Episode 56 Show Notes: Music for unconventional silent films and other purposes
Replacing the podcast’s Theme Song:
- “Those Keystone Komedy Kops” by Raymond Walker and Charles McCarron, writers of…
- “Poor Pauline” sung by Billy Murray
- “Those Charlie Chaplin Feet”
- Let’s Go Into A Picture Show CD Compilation curated by Ron Magliosi
- Nitrateville episode 91 discussing the restoration of The Unknown with Peter Bagrov of the George Eastman Museum, Anthony L’Abbate and Gordon Nelson. This episode also includes an interview with Lara Gabrielle, author of The Captain of Her Soul, a new definitive biography of Marion Davies.
- Holding back in accompaniment to allow the film and Chaney’s performance to take over
- Avoiding unwanted laughter
- Count Orlok carrying his casket through town
Ernie Kovacs and Haydn (not)
- Promoting “Ernie in Kovacsland” from Fantagraphics in July 2023
- Take A Good Look on DVD
- Ben discusses the string quartet music used in Ernie Kovacs’s Dutch Master Cigar commercials
- Episode 44 of this podcast in which we discuss changing practices in music performance in connection with Chaplin’s City Lights.
- The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection
Keeping the Combatants clear in Wings
- Performance at Packard Campus Theatre, Library of Congress
- Orientation of battle forces – limited use of closeups make progress of the battle hard to follow
Recent and upcoming silent film shows:
- Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, NJ
- Union County Performing Arts Center
- Kansas Silent Film Festival
- The Captain of Her Soul – biography of Marion Davies by Lara Gabrielle
- Little Old New York from Undercrank Productions
- Silent Clowns Film Series
- The Silent Comedy Watch Party
- Ben’s upcoming shows
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