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= February 19 =

Can somebody please identify the background score of this movie part?
shorturl.at/oERSW The background score that starts from 00.11.50 and lasts until 00.12.27 sounds like some anthem. First thought it could be a slow paced treatment of Communist Internationale but I doubt if it has anything to do with it. Can anybody help?--Narrativist (talk) 09:30, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Link please? Alansplodge (talk) 18:46, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I suspect that "shorturl.at/oERSW" thing is supposed to be the link. --←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:24, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * It resolves to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHt_MV86Aw&t=713s. While the music is purely instrumental, the caption 106% at 11:50, the melody itself and the shot of a Christian church make me think it may be the melody of an Easter hymn. --Lambiam 21:25, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Johnson composed the original music for the film, one of the first for which he wrote the score. Conceivably, this is an original tune composed for this film. --Lambiam 21:38, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The tune is Sandon by Charles Henry Purday (1799–1885), the usual melody for the hymn Lead, Kindly Light (YouTube clip is here). Alansplodge (talk) 14:59, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * According to our article, Lead, Kindly Light was "a favourite of Mahatma Gandhi" (not sure if that has any bearing, except that it's an Indian film). Alansplodge (talk) 15:06, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks to all for helping me. I had lost track of the the thread as no replies were coming for a few days. Thank you, all. --Narrativist (talk) 03:19, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Filming period for Two and a half men, season 1
It's surprisingly hard to research: What is the time period in which the episodes of Two and a Half Men (season 1) were filmed? More generally asked, is there a database or the like listing those timeframes for TV series? --KnightMove (talk) 20:21, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * In what sense? Each episode would have been filmed shortly before airing, so filming likely began August or September 2003 and ran through until April or May of 2004. There doesn't need to be much post-production like with a movie, so they needn't be filmed too far in advance. If you mean when did each individual episode get filmed, that kind of thing is probably not publicly available. Not because it's top secret, but just since it's something few people care about. You normally only see production details in cases where there's something of particular interest. For example, you can see Saturday Night Live's production schedule here. If there are books about the show, that might be your best bet. Matt Deres (talk) 15:28, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, thank you. --KnightMove (talk) 18:31, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
 * But in the other hand - it takes much longer to film the episodes than to screen them, doesn't it? Afaik only a few min of a TV series episode can be filmed per day. --KnightMove (talk) 12:45, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * No. That is generally true for movies and for dramatic TV shows, but generally not for sitcoms using multiple-camera setup, as TAAHM did. With that setup, multiple shots are filmed with every take, reducing time. Additionally, the show, like most other Chuck Lorre productions, was filmed in front of a live studio audience. Although re-shoots are a possibility, that usually means that the whole thing was filmed in one day, almost like a play, so that the audience reacts appropriately. Matt Deres (talk) 22:14, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * You live and learn - thank you very much! --KnightMove (talk) 04:41, 23 February 2022 (UTC)