Paramount opened its vault for a high-energy celebration of movie music on Sunday night at the Hollywood Bowl in conjunction with the studio's 100th anniversary. From Wings to Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, the program leaned heavily on action sequences, with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and conductor David Newman playing selections of notable scores against clips from hit Paramount movies projected on the Bowl's giant screens. Photos: Scores That Rock: 10 Musicians Who Crossed Over to Movies A 10-minute selection from J.S. Zamecnik's score from Wings, the 1927 film that won the first best picture Oscar, focused
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- 9/3/2012
- by Matthew Belloni
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paramount Home Entertainment kicks off the studio’s centennial celebration in 2012 by releasing the inaugural Best Picture Academy Award® winner Wings for the first time ever on Blu-ray. and DVD January 24, 2012. Meticulously restored to give fans the chance to view the visually stunning epic in pristine condition, the 1927 World War I drama explores the devastating effects of war through the story of two men who go off to battle and the woman they both leave behind. Featuring groundbreaking aerial dogfights and epic battle sequences, Wings is both a cinematic spectacle and a compelling story of love and sacrifice that effectively dramatizes the bitter wages of war. The historic piece of cinema stars Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Richard Arlen, and also features Gary Cooper in one of his first feature film roles.
The filming of Wings was a major undertaking for Paramount Pictures when it began shooting in September...
The filming of Wings was a major undertaking for Paramount Pictures when it began shooting in September...
- 11/15/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Undertones: Volume 3 From the beginning of cinema theatre owners tried a variety of methods in which to add sound to film. Initially the reasons for the addition of sound varied from people being weirded out by seeing mute folks onscreen to utilizing it as a means in which to mask the noise made by the crude projectors playing the film. It soon became obvious to film exhibitors however that sound actually enhanced the tone and interpretation by the audience of the film. When the Lumiere brothers first demonstrated their films in 1895 in Paris, they had a piano player accompany the action on screen. The pianist would watch the screen and capture the changes of mood. When the first theatres opened in 1902 in the USA, methods such as using someone to create sound effects and/or dialogue as well as Thomas Edison’s synchronised disc (not always guaranteed to synchronise) proved...
- 7/13/2009
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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