<P> In a commentary track on DVD, interviewed by fellow director Nicholas Meyer, Wise stated that he wanted the film to appear as realistic and believable as possible, in order to drive home the motion picture's core message against armed conflict in the real world . Also mentioned in the DVD's documentary interview was the original title for the movie, "The Day the World Stops ." Blaustein said his aim with the film was to promote a "strong United Nations ." </P> <P> The music score was composed by Bernard Herrmann in August 1951, and was his first score after he moved from New York to Hollywood . Herrmann chose unusual instrumentation for the film: violin, cello, and bass (all three electric), two theremin electronic instruments (played by Dr. Samuel Hoffman and Paul Shure), two Hammond organs, a large studio electric organ, three vibraphones, two glockenspiels, marimba, tam - tam, two bass drums, three sets of timpani, two pianos, celesta, two harps, one horn, three trumpets, three trombones, and four tubas . Herrmann's notable advances in film scoring included Unison organs, tubas, piano, and bass drum, staggered tritone movement, and glissando in theremins, as well as exploitation of the dissonance between D and E-flat and experimentation with unusual overdubbing and tape - reversal techniques . By using the theremin Herrmann made one of music's first forays into electronic music, one year before Karlheinz Stockhausen and three years before Edgard Varèse, something that was overlooked by the classical elite . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> The Day the Earth Stood Still </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Film score by Bernard Herrmann </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Released </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Recorded </Th> <Td> August, 1951 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Soundtracks, Film score </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Length </Th> <Td> 35: 33 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Label </Th> <Td> 20th Century Fox </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Producer </Th> <Td> Nick Redman </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> The Day the Earth Stood Still </Th> </Tr>

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