| WORDS AND MUSIC BY - NO. 3 Composers of Popular Music at Home | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6732 | |
| Catalog #: | 429955 | |
| Clip Number: | 429955-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 103 | |
| Timecode: | 01:35:52 - 01:40:41 | |
| Location: | Great Britain | |
| Year Shot: | 1928 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC: Popular LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK OCCUPATIONS: Entertainer, Musician / Singer | |
| Description: | WORDS AND MUSIC BY - NO. 3 in a series of stories on composers of popular songs. Famous composers are featured - May Brake, Helen Taylor, Harry Carlton and Franz Lehar. The first section here profiles Miss May Brahe and Miss Helen Taylor. MS woman and small boy c. age 3 looking out French windows to the garden. MLS the two women sitting at a folding table in the garden. MCU as one writes something while the other watches. GV two ladies standing in the garden, the young boy enters the scene. MCU lady grinning. MS boy holding his hands together ready to catch a ball, but it drops in front of him and bounces away. Back to MCU of woman. CU a bunch of sheet music spinning as if on a turntable, this starts spinning faster & faster until a blur, dissolve into MLS of Harry Carlton, composer of the sheet music pictured, at the piano. GV Carton playing piano as a film projection is seen on a screen behind him (The connection is that his biggest hit was called "Constantinople"). MS profile of Carlton at piano, leans forward to make a notation on his sheet music. CU hand using pen to write on sheet of music. Back to the spinning sheet music again. "the king of fascinating musical comedies" Franz Lehar. MS Lehar sitting at table while artist draws a picture of him. CU artist drawing the sketch. CU Lehar. CU sketch. "What are we going to sing and laugh at next? Are our tunes going to have a 'bacony' flavour?" CU plate of bacon and eggs, w/ a man cutting the fatty bacon w/ a knife and fork. MS big man cutting his bacon, he looks up and starts talking and gesturing w/ his knife. "Why is the Bacon So Tough?" by Reginal Arkell & Charles Prentice. MS young man playing piano while his co-composer stands beside looking at newspaper; he points out something in the paper. MCU man's hands playing piano. Dissolve to CU plate of bacon being cut w/knife & fork. MCU the lyricist standing jotting something down on notepad, he looks over at the clock on the wall which dissolves into a plate - w/hands still trying to cut bacon. CU his hand writing lyrics on scrap of paper. Dissolve to CU composer writing musical notation by hand. Dissolve to CU hands playing piano. Dissolve to CU knife & fork cutting bacon again. CU printed sheet music of the song being opened. MCU Arkell & Prentice laughing. | |
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