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The Viking (1928)

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Frank Berger

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Mar 18, 2021, 10:39:31 AM3/18/21
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Watching this now on TCM. Typically stupid story and costumes, but one of the earliest full technicolor films. Silent with a soundtrack added prior to release in 1929. Uncredited, but bits if Die Valkure, Flying Dutchman, Parsifal and Grieg's opera Sigurd Jorsalfar. No indication who did the recording.

Bob Harper

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Mar 18, 2021, 6:09:28 PM3/18/21
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A hile back I watched this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Nibelungen

made by Fritz Lang in 1924. I think I watched it on Amazon Prime, but
it's nno longer available there. It had a very 'Wagnerian' score,though
as far as I could tell there were no actual Wagner quotes. Not sure who
the composer was.

Pretty impressive.

Bob Harper

Bob Harper

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Mar 18, 2021, 9:15:38 PM3/18/21
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A little more searching discloses Gottfried Huppertz as the composer. He
also wrote the score for Lang's Metropolis.

Bob Harper

John Fowler

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Mar 19, 2021, 6:33:48 AM3/19/21
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Some late 1920s silent films had an orchestral score added to them (+ occasional bits of dialogue) - Hollywood made no distinction between "composer" and "arranger".

John Fowler

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Mar 19, 2021, 6:42:34 AM3/19/21
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The Viking is available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWARzH1wy8c&t=4777s
Probably the first time an audience heard the MGM lion roar.

Bob Harper

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Mar 19, 2021, 5:56:39 PM3/19/21
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So are the Nibelungen movies.

Bob Harper

gggg gggg

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Mar 19, 2021, 9:03:19 PM3/19/21
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https://groups.google.com/g/humanities.music.composers.wagner/c/Uovv6Wi5lGM

Al Eisner

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Mar 20, 2021, 1:30:43 AM3/20/21
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019532/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
says music by William Axt (uncredited). There is a link to him.
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Al Eisner
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