Charlie Chaplin (1951)

Page scan 000324 from Charlie Chaplin

Record Details:

Title:
Charlie Chaplin
Date:
1951
Publisher:
New York : Henry Schuman, Inc.
Volume:
Charlie Chaplin
Leaf #:
000324
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski","Jeff Joseph"}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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cc 240 Sequence Music Cue 93. Tramp finds flower in gutter "La Violetera" (normal tempo) Cue 94. He turns to the girl in window of her shop laughing at him Violin Caprice (secondary girl . theme) Cue 95. Girl touches hand of tramp Tragic love theme Incidentally, sound effects are sparingly used, and then only for deliberately pointed effects, like the swallowed whistle, bells, the firing of revolvers, etc. Falls and blows are not accented by traps, nor are there the other tasteless noises by ratchets, etc., that have feaured so many "revivals with sound added," copied from the distracting technique of sound cartoons. Above all, the human voice is not employed, an artistic mistake too often made in attempts to bring old silent pictures "up to date." The haunting and pleasant Chaplin melodies in "City Lights" are pleasing in themselves, but the picture is one of the few extant examples of the silent medium's power when wedded to a musical score which properly interprets the action and heightens the emotion. The legend has grown that silent pictures were accompanied by a tinkling piano, either played thumpily in the so-called "nickelodeon" manner, or in a more dignified, but essentially neutral style. Actually, from 1914 on, every town of five thousand or over had at least a three-piece orchestra — or an organ. The Griffith and Fairbanks films, specials like "The Covered Wagon" and "The Big Pa