Knight Rider and TRON
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:36 am
Hello everyone,
I thought I would share with you a funny thing I came across while watching the movie Tron in preperation for its sequel Tron: Legacy coming out later this year.
As I was watching the movie which was groundbreaking for its time, I noticed right away as Sark's flagship hovered towards Flynn, Tron and Yori on the Solar Sailor that it featured a very familiar sound effect that is absolutely unmistakable...
That's right, turbo boost!
Unfortunately I cannot find a video clip online to show you the footage but if you have the Tron: 20th Anniversary edition dvd from Disney released in 2002, I have listed the timecode where the sound effect is heard.
1:10:49
1:19:30
1:22:40
All these sounds are heard when Sark's flagship hovers across the screen.
Now here's where it gets really interesting. Knight Rider premiered September 26th, 1982. Tron premiered July 8th, 1982. This means Tron came first. Additionally Tron was created by Walt Disney Studios which had no involvement with Universal on the movie. So the grand mystery is, how did Tron end up with the turbo boost sound effect if Knight Rider wasn't created yet?
Having done some research, as I understand it Universal used their existing sound library and created new sounds specifically for Knight Rider involving K.I.T.T.'s turbine engine, passbys, and other various effects by recording the sounds of helicoptor engines and other aircraft equipment to incorporate the idea that K.I.T.T. was designed based on aircraft technology and remixing them.
Did Universal's sound department borrow the unique sound for turbo boost from Disney's sound library? If that's true, how would that work if Universal claims to have created quite a bit of original sound effects exclusive for Knight Rider? You would think that would include turbo boost? The only other possibility is the sound effect was added later for the dvd release but I don't see the need for that on the part of Disney. I wonder which studio actually created the sound effect now.
If anyone has any incite into this, I'd love to know more about it.
=VK=
I thought I would share with you a funny thing I came across while watching the movie Tron in preperation for its sequel Tron: Legacy coming out later this year.
As I was watching the movie which was groundbreaking for its time, I noticed right away as Sark's flagship hovered towards Flynn, Tron and Yori on the Solar Sailor that it featured a very familiar sound effect that is absolutely unmistakable...
That's right, turbo boost!
Unfortunately I cannot find a video clip online to show you the footage but if you have the Tron: 20th Anniversary edition dvd from Disney released in 2002, I have listed the timecode where the sound effect is heard.
1:10:49
1:19:30
1:22:40
All these sounds are heard when Sark's flagship hovers across the screen.
Now here's where it gets really interesting. Knight Rider premiered September 26th, 1982. Tron premiered July 8th, 1982. This means Tron came first. Additionally Tron was created by Walt Disney Studios which had no involvement with Universal on the movie. So the grand mystery is, how did Tron end up with the turbo boost sound effect if Knight Rider wasn't created yet?
Having done some research, as I understand it Universal used their existing sound library and created new sounds specifically for Knight Rider involving K.I.T.T.'s turbine engine, passbys, and other various effects by recording the sounds of helicoptor engines and other aircraft equipment to incorporate the idea that K.I.T.T. was designed based on aircraft technology and remixing them.
Did Universal's sound department borrow the unique sound for turbo boost from Disney's sound library? If that's true, how would that work if Universal claims to have created quite a bit of original sound effects exclusive for Knight Rider? You would think that would include turbo boost? The only other possibility is the sound effect was added later for the dvd release but I don't see the need for that on the part of Disney. I wonder which studio actually created the sound effect now.
If anyone has any incite into this, I'd love to know more about it.
=VK=