Episode 58 show notes: The Silent Film Music Podcast

Episode 58 Show Notes: “Potato salad…!”

Recording scores for streaming and home video is different from a live performance

• Round-up of activity for Undercrank Productions
• Borzage, Lon Chaney, Volume 2, Raymond Griffith, Tom Mix: Sky High, Accidentally Preserved Volume 5
• Also Rin TIn Tin: Clash of the Wolves for Kino-Lorber
• Danny Kaye in Wonder Man: “Potato Salad!” 
• TCM Film Festival – Enjoying the enthusiasm of the audiences
• Jacqueline Stewart introduces Clash of the Wolves – The TCM audience “got it” right away.
• Nord Keyboards
• Encouraging other venues – book Clash of the Wolves – it will play well everywhere
• (Shout out to The Silent Comedy Watch Party!)
• Show at the Town School for kindergarten students
• Oranges and Lemons with Stan Laurel
• The ease of understanding simple slapstick provides a great entrance to the Silent Film Universe
• Coming out on July 25 from Fantagraphics: ERNIE IN KOVACSLAND
• Why did Ernie pick the particular recording he picked for his blackout gags?
• Original 1928 recording of Die Moritat from Der Dreigroschenoper
• Lotte Lenya singing Seerauber Jenny
• 1954 cast recording of The Threepenny Opera – first recording of English “Mack The Knife”
• Louis Armstrong – Mack The Knife
• Ella Fitzgerald – Ella in Berlin – Mack The Knife
• Bobby Rydell – Mack The Knife
• Philips Records – First stereo recording of Der Dreigroschenoper in 1958 with Moritat
• The Ernie Kovacs Collection from Shout! Factory
• Here’s Edie (Region 2)
• 10th Anniversary of Undercrank Productions: 10% discount for the month of June 2023
• Ben became the inventory of the classic-film Kickstarter due to a number of factors:
• Availability of titles, whether obscure or restored;
• The advent of MOD, eliminating need for inventory;
• Availability of a first-rate designer, Marlene Weissman, who makes the product look professional
• Availability and promotion of Ben as an accompanist
• Learned how to author discs; how to work out deals with film sources, most notably the Library of Congress; how to create earned publicity in lieu of paid advertising
• The Undercrank Library is a great way to fill out your library and entertain your family and friends
• The films look as good as they ever have, including the original tinting scheme in the Tom Mix film Sky High. Ben explains color grading in the restoration of black and white films
• Wings at the Williams Center in Rutherford NJ
• Sign-off

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