:08 = OST 8 Willow The Sorcerer 8:15-8:38 again 3:08-end = OST 8 Willow The Sorcerer 10:42-11:27  
How about that!  In all these years, I had no idea!!
 
So all along, the OST album only had 69 minutes of original score over 7 tracks, with 4 minutes of repeated material combined to make an 8th track.  Who knew?

Most cars and computers no longer come with cd drives as well. 
If you want one nowadays you have to explicitly buy an optical drive, which probably isn't something most people do

I haven't seen The Bad Batch, but according to the video below it has the same plot structure as Mandalorian, Boba Fett and Obi-Wan: a veteran warrior hardened by years of battle (or a group of them, in TBB's case) learns to take care of someone else, a child in Mando, Bad Batch and Obi-Wan, and the Tuskens in BOBF.
 
 
A lot of stories with great potential in the Star Wars galaxy and Disney prefers to tell the same story with slight variations. I wonder if Dave Filoni or someone at LF is a fan of The Last of Us...

It's being recorded by Shawn Murphy at Sony Scoring Stage as usual.

Except the animated series. Bad Batch and Clone Wars season 7 were good.

There are these:
This is from the ABC-TV News program, '20/20'. It features footage of the Abbey Road scoring sessions.
Also, 
This one has a brief clip of the Olympic Studio scoring sessions but no original audio on that film.

https://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/34663-what-are-your-thoughts-on john-williams-new-theme-for-obi-wan/&do=findComment&comment=1893794

The most interesting thing in that interview is that he says they recorded 117 minutes of score for Willow.  The 108 minutes on the Intrada CD plus the remaining 6 1/2 minutes of music heard in the film that isn't on it means there still remains 2 1/2 minutes that cannot be heard anywhere (if the 117 minute number is accurate).  It's most likely just full versions of the tavern source music that isn't heard in full in the final film, but you never know!

An article about recording of the score from 1988.
 
Willow: The Recording of a Film Soundtrack Music
 
Karol
 
 

They may have been in the process of spooling through the tape for the right timecode while Williams rehearsed the choir.

It's kind of nuts how many people in various groups I'm seeing complaining about the score all over the internet. Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. No matter where you go it's all people saying how disappointed they were with the score overall, but often bringing up how Ross' music was the only saving grace.
 
I was expecting this score to be more divisive than anything, but it's not. Everyone just seems so disappointed, particularly with Holt's music.
 
It's interesting because I've seen several very small but vocal subgroups saying how much they'd want a Zimmer/RCP Star Wars score... well, here it is, and almost nobody is defending it. And even the tiny amount of people defending it still speak of disappointment in many areas of the score. The music isn't terrible, it's just not Star Wars.
 
I know JWFan gets a fair amount of attention, and we have a lot of industry insiders here, well IF ANYONE FROM LUCASFILM/DISNEY IS READING THIS: just know that this score is definitive proof that a Hans Zimmer / RCP / contemporary / modern-styled score WILL NOT WORK for Star Wars. We've been saying it from the beginning, and here is your evidence.
 
Star Wars' music was never meant to be "modern". That is the entire reason George Lucas wanted a classical score from the very beginning, even when the studios were pressuring him to do otherwise.

Is there any part of the show that did?

No, it's not from the Empire sessions. It's footage from the mid- or late-1980s, more likely from a concert rehearsal at an unspecified location.

This is Phantom Menace footage from February 10th 1999. Choral cues recorded on this day included all of the Darth Sidious/Emperor material (2m1, 2m4, 3m1, 5m8), the Duel of the Fates cues (6m4a, 6m7, 7m3) and Qui-Gon's funeral (7m1a).
 
There was another choral session on the evening of February 16th including the Otoh Gunga material (1m7, 1m8, 1m9).
 
On the subject of the Empire session footage, I am confident that the original 16mm film still exists. A high definition transfer was used for some of the Rise of Skywalker documentary material.