[78-L] The new Sherlock Holmes film has an Improved Gramophone...

[David Lennick]

On 12/26/2011 2:17 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
>>>> Anyone catch a couple of goofs in "The Artist" yet (fabulous movie otherwise)? neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Haven't seen it yet. What to look for?  joe salerno
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> It has to do with the playing of a record..3 errors in one image. dl
>
> I think everyone in the crowded theater was wondering why Leah and I
> were guffawing so hard at what wasn't a joke to any else!  (It was like
> when the Indian in Blazing Saddles starts talking Yiddish -- and we were
> the only Jews in the theater in the middle of rural Missouri.)  But that
> shot goes by so quickly, but we do get to see the phono again to confirm
> that yes, we DID see it the first time. I don't think it was a goof, I
> think it was an inside joke.
>
> Does your other goof concern the slow burning nitrate film?

Actually I hadn't counted that one, but yes, without adding a spoiler here 
(otherwise somebody shouldn't have been around for the finale). There were 
THREE phonogoofs if you count the size of the record label (the other two being 
the speed and the 1950s player..which was also odd considering that he had an 
external horn phonograph as well). Another goof I wouldn't have known about but 
which is on the IMDB site concerns a name shown as a 1929 star but who'd died 
in 1925.
>
> And everyone, if you haven't seen The Artist, don't wait for the DVD,
> you gotta see it in a CROWDED THEATER.  The audience will add to the
> experience.  It will be like it was when seeing a silent film back in
> the day.

And I love the score, even if parts of it are lifted from Bernard Hermann and 
Alberto Ginastera and Duke Ellington.

dl
>
> As for the Sherlick Homes Gramopnone, I saw it in the coming attractions
> and was wondering about it.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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>>> On 12/25/2011 11:52 PM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
>>>> My family and I went to see the new Sherlock Holmes film today. It had
>>>> quite a few ...um, shall we say, endearing anachronisms. However, the
>>>> one that got my full attention was a Berliner Improved Gramophone.
>>>>
>>>> Either it's authentic or a damn good replica. Correct wide flat
>>>> traveling arm, correct leather coupling between the sound box and the
>>>> brass horn, and even the correct Clark-Johnson sound box. In fact, the
>>>> only thing wrong with this Berliner Improved Gramophone was that it
>>>> somehow made its way to London in 1891, which is where and when the film
>>>> is set. :) (Johnson would not deliver his machine to Berliner until
>>>> 1896, and England really didn't get them until, I believe, 1898.)
>>>>
>>>> MS
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