Travels With Father Bookends (Princeton, June 1919)/Winds of Change - Part 2
TalonCard said:
Don't worry too much over it--the Travels with Father bookends were edited together with new footage to create a brand new episode, which was then joined with another episode as Winds of Change for the DVDs. I still haven't seen that one, but supposedly the scenes with Indy, Nancy, and Henry Sr. are all more or less intact...
Even though the bookends for ?Travels With Father? were only about 11 mins. total,
it?s disheartening to discover that + 1:45 mins. were cut for the DVD. What?s missing?
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The LOGO, the GREAT MUSIC & several shots of the New York harbor sequence:
9 secs.
Aerial fly-by of Statue of Liberty with ship and Manhattan in the background.
(The new one is different and the beautiful opening music w/logo is gone!
)
7 secs.
Close-up of Indy alone on deck worriedly looking over the rail-side toward home.
7 secs.
Another close-up of Indy at the rail.
2 secs.
Large group of ship passengers waving their hats.
6 secs.
Direct, side shot of ship with Manhattan skyline in the background.
6 secs.
Tugboats pushing ship toward pier.
4 secs.
Large group of people whistling & waving on landing dock (Pier 37).
6 secs.
Indy coming down the gangway. He stops and hestitates , then smiles before continuing.
Because of the new love story with Amy, the parts with Indy returning home alone are gone. Shame, since they make it a much more sad & effective scene.
Flanery?s acting is great in this shot. The look on his face really evokes the anxiety and apprehension Indy must feel, knowing he?ll soon face his father.
Here he is, having been through so much, returning home all alone, with no one to greet him. The original is deeper. The anticipation of reuniting with his
father gets watered down in the DVD. Although brief, the missing parts & music create more tension than all the pertaining dialogue in ?Winds of Change?.
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4 secs.
Nancy looks back at Indy as she continues her walk. Deleted!
Shot of the Jones' house. Deleted!
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7 secs.
In both versions, immediately after Indy puts down the photo of his mother, it cuts to father & son?s 1st dinner.
In the original, Henry Sr. takes a spoonful of greens from a dish and puts it on his plate. Immersed in his book
in complete silence, he puts the spoon back in the dish.
The DVD has Henry just eating/reading and the lid is on the dish. Watch when Indy says, ?It?s good to be home?.
The dish is uncovered and near his plate. Good to know Junior is eating his veggies! Anyway, the above shot is gone.
(In Travels With Father, this shot is followed immediately by the ?apology/Athens conversation scene?
so, until now, I hadn?t noticed that their clothes changed in the middle of the scene.
)
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Parts of the dinner conversations are also missing from ?Winds of Change?. They?ve been rearranged & patched up
using some editing tricks and audio overdubs. Here?s a comparison (
overdubs in bold italics):
Winds of Change DVD
Indy: You?re just mad ?cause I
left for the war without discussing it with you.
Henry Sr.: That subject is closed.
Indy: It?s true. Why can?t you admit it? You?re still mad at me and you?re going to go on being mad at me, aren?t you?
You?re never going to let it go!
Indy?s lips don?t match the dialogue so this is an obvious overdub. What does he originally say that Henry Sr.
refuses to discuss? Since this part is not in the TwF bookends, the hidden line is a mystery. If not the war,
what could this sensitive subject have been? Any lip-readers out there who can figure it out?
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Travels With Father
Indy: Father, there?s something I?d like to say. I?d like to apologize?for going off to the war in Europe without telling you.
Henry Sr.: We will not discuss it further.
Winds of Change DVD
Indy: Father, there?s something I?d like to say. I?d like to apologize?about the other night. Things I said, the way I acted.
I was way out of line and I?m sorry. Guess that?s it.
Henry Sr.: We will not discuss it further.
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Travels With Father
Henry Sr.: We?d gone to Greece, if I remember, straight after our visit to Russia.
Indy: That?s right.
Henry Sr.: Where you ran away.
Indy: No?yeah?I guess I?d run away?Why was that, though, I ? that I ran away? I don?t really recall?
Henry Sr.: I recall perfectly. We were staying in the country with some friends of mine who very kindly invited us
to their daughter?s wedding?Except you took into your head to disregard the rules of correct behaviour?
(Dissolve to the dancing/wedding reception in Russia)
(Dissolve from the father & son hugging in Greece)
Indy: It was the only time I could ever remember you actually hugged me?and it felt great.
That was the best time I ever had with you. For awhile there, just?just for that moment,
you really were my dad.
Winds of Change DVD
Henry Sr.: We?d gone to Greece, if I remember, straight after our visit to Russia
and we got stuck in the monastery?s wooden lift.
Indy: That?s right. Best time I ever had with you.
When we finally escaped up the rope I remember you picked me up and just
held me really tight. It was the only time I could ever remember you actually hugged me?and it felt great. For awhile there, just?
just for that moment, you really were my dad.
2 secs.
Indy saying, ?Father, there?s...? (there?s something I?d like to say)
(DVD has a view of the house at night.)
3 secs.
Henry Sr. acknowledges Indy?s apology with a slight nod of the head. (Longer cut which precedes ?We will not discuss it further.?
This is when Indy says ?for going off to the war in Europe without telling you.?)
4 secs.
?What more is there to say?? close-up on Henry Sr. is gone!
(Replaced by an over-the-shoulder shot with a new delivery by Lloyd Owen.)
2 secs.
Shot of Henry Sr. reacting when Indy says, ?We never have been.?
(Replaced by a longer shot of Indy.)
2 secs.
Shot of Henry Sr. saying, ?In Athens??
(Replaced by a longer shot of Indy.)
31 secs.
Henry Sr.'s segue into the Russian episode
2 secs.
A shot of Henry Sr. trying to look at his son but flicking his eyes down in shame.
2 secs.
Indy saying, ?That was the? (best time I ever had with you.)
and
finally...
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4 secs.
Shot of a girl in white dress & man walking by the Jones' house. Car front right. Deleted!
Other shots lasted a few seconds longer. Won?t say much about them other than there's
certainly a lot to mention for just over 10 minutes of footage!