[78-L] THE ARTIST, was The new Sherlock Holmes film has an Improved Gramophone...

[David Lennick]

I forgot one more anachronism (this isn't a spoiler)..even though the action 
occurs between 1927 and 1932, one of the pieces of music is a Rose Murphy 
record. A bit out of place, even if the song wasn't.

On 12/26/2011 3:10 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> 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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