28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
2:50 a.m.
lanas wrote:
Le Dimanche, 27 Janvier 2008 10:47:40 +0100,
Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> a écrit :
Every "silent" movie had a sound track - a score that was played by what
were known at the time as theater pipe organs (or something like that).
When I was in high school, my home town had a pizza place that had a
theater pipe organ in it, and once or twice a month they would play old
silent movies and their organist (who had made his living during the
silent movie era playing organ in theaters for these movies) played the
sound tracks. They were pretty good!
--
David
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"Faust" is a silent movie so
doesn't have a regular soundtrack at
all.
I must differ on this. The version shown on TV had a great
soundtrack. Way much better than what Moroder did once for this
other old German movie "Metropolis" ! Thing is, it seems no credit are
given to the composer/band who did it and IMDB lists several versions
with different composers.
"Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage"
http://imdb.com/title/tt0016847/combined
The beginning song for the credits (the only song in the movie) sounds
a bit like some In Extremo (the German folk metal band with the
bagpipes) but the rest is way out of their domain. When some very short
processed voices are introduced as the movie goes towards conclusion
around the time Gretchen is in prison and dreaming of past days it
becomes totally eerie.
I sure would like to know who did that score since that person might
very well have other interesting recordings.
For some it might be sacrilege to do this for a silent movie; for me
it's a great mesmerizing soundtrack :-)