Buster Keaton and Arthur Barrow on TCM
Charles Ulrich
> Cameraman, The (1928)
> In this silent film, a photographer takes up newsreel shooting to
> impress a movie queen.
> Cast: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harry Gribbon. Dir: Edward
> Sedgwick.
> BW-76 mins, TV-G
The website doesn't mention the score, but the DVD version has a score
by Arthur Barrow.
Lots of other good Keaton films (The General, Sherlock Jr., et al.) too.
Also a couple of beach movies from the 1960s, including one with Tim
Carey.
The Cameraman is on at 6:30pm eastern, 3:30pm pacific.
See <http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.jsp?startDate=8/30/2007> for the
schedule.
--Charles
John Henley
Charles Ulrich <ulr...@sfu.ca> wrote:
> Tomorrow is Buster Keaton day on Turner Classic Movies. In particular:
>
> > Cameraman, The (1928)
> > In this silent film, a photographer takes up newsreel shooting to
> > impress a movie queen.
> > Cast: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harry Gribbon. Dir: Edward
> > Sedgwick.
> > BW-76 mins, TV-G
>
> The website doesn't mention the score, but the DVD version has a score
> by Arthur Barrow.
I'm a fan of silent (that is, pre-talkie) movies.
A few years ago, when he was posting here regularly,
Arthur mentioned that he had one of these coming
up on TCM. I think it was Greta Garbo's The Torrent.
I wrote to Arthur and mentioned that I liked a good
music score but that a lot of the scores I heard these
days sounded like they'd been dashed off without
much taking into account the action onscreen. I mentioned
Carl Davis as someone who knew how to do this right,
and asked Arthur - well I don't remember how I asked it,
but I wanted to know if this was something he had an
enthusiasm for.
His reply was, basically, that it was just a job, and
watching silent movies was not anywhere on his list
of agreeable pastimes.
Arthur is a very fine musician, but.......... If he's kept
on doing this, I hope he finally got a taste for it.
John Henley
Yesterdays Wafflez
nostalgia for the old folks.
Also, I'm going to purchase a cd or two of his, what's your favorite
Barrow cd?
thnz,
Y.W. (who is NOT enjoying todays CA 105º)
The Idiot
so is AB3, and not just to hear the great Mr E Guest. Oh, and Eyebrow
Razor has a nice song sung by Ike & Ray...oh, just get all 4! (http://
home.netcom.com/~bigear/cds4sale.html)
Charles Ulrich
> Tomorrow is Buster Keaton day on Turner Classic Movies. In particular:
>
> > Cameraman, The (1928)
> > In this silent film, a photographer takes up newsreel shooting to
> > impress a movie queen.
> > Cast: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harry Gribbon. Dir: Edward
> > Sedgwick.
> > BW-76 mins, TV-G
>
> The website doesn't mention the score, but the DVD version has a score
> by Arthur Barrow.
And so did the broadcast.
--Charles
Moahh
> Tomorrow is Buster Keaton day on Turner Classic Movies. In particular:
>
> > Cameraman, The (1928)
> > In this silent film, a photographer takes up newsreel shooting to
> > impress a movie queen.
> > Cast: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harry Gribbon. Dir: Edward
> > Sedgwick.
> > BW-76 mins, TV-G
>
> The website doesn't mention the score, but the DVD version has a score
> by Arthur Barrow.
>
Did he play "My Sharona" in the movie, unaware that it was written
after 1928??
Heitor Mendes Pannuti
Charles Ulrich
<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.frank-zappa/browse_thread/thread/
5fe482bd4eab4f31/>.
As I guessed while watching, Bruce Fowler and Tommy Mars were involved.
"Mars played the Hammond/Leslie parts and some of the piano, notably the
stride versions of the themes." Robert Williams played drums. Presumably
Arthur played the rest.
Arthur wrote: "there are a couple of FZ motifs I hid in the music just
for fun. Will anyone find them?" I missed them the first time around but
will listen again more carefully. Of course I caught Take Me Out To The
Ball Game--Not.
Arthur also wrote: "I feel that my experience with FZ was very valuable
in helping me do these silent movies, especially because every piece of
music has to connect to the previous and following pieces, much like a
Live FZ show."
--Charles