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Confusion
Ted Obrien was understandably confused by this confusion,
and so he confusedly
told us a little bit,
and that got me confused, too,
because, after all, this is all so bloody confusing:
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After it was on PBS, Janus got control over it & transfered the sound to a Brandon print.
They dont mention BBC as the creators of the soundtrack.
The print used on PBS was a really nice & used 35mm.
The print used by Janus was bad so all they did was transfer the sound to a bad print.
In addition, by speeding it up they changed the pitch of the BBC sound making it worse.
Janus could not leave well enough alone.
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It is so frustrating that Ted is no longer around.
I wish I could tell him that this was not a matter of Janus not leaving well enough alone.
Janus simply loaned its logo to PBS for a one-time transmission of the Eckart Jahnke edition, per contract.
Janus’s contract with EMI_Elstree expired,
and so it licensed a different version of the film from the Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde.
That’s all. Nothing more.
It would be most useful to locate a copy of the Brandon 16mm edition of 1983
as well as a copy of the Voyager Company’s VHS edition.
They seem now to be impossible to find.