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Magnificent Score by Elena Ruehr
This small documentary film was created in 1911 to publicize the socially important work being done by The Manhattan Trade school For Girls. In this it is an interesting document from the "Progressive Era" and it serves its function admirably. What lift the movie out of the earnestly mundane and makes it special is the score composed for its 2007 restoration by Elena Ruehr. Special is one adjective to be used and magnificent would be another. Here is a perfect example of an artists ability to take the ordinary and transmute it to gold lifting it ethereal heights not anticipated. I found myself watching it again and again and asking others to do so as the haunting score for chorus and string orchestra immortalized those long ago students Millie, Rose, Miriam, Sadie, and Marie. Any composer seeking to score a silent film should seek out and learn from Ms. Ruehr. For this I gave the film a score of 10.
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- houndspirit
- Apr 9, 2008
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- Runtime16 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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