Great Film Composers: The Music of the Movies Season 1 Episode 1 The Birth of the Film Score 2019
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The first edition looks at the decades before the first “talking picture”, 1927’s The Jazz Singer, with Al Jolson in dubious blackface. Movies were silent — or were they? If you were watching a Chaplin comedy in a “fleapit”, perhaps. In a fancier picture house you might enjoy a live pianist ad-libbing to what he saw on screen, and, by 1915, DW Griffith’s blockbuster The Birth of a Nation was distributed with a full score to be played by a live orchestra.
- Released: 2019-11-20
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
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