<P> It was an American radio guy who pointed it out to me . It's such a non-starter, a complete load of eyewash . I tried it for the first time about two years ago . One of my fiancée's kids had a copy of the video, and I thought I had to see what it was all about . I was very disappointed . The only thing I noticed was that the line "balanced on the biggest wave" came up when Dorothy was kind of tightrope walking along a fence . One of the things any audio professional will tell you is that the scope for the drift between the video and the record is enormous; it could be anything up to twenty seconds by the time the record's finished . And anyway, if you play any record with the sound turned down on the TV, you will find things that work . </P> <P> Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason told MTV in 1997, "It's absolute nonsense . It has nothing to do with The Wizard of Oz . It was all based on The Sound of Music ." </P> <P> Film critic Richard Roeper published his assessment of the phenomenon, which he referred to as "Dark Side of Oz ." Roeper concluded that while the band may have had the resources and technical know - how to produce an alternative film soundtrack, undergoing such an endeavor would have been highly impractical . Roeper also noted the technical issue of the roughly 43 - minute Dark Side of the Moon being short compared to the 101 - minute The Wizard of Oz . </P> <P> In the book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd, Nick Mason noted that the band was becoming proficient at creating movie soundtracks by the time they started the recording of The Dark Side of the Moon, and that they even interrupted their work on the album so they could score yet another film . He explained the technical process that Pink Floyd used to score movies when he wrote about the recording of the 1972 Obscured by Clouds movie soundtrack: </P>

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