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Year Published: 1937)
Format: 16mm
Description: This black & white short film shows how a musical score enhances a motion picture. Many clips from Frank Lioyd's 'Wells Fargo' (1937) are shown. There is no copyright but this is circa 1937, and was likely made to help promote the feature's release. Opening: A title card that mentions how music enhances the spectacle of a great motion picture (:09-:19). Paramount Pictures front gate, a soundstage, the music department entrance sign. Western clips are superimposed over the face of director Frank Lloyd. Mr. Lloyd is then seated with composer Victor Young, another man, in a projection room. They watch a scene from Lloyd's film, 'Wells Fargo' (1937). The scene shows New Year's Eve 1854 with a rowdy crowd on horse wagons, a couple laughs in a dining hall, a man comes in and tells another about a gold strike, he says it rather loud and everyone hears it and starts to react. People rush out in a frenzy. Victor Young plays the piano, he stops to jot something down (:20-2:11). Young composes a theme for Bob Burns and an Indian walking down a busy street, the scene is shown with the music added. The next scene shows the vigilantes preparing to lynch Porter Hall, music ads to the menace as the scene continues. A rope with a noose is thrown up around a pole (2:12-3:20). Another scene in which Frances Dee says goodbye to Joel McCrea, she hugs him and the music comes up. They hold one another and talk. A hand composes a score. Music is printed, names of instruments are printed. On a scoring stage, the orchestra starts to play. Victor Young composes while the orchestra plays, clips of the movie play above them on a film screen. Young waves his baton. Violinists play. A horse and wagon chase plays out above them (3:21-5:14). Young waves his baton in a frenzy, a man plays a flute. A scene of a wagon is shown, music composing continues. Clips of people running, cheering, from 'Wells Fargo' (1937). Victor Young continues to wave the baton. A man bangs a cymbal. People wave from a scene in 'Wells Fargo' (1937) (5:15-6:41). End credits (6:42-6:50). Albert Victor Young (1899 – 1956) was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He received 22 Academy Award nominations during his career -- although he did not have a nomination for "Wells Fargo". In fact, Young did not win an Oscar during his lifetime, instead winning posthumously for his score of Around the World in Eighty Days (1956).
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[Music] one of the most important jobs of Hollywood melody masters is the creation of musical scores for great motion pictures such a picture is the epic story of Pioneer American days Wells Fargo Frank Lloyd successor to his other famous productions mutiny on the bounty and cavalcade the scene is a studio projection room and with mr. Lloyd is the world-famous composer and orchestra conductor Victor young with them as the screen is a scene from Wells Fargo one of the many for which mr. young will compose a musical score beautiful Lola Montez a famous dancer a new strike they found gold in the back center Eureka huh you hear that a new strike did you hear that Eureka [Music] daily screenings of the picture midnight Labor's composing the score many weeks are spent preparing the music for a picture like Wells Fargo and a few examples will show how it adds to the effectiveness of a scene take the theme for which mr. young is now composing a theme the scene in which Bob burns and the Indian walk down a busy st. Louis Street door is prized may offseason you're right we've got to eat but until the bolts start running it's going to be kind of hard to get worth course in a way that's a good thing you know work is one thing you ought to do in moderation now let's watch the scene in which the vigilantes prepare to lynch Porter Hall music adds to the Menace of the mall as we continue the seat [Music] [Applause] [Music] let's watch Francis Dean say goodbye to her sweetheart Joel Megan and notice our music adds to the sentiment of the seat to think I just couldn't bear the thought of leaving going into danger I'll be alright perhaps I'll be back again before you've had time to miss me for you forever don't make forever to after a musical score has been composed weeks of intensive work follow before the music finally is heard on the screen Arrangements orchestrations rehearsals and then the big day on a studio scoring stage when a symphony orchestra brings to life the composer's themes here we see Victor young the composer of Wells Fargo score conducting the orchestra as it plays in synchronism with the picture on a miniature screen [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
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