Black Angel – Trevor Jones (1979) [URL]

Black Angel was a short film directed by Roger Christian that showed attached to select reels–possibly only in the UK–of The Empire Strikes Back in 1980.

Trevor Jones scored the 25-minute short film.

The composer’s website had a 26-second clip of the track "The Black Angel" up until recently. I used the Wayback Machine at archive.org to find the url to the audio source. Turns out the mp3 encoded at 160 Kbps is still hosted on that site!

For anyone interested, here is the link: http://trevorjonesfilmmusic.com/mp3s/Black%20Angel%201.mp3

The short film was considered lost, until last December when the original negative was discovered at Universal Studios. Read more about this news at Wired Magazine’s website: The Sword and Sorcery Precursor to Empire Strikes Back | Underwire | Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/12/20-12-pl_blackangel/)

Thanks!

Thanks for sharing this bit of trivia. I did not know about this short film and would now be curious to see it. Even though Roger Christian is the director behind "Battlefield Earth" he also won an Oscar for the art direction on "Star Wars" and made a wonderful film called "The Sender" (to which Trevor Jones also composed the music – great score and nice LaLaLand release – check it out if you can, it’s worth the money). So, thanks again for the info – I will now look out for the film and hope they release it again, now that it was re-discovered.

Thanks, cartney77, I will have to check out "The Sender". Was that ever released on album?

I will be updating this post in the coming months with a rip of the score from the short film. Thought I would do a bootleg of the score complete with custom cover art. Currently trying to remove as many sound effects and as much dialog as possible without harming the dynamic of the sound…

I’ll second the vote on The Sender. Terrific low budget horror film with a genuinely creepy performance by Zeljko Ivanek. And call me crazy, but Battlefield Earth isn’t much worse than most of the derivative space crap that Hollywood’s belched out over the past 30 years.