Pink Floyd : The Dark Side of the Rainbow

 The phenomenon 

caused by listening to

 the album

The Dark Side of the Moon , 

released by

Pink Floyd in 1973, 

and simultaneously watching

 the film

The Wizard of Oz ,

 released in 1939,

 is called

"The Dark Side of the Rainbow" .

 Some scenes in the film

 seem to coincide with

 the music of that album.

The title comes from combining

 the names

Somewhere over the Rainbow

original musical theme 

from the film

The Wizard of Oz 

with the title 

of the aforementioned 

Pink Floyd album.

History

In 1994,

 many Pink Floyd fans 

discussed the phenomenon

 on Usenet . 

However, even then, 

the question of who

 first associated

 the two works 

remained unanswered.

Since then , 

this supposed relationship 

has been mentioned

 several times in popular culture. 

In August 1995, 

a Fort Wayne , Indiana ,

 newspaper published

 the first article about this

 "synchronicity"

 in a mainstream media outlet.

 The newspaper 

cited the online message board alt.

music.pink-floyd.

 Soon after, 

many fans created websites 

discussing the matter 

and attempting

 to catalog

 and explain

 the corresponding moments.

 In April 1997, 

a Boston radio DJ 

discussed the topic on air, 

leading to further articles

 in mainstream media

 and its appearance on

MTV News . 

In July 2000,

 the cable television channel

Turner Classic Movies 

aired a version of

The Wizard of Oz 

with the album

Dark Side 

as its 

alternative soundtrack .

Fans have compiled over 

one hundred instances 

of alleged coincidences 

between the film and the album. 

This effect has been described 

as an example of synchronicity , 

defined by psychologist 

Carl Jung 

as a phenomenon 

in which two events

 "appear to be related,

 but this relationship cannot be explained

 by conventional mechanisms of causality."

^[Critics of the theory that the effect

 was deliberate point out that

 the phenomenon is a product of

 the mind's tendency to

 recognize patterns in chaos 

by discarding inconsistencies, 

an effect known in 

psychology as apophenia 

. According to this theory, 

enthusiasts of "

The Dark Side of the Rainbow"

 focus on the coincidences

 and ignore the more

 numerous inconsistencies.

Was it accidental or planned?

The members of Pink Floyd 

have repeatedly stated that

 the phenomenon is a coincidence. 

In an interview for

 Pink Floyd's 

25th anniversary,

 guitarist 

David Gilmour 

denied that the timing with

 "The Wizard of Oz" 

was intentional, stating:

"Some guy with too much time on his hands 

had this idea of ​​combining 

the film with

 The Dark Side of the Moon ."

In a 2002

 MTV special about

 Pink Floyd, 

the band also rejected any

 connection between

 the album and the film, 

saying there were 

no intentions

 for the album to be played in

 conjunction with the film.

Applying the effect

Whether real or imagined, 

this effect is created by

 pausing a copy of 

the original CD of 

"The Dark Side of the Moon" 

at the beginning,

 then pressing 'Play' 

on the DVD or 

VHS of the film

 "The Wizard of Oz"

 (NTSC version) 

with the sound off.

 The previously paused album 

should then be played when

The MGM lion

 roars for

 the third time.

List of visual synchronizations

Having clarified that intentional or unintentional synchronizations are perceived during "The Dark Side of the Rainbow," here is a list of the most important and notable ones:

• The film's first 'important' headline (from producer Mervyn LeRoy) coincides with the first chord of the album's first song, " Speak to me ".
• The beginning of On The Run coincides with the moment when Dorothy falls into a pile of straw.
• Dorothy appears to be looking at the sky (while singing " Over the Rainbow "), while helicopter sounds can be heard from the album .
• The beginning of " Time " (the chimes) occurs exactly when Miss Gulch appears with her bicycle .
• The scene where Toto escapes from the basket and returns home to Dorothy fits with half of the first and all of the second verse of "Time".
• When she meets Professor Marvel during "Time," David Gilmour can be heard singing "...home, home again. I like to be here while I can..." , coinciding with the plot of the film, in which Dorothy had to return home and Professor Marvel warned her about her adventure.
• The beginning of " The Great Gig in the Sky " starts with the hurricane scene . "The Great Gig in the Sky" means "The Great Dance in the Sky" in Spanish, as the house "danced" in the sky, caught in the hurricane.
• The beginning of " Money " coincides exactly with Dorothy's arrival in Munchkinland. This is the film's first color scene, something very expensive at the time, which is why many argue that the song title reflects this detail. "Money" is the first song on side B of the original vinyl record, so the color change is synchronized with the vinyl's change.
• The arrival of Glinda the Witch coincides with the beginning of the saxophone solo in "Money".
• During "Money", and after being encouraged by Glinda the Witch, the Munchkins come out to dance together and almost perfectly to David Gilmour's second guitar solo (the highest one).
• During " Brain Damage ," the line "...the lunatic is on the grass..." is heard . This could be associated with the fact that the Scarecrow was in the grass, was "lunatic" ( in the sense of lively and cheerful), and that the title of the work ("Brain Damage") has to do with the fact that the Scarecrow did not possess a brain .
• The futuristic sound, "Eclipse", begins right with the scene of The Tin Man.
• The Tin Man didn't have a heart , yet at the end of "Eclipse" a heartbeat is heard as Dorothy and the Scarecrow approach the Tin Man's chest where it was supposed to be. However, what was really happening was that the Tin Man was trying to talk to them.

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