[78-L] It's a Wonderful Life

[Bud Black]

As a mere waif, I can remember a movie called, "Song Of Surrender," in which
a beautiful, shiny horn on a phonograph is emitting the voice of Buddy Clark
singing the movie's title song.  This occurs near the end of the film.  I've
never seen this movie again, but memories of that machine haunt me to this
day.

Bud 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Harold Aherne
Date: 01/18/09 01:40:55
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Subject: Re: [78-L] It's a Wonderful Life
 
"The Public Enemy" premiered in April 1931, about a year after WB acquired
Brunswick's record-making division, and a number of 1930-32 Warner-First
National
films state "Brunswick Radios Used Exclusively" (or words to that effect) in
the
opening credits.
 
A close-up of a true record label occurs in Mary Pickford's "My Best Girl"
(1927)
near the end when Mary is trying to convince Buddy Rogers that she's just a
money-hungry golddigger after his family's dough. She smears lipstick on her
face and
dances to a Brunswick record that whose title and artist can be made out in
the
half-second before it starts to spin; I'm pretty sure that it's "Red Hot
Mama" by
Ray Miller and his band, which would correspond to catalogue number 2681.
 
There's a close-up of Johnny Marvin's "There's Everything Nice About You" on
Victor 20612 in "The Crowd" from 1928; James Murray uses it to convince
Eleanor Boardman not to leave him.
 
Close-ups of record labels in movies were used at least by 1918 (the
earliest I can
definitely recall is in Cecil B. DeMille's "Old Wives for New"), to provide
an idea for the
musical accompaniment, to complement the plot (as in the above instances),
or even
for a bit of visual humour in some cases.
 
-Harold
 
 
--- On Sat, 1/17/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] It's a Wonderful Life
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 11:51 PM
 
Public Enemy..thank you! And it plays a cracked rendition (acoustical
sounding)
of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles".
 
dl
 
 
 
 
 
 
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