Here's what I did today: I'd been wanting since...when, last summer??...to put on DEMENTIA 13, to watch it for the first time in years, and to find the Ronald Stein handwritten cue I have here thanks to BK and a most adventurous Indiegogo experience.
My copy of the film is a Roan Group laserdisc (I think there's a BD out there now), so, what happens but the LD player keeps ejecting the disc. Well, these things happen. I hadn't used it in who knows how long. And then I found the batteries in the remote were corroded so I tackled cleaning that up. It looks fine but still isn't working, so I sadly suspect the corrosion went deeper than I can access.
But back to the player. I just kept hitting 'play', and it finally did. I was able to use the remote to my receiver which, like many remotes, is a quasi-"universal" one that can operate various things. Fortunately, I'd programmed it for that long ago.
So the score is very atmospheric and helps the movie considerably, as one would expect from Mr. Stein, and I found the cue. It's played intact, as written on this manuscript, and this is a wonderful thing to have.
