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"Lego Star Wars - Starring John Williams" was first shown at The Hollywood Bowl in August 2013. It was produced, written and performed by Jon and Al Kaplan. Animation was by Rosana van der Meer, Gabriel Costa Rodrigues and Thiago Calçado, with animation produced by Pete Levin.

Thanks, Jay. I edited my post above to focus more clearly on my question. I was mainly curious how live-to-picture concerts prepped older movies for playback. Since posting here, a friend with technical insight illuminated me (see FSM link above); and it is not so easy. There is a lot of artful sound level control, and audio filtration voodoo where separations did not exist. It's way over my head, but there is considerable skill involved, not to mention legal theatrical rights clearances. I was honored to catch "Jurassic Park" in this presentation, and it was invigorating to experience this terrific movie, and wonderful score, performed with great verve for such a huge and appreciative crowd.

Here's a blurb I posted this morning, at Film Score Monthly, about the Hollywood Bowl concert of Jurassic Park. Wrote this before discovering this thread; now edited my copy/paste, to focus on my main query: I had the pleasure of experiencing "Jurassic Park" with, I estimate, maybe 15,000 people at The Hollywood Bowl where the phenomenal crusader of film music David Newman conducted the LA Philharmonic playing John Williams' score live to picture Friday evening. It was terrific fun. I know, more recently, there have been many older live-to-picture shows – "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), "Casablanca" (1942), "Vertigo" (1958), "Psycho" (1960), "West Side Story" (1961), "Silent Running" (1973), "Jaws" (1975), "Close Encounters" (1977) and soon we will getting "Superman: The Movie" (1978).... So, how do they do that? Wikipedia says projection material is prepared with 'music suppressed,' but that sounds like hand-waving to me. In my experience, movies are not made that way. No one had any reason to make a music-free mix of their film, back in the day. What would be the point? And surely all the audio stems would have been long lost, resulting in most cases in mono magnetic or optical audio tracks, which would surely be impossible to pull apart. Bravo to all involved in producing these events, all over the world: https://filmconcertslive.com And what a phenomenal job David Newman does. He is a marvel. TL;DR edit: How do older films create music-free audio as playback for live orchestral performance?

Below is a link to a little video I made in tribute to the final launch of NASA's space shuttle Discovery, featuring a gorgeous piece of music by maestro Williams that I am sure members here will recognize: Discovery (4:22) The link includes NASA footage combined with amateur footage of the event shot using iPhone from a commercial airliner. In the last week, the iPhone footage has gone viral on YouTube with so far more than 3.8 million hits. When I sent the author my link, this was his reply: What an absolutely fantastic video! I think you couldn't have chosen a more perfect song to go along with all of that epic space shuttle footage. Very well done. Thanks for sharing. Ricard suggested I post the link here for members (thanks for your note, Ricard). Hope you enjoy!

My best wishes to you, Ricard. Joe NP: 'Sean' by Agatha (Minority Report)