The singing puppets
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The singing puppets |
| Original title | The Gorno Marionettes, “Dimples and Tears”. |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1928 |
| length | 543 ft = 165.5 meters - around 7 minutes at 22 fps |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jack Harrison , artistic director: Henrik Galeen |
| production | British Sound Film Productions Ltd. |
| music | Philip Braham |
| camera | Arpad Viragh |
| occupation | |
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Ottorino Gorno's Marionettes, Miss Drage [the pianist] | |
The Singing Marionettes is the German title of a short film that the director Jack Harrison made under the artistic direction of Henrik Galeen in England in 1928. The actors in it were puppets from the Gorno-Dall'Acqua puppet company. The English original title was The Gorno Marionettes or Gorno's Italian Marionettes after the puppeteer Ottorino Gorno.
action
Performance of the songs "Hello Sunshine, Hello!" By Harry Tobias (music), Charles Tobias and Jack Murray (lyrics) and "I'm Crazy Over You" by Al Sherman and Sam Lewis (music and lyrics) and the scenes "Miss Drage. Assisted by the Three Plain Vans ”and“ Dimples and Tears, parodistic sketch performed by Jal Olsen ”. Al Jolson parodied this sketch with his song "Sonny Boy" by Buddy De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson from the Vitaphone sound film "The Singing Fool" from 1928.
background
The film, a production of British Sound Film Productions Ltd., which used the optical sound system " Phonofilm " by the American engineer Lee de Forest , premiered in December 1928. The photography was in the hands of the Hungarian cameraman Arpád Virágh , who also worked on German film. Sound engineer was FK Crowther. Philip Braham was the musical director . The puppets were led by Ottorino Gorno, who belonged to a long-established Italian puppeteer family. They fell victim to a fire at Wembley Studios in October 1929, one month after they opened.
reception
The Austrian film censorship in Vienna classified the 177 m long film distributed by Sascha as suitable for young people .
Web links
- The singing puppets in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- "The singing puppets" at silentera.com
- "Phonofilm" in the dictionary of film terms
- "The Sounds of British Silents" in the film Diary by Antti Alanen, Thursday, October 08, 2009.
- Henrik Galeen at it.wiki (Italian)
literature
- Paolo Caneppele, Filmarchiv Austria: Decisions of the Viennese film censorship 1929–1933. (= Filmarchiv Austria, materials on Austrian film history. Issue 10). Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, 2003, ISBN 3-901932-23-2 .
- Jan Distelmeyer (Ed.): Tonfilmfrieden / Tonfilmkrieg. The story of Tobis from technology syndicate to state company. A CineGraph book. Verlag Edition Text + Critique, 2003, ISBN 3-88377-749-8 , p. 48.
- Henryk Jurkowski, Penny Francis: History of European Puppetry: The Twentieth Century. (= A History of European Puppetry. Volume 2). Edwin Mellen Press, 1998, ISBN 0-7734-8322-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The 3 Duns. Done, Underdone and Overdone ”, who performed the song“ I'm Crazy Over You ”, were three black singers. That brings the aspect of the black face artist into the puppet film, cf. Alanen, "The Sounds of British Silents," October 8, 2009.
- ↑ cf. Filmography at filmportal.de
- ↑ cf. Jurkowski-Francis p. 98
- ↑ cf. Caneppele p. 313