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

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 3/16/2014 2:17 AM, Clifford Bolling wrote:
> I recorded the 8 sides and there isn't much dialog until reel 7.  Seems 'Billy' was a jockey and somehow injured himself and
> shouldn't have ridden in the big race, but he did anyway.  His ex-friend Morley had his chippy wife take $3000 from the company
> safe to bet on Billy's nag.  Not sure if she actually did make the bet, but Billy won and also was terribly injured with a cracked
> skull in a fall from the horse after the race.  Is he going to live???
>
> In the meantime, Morley gets busted for stealing the $3000 from the company safe.  Next scene is 6 months later.  The chippy
> wife is canoodling with her new boyfriend.  Morley gets out of jail and Billy is OK and there to meet him, once again BFF.  Billy
> takes Morley home and they catch chippy with her boyfriend.  Apparently, she has been living the high life these last 6 months
> with the money from the safe and possibly the winnings from the horse race.  Chippy's boyfriend skidaddles and she gets
>   booted out of the house and the 2 BFF walk happily into the sunset looking for some new girlfriends.
>
> Reels 1 thru 6 have only music, sound effects like doors closing, trains, horses galloping, crowd noise, with a few guttural utterances.
>
> The song Pals Forever is sung by a noticeably inebriated quartet in the 3rd reel.
>
> Not quite the same as movies nowadays, but probably worth a nickel in 1929.
>
Do the records have indexing marks, such as arrows?  i wonder how they 
were synchronized.

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