[78-L] OT-Movie "NEW ORLEANS" Soundtrack on 4 16" Discs

[David Lennick]

Boy oh boy, as long as it doesn't run to more than 8 reels, you've got 
something rare there, even if the entire film exists with the soundtrack added. 
Complete sets of sync discs are extremely rare. Soundtracks on discs were still 
in use as late as 1934 since not all theaters wanted to spend money on another 
sound system once they'd invested in Vitaphone, but the VTM designation would 
seem to date these to earlier. I got nothin'.

dl

On 3/16/2014 12:01 AM, Clifford Bolling wrote:
> Hopefully, someone here can help me with this.  I was looking through a bunch of 16" transcriptions and found a movie
> soundtrack on the Tiffany Tone label pressed by the Victor Talking Machine Co for the movie NEW ORLEANS on 4 discs,
> #1 - reels 1&  3, #2 - reels 2&  4, #3 - reels 5&  7, #4 - reels 6&  8.  A quick search of the 'net revealed a 1947 movie with
> that name featuring Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and Woody Herman, but this ain't it.  Also, by that time, the soundtrack
> was on the film and the Victor Talking Machine Co no longer existed as such.  Had to be 1927 to 1929, right?
>
> If that is so, where would I look for the earlier version of this movie that would match this soundtrack?  Wikipedia doesn't
> list a movie of this name at all in the 1920's or 1930's.
>
> Thanks!  Cliff
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