1 Season
12 Episode
Great Film Composers: The Music of the Movies - Season 1 Episode 1 The Birth of the Film Score
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.
- Year: 2020
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Sky Arts
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