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Scoring a Motion Picture — Wagner 43
and from "Wedding Music" to "Happiness Music." The next important move is to find the music best suited to the action and mood of the picture without allowing the music to dominate the play, in which event it would distract the attention of the onlooker from the picture to the music. It is mostly sensitiveness of the adapter which enables him to balance the action on the screen with the music in the orchestra pit. Of especial assistance is the up-to-date motion picture machine which allows the film to run in either direction. If the music which has been selected does not fit the scene, the film may be reversed without taking it from the machine, and another selection tried.
Scoring a good picture is just as fascinating as composing. When a picture is scored, one has the satisfaction of knowing that he will have at least twenty-one orchestral performances the first week which is more than a well known composer of fame can ever expect. It may be interesting to know that no music is furnished with tha film. Our library consists of about 15,000 different selections with separate parts for each instrument of our large orchestra. The original orchestration cannot always be used exactly as bought from the publisher. In order to make it of the proper length for a scene, endings or modulations are written which must be technically correct. Many times when we are unable to find a suitable selection, we cover the action with music which is originated in our department for this particular scene. In selecting a musical theme for a leading character, the principal aim is not only to be consistent with the atmosphere or period but to portray and intensify characteristics through music. One morning last week, when we were screening our next week's picture, a young singer entered the screening room just as we had reached a touching scene of Stella Dallas. In the dark silence of the room, interrupted only by the buzz of the projection machine, the singer sat down at the piano and sang a tender melody. The effect was spontaneous; each of us realized what new intensity had been given by the song to the fine acting on the screen.