Lee Ranaldo to score short film Tombaugh and the Telescope

jico. · 08.27.2007, 12:01 PM

Clyde Tombaugh is a 22 year old farm-boy in 1928 Kansas. He is in Limbo between High School and College and works with his father, harvesting corn. When Clyde's Uncle Lee brings over a small telescope, Clyde sees a universe of opportunity. He hopes to attend Kansas State, where he will study Astronomy. Until then, Clyde will teach himself as much as he can by observing the night sky.

Clyde works hard on the vast Tombaugh Farm to build his own telescope that will see further than anything his Uncle Lee has ever used. He completes the tool and attempts to use it to sketch neighboring celestial bodies. But it is a failure. Clyde's father reminds him that he is from a family of distinguished farmers and that telescope-building may just be a novelty. Nevertheless, Uncle Lee agrees to aid Clyde in his pursuit of a second, and more carefully planned telescope. Clyde studies trigonometry, the studies of Galileo and Newton, and many books and magazines on astronomy. Finally, he completes his new home made telescope and is ready to make sketches of the planets. But just as fate would have it, a freak hail storm destroys the family's full harvest of corn. Clyde's big college dreams are crushed as well, as the harvest is the family's only income.

Clyde is left on the devastated farm with nothing but his new telescope and his imagination. Feeling isolated and tiny amidst the land, Clyde makes detailed sketches of Saturn's rings, the moons of Jupiter, and many other distant bodies. Clyde sends them to Lowell Observatory in Arizona, the only Planetary Observatory in the country, to see if they might have advice for Clyde. Much to his surprise, they would like to hire Clyde as a junior astronomer in a search for an elusive ninth planet predicted beyond Neptune. Clyde's father eventually sees Clyde's real merit as an astronomer and the family supports Clyde's big move away from the Kansas farm he's known all his life.

produced by Francisco Saavedra and Jarell Green
director of photography: Josh Gitersonke Sound Design: Gilbert Baker
written and Directed by: Steven Andrew Garcia

original score by Lee Ranaldo

http://myspace.com/tombaughandthetelescope

Pessimist · 08.27.2007, 03:29 PM

Orchestrated guitar noise? This is a godsend! I hope that's what it is.

greenlight · 08.27.2007, 04:17 PM

orchestrated guitar noise - that is what he's good in.

really looking forward this one. thanks for info.
this year is just like so many sy related releases, isn't it?

atsonicpark · 08.28.2007, 12:34 AM

How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???

08.27.2007, 12:01 PM	#1
jico. expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,417	Clyde Tombaugh is a 22 year old farm-boy in 1928 Kansas. He is in Limbo between High School and College and works with his father, harvesting corn. When Clyde's Uncle Lee brings over a small telescope, Clyde sees a universe of opportunity. He hopes to attend Kansas State, where he will study Astronomy. Until then, Clyde will teach himself as much as he can by observing the night sky. Clyde works hard on the vast Tombaugh Farm to build his own telescope that will see further than anything his Uncle Lee has ever used. He completes the tool and attempts to use it to sketch neighboring celestial bodies. But it is a failure. Clyde's father reminds him that he is from a family of distinguished farmers and that telescope-building may just be a novelty. Nevertheless, Uncle Lee agrees to aid Clyde in his pursuit of a second, and more carefully planned telescope. Clyde studies trigonometry, the studies of Galileo and Newton, and many books and magazines on astronomy. Finally, he completes his new home made telescope and is ready to make sketches of the planets. But just as fate would have it, a freak hail storm destroys the family's full harvest of corn. Clyde's big college dreams are crushed as well, as the harvest is the family's only income. Clyde is left on the devastated farm with nothing but his new telescope and his imagination. Feeling isolated and tiny amidst the land, Clyde makes detailed sketches of Saturn's rings, the moons of Jupiter, and many other distant bodies. Clyde sends them to Lowell Observatory in Arizona, the only Planetary Observatory in the country, to see if they might have advice for Clyde. Much to his surprise, they would like to hire Clyde as a junior astronomer in a search for an elusive ninth planet predicted beyond Neptune. Clyde's father eventually sees Clyde's real merit as an astronomer and the family supports Clyde's big move away from the Kansas farm he's known all his life. produced by Francisco Saavedra and Jarell Green director of photography: Josh Gitersonke Sound Design: Gilbert Baker written and Directed by: Steven Andrew Garcia original score by Lee Ranaldo http://myspace.com/tombaughandthetelescope
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08.27.2007, 03:29 PM	#2
Pessimist little trouble girl Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 53	Orchestrated guitar noise? This is a godsend! I hope that's what it is. __________________ D.B. Cooper is alive, and probably planted those fucking bills to throw off the scent.
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08.27.2007, 04:17 PM	#3
greenlight invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,131	orchestrated guitar noise - that is what he's good in. really looking forward this one. thanks for info. this year is just like so many sy related releases, isn't it?
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08.28.2007, 12:34 AM	#4
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? __________________
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