Films with dual soundtracks

[SesameMike]

Ever notice that a device used in some of the older films was to have two different soundtracks, one played after the other? There was usually a second or two of silence between them.

-- Ostriches. A musical piece accompanied the views of the animals. Then the ostriches started running across the plain to a catchy faster-paced musical score.

-- Pigs. A quick-picking musical score that I can only describe as a cross between dulcimer and banjo played while we saw a bunch of pigs running across a farm. Then, instead of music, we heard the live sounds of the pigs oinking and snorting. That led to a few other farm animal sounds and scenes, such as sheep baa-ing, and even a single dog bark towards the end.

-- Pizza. A slow Italian musical score played while we watched the pizza guy shape and toss the crust in slo-mo. A wild and crazy fast musical piece played while the rest of the pizza was made, in fast-motion.

-- Eggs. A soft voice was sort of just humming as we watched a woman in a hen house pick up eggs laid by the chickens. Suddenly the music turned fast with the sound of a loud fiddler in what sounded like a square dance band. They started singing "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" as we watched eggs on conveyor belts being loaded into crates.

But there were two others like this where I can only remember the second part.

-- This second part began suddenly with the clopping of a horse's feet on pavement. People were in a buggy being pulled by the horse, and the music was a steel-drum rendition of a song that had a "Skip to my Lou my darlin'" phrase at the end.

-- The second part here began with a shot of a front-loader washing machine (with a round glass door) in action, as a kid off-screen started singing "dum-de de-de-de, dum-de de-de-de..." This may have just been a series of scenes from a rural setting.

 

[Ziffel]

-- Pigs. A quick-picking musical score that I can only describe as a cross between dulcimer and banjo played while we saw a bunch of pigs running across a farm. Then, instead of music, we heard the live sounds of the pigs oinking and snorting. That led to a few other farm animal sounds and scenes, such as sheep baa-ing, and even a single dog bark towards the end.

-- Eggs. A soft voice was sort of just humming as we watched a woman in a hen house pick up eggs laid by the chickens. Suddenly the music turned fast with the sound of a loud fiddler in what sounded like a square dance band. They started singing "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" as we watched eggs on conveyor belts being loaded into crates.

But there were two others like this where I can only remember the second part.

-- This second part began suddenly with the clopping of a horse's feet on pavement. People were in a buggy being pulled by the horse, and the music was a steel-drum rendition of a song that had a "Skip to my Lou my darlin'" phrase at the end.

Just a bit earlier today, I posted in a Sesame Street films thread about both the eggs one and the pigs one. I was scanning that thread and others for those two and didn't find anything. Now I just came across your post here from last month and see you mentioned both of them!
Yeah, the music in the first part of the pigs one I had a hard time describing too, so I simply called it "peculiar"! And I had forgotten how the eggs one began. I only remembered it from the part where the man sings, "Which came first the chicken or the egg?" through the end where he says, "the chicken or the egg (stretched out to sound like ay ay ay g)."
The horse and steel drum one you mentioned began on a beach with a man and some kids walking along. He was hitting the drum in 3 beat rythyms and then points out to the kids that rythym is all around them, like the waves breaking in rythym and people walking and breathing in rythym. Then it switches to the part that you recall. I've seen this one mentioned in some other threads here. Like so many classic Sesame Street clips, this one is a neat one to listen to.

 

[SesameMike]

Ever notice that a device used in some of the older films was to have two different soundtracks, one played after the other? There was usually a second or two of silence between them.

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-- The second part here began with a shot of a front-loader washing machine (with a round glass door) in action, as a kid off-screen started singing "dum-de de-de-de, dum-de de-de-de..." This may have just been a series of scenes from a rural setting.

Well whattya know. This one's on the DVD!! It's actually part of the original sales pitch. And so another 3-decade-plus-old mystery goes...

 

[Andy]

Let's not forget the "beginning/end" comparison films. They selected production music cues that seemed to have a natural break in them that they were able to use to stop the film and show the beginning of the action. Then, they'd speed up the film while the main part of the cue would play, stop the film and the music, show the end, and play the final part of the cue.

When I was a kid, I thought the portion of the cue at the start of the cue was a different piece. I learned not too long after that this was not the case.