Re: A good documentary.


J. Anderson wrote:

> "Dmitry" <dmitrijsfedotovs@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1138647981.937450.240780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Well, that is about old Eisenstein. But Potemkin was really
> >> revolutionary film - both ideologically and even more as benchmark in
> >> movie making art.
> >
> > Probably the first movie with some colour in it. I wonder how many
> > metres of film they had to go through to paint that flag to appear red.
> > I guess each copy had to undergo the same process too.
>
> It has a nice funeral march though. I wonder if it was composed for this
> purpose. Can't remember the name of the composer -- Krutov, Krylov?

I don't know. I've never took notice of soundtrack. According to
Wikipedia: The original score was composed by Edmund Meisel. A salon
orchestra performed the Berlin premiere in 1926; its instrumentation
was flute/piccolo, trumpet, trombone, harmonium, percussion and strings
without viola. Meisel wrote the score in twelve days and nights due to
the late approval from the censorship board. Due to this problem,
Meisel would repeat large sections of the score, unchanged, in an
effort to complete the project. Composer/conductor Mark-Andreas
Schlingensiepen has reorchestrated and improved the score based on the
original piano score and has adjusted it to fit the reconstructed
version of the movie available today.

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