Songs of Yesterday
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Songs of Yesterday |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1922 |
| length | 2 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lee De Forest |
| production | Lee De Forest |
| camera | Lee De Forest |
| occupation | |
Songs of Yesterday is a short music film starring opera singer Abbie Mitchell , released in 1922.
background
Songs of Yesterday was produced by Lee De Forest as part of his early experiments with the new medium of sound film in the early 1920s and premiered in 1922. In the short film of about two minutes in length, the singer Abbie Mitchell ( The Colored Prima Donna , 1884-1960) appears on the stage of the New York Dixie Review . The De Forest Phonofilm filmed with a purely scientific interest film the singer on the stage in a single setting with a fixed camera position; similar to the other attempts of this time with the singers Eddie Cantor ( A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor ), George Jessel , Molly Picon , the vaudeville artists Eva Puck and Sammy White as well as with the songwriters Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake ( Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs ) The film is kept in the collection of Maurice Zouary and Ray Pointer; it was restored by Maurice Zouary on behalf of the Library of Congress and released in 2004 on the DVD First Sound of Movies .
Web links
- Video of the film
- Songs of Yesterday in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jazz in Film: Contributions to the History and Theory of an Inter-Media Phenomenon , edited by Willem Strank, Claus Tieber. LIT Verlag, 2014 [Series: Filmwissenschaft, Vol. 16]
- ↑ Al Rose: Eubie Blake . 1979, page 87
- ^ Richard Barrios: A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film . 1995, p. 16
- ↑ Maurice H Zouary, Ray Pointer, Lee De Forest - Maurice Zouary Collection: First Sound of Movies . Library of Congress Publishing, Los Angeles