Synopsis
This black & white short film shows how a musical score enhances a motion picture. Many clips from Frank Lioyd's 'Wells Fargo' (1937) are shown. There is no copyright but this is circa 1937, and was likely made to help promote the feature's release. Opening: A title card that mentions how music enhances the spectacle of a great motion picture (:09-:19). Paramount Pictures front gate, a soundstage, the music department entrance sign. Western clips are superimposed over the face of director Frank Lloyd. Mr. Lloyd is then seated with composer Victor Young, another man, in a projection room. They watch a scene from Lloyd's film, 'Wells Fargo' (1937). The scene shows New Year's Eve 1854 with a rowdy crowd on horse wagons, a couple laughs in a dining hall, a man comes in and tells another about a gold strike, he says it rather loud and everyone hears it and starts to react. People rush out in a frenzy. Victor Young plays the piano, he stops to jot something down (:20-2:11). Young composes a theme for Bob Burns and an Indian walking down a busy street, the scene is shown with the music added. The next scene shows the vigilantes preparing to lynch Porter Hall, music ads to the menace as the scene continues. A rope with a noose is thrown up around a pole (2:12-3:20). Another scene in which Frances Dee says goodbye to Joel McCrea, she hugs him and the music comes up. They hold one another and talk. A hand composes a score. Music is printed, names of instruments are printed. On a…
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Details
- Running time
- 7 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Film Scoring
- 1937
- Composer
- Conductor
- Victory Young
- Stock Footage
- Periscope Film
