Music Video - Danse Macabre (Silent Film & 78rpm)

This is the first Music Video I have ever made. I have some 16mm films, (mostly produced in 1950s) and recently I found out that one of them is a nice short film named Danse Macabre. According to the information on IMDb, this film was produced in 1922, starring Adolph Bolm, a famous Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of that time.

So, I made a Music video, using a 78rpm record from my collection, Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre, with Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra with Leopold Stokowski Conducting, Recorded in 1925. (Correction from 1924) As far as I know, this is the very first electrically-made Orchestral recording in the world.

Hope you'll enjoy this.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 16mm
• Silent
• Adolph
• Bolm
• 1922
• 1924
• Philadelphia
• Symphony
• Orchestra
• Stokowski
• Saint-Saens
• Danse
• Macabre
• 78rpm

[activatethecorpse]

Adolph Bolm is my Great Grandfather. Thank you for posting this. I've never even seen it!

[sha1om]

Actual date of recording was 04/29/1925, and it was indeed the first electrically recorded orchestral piece, although not advertised as such as they didn't want people to stop buying their older acoustic catalogue!

Note though that they were still using the older adaptation for acoustic recording, with (e.g.) a contrabassoon substituting for string bass, which couldn't be recorded acoustically. The soloist on violin was Thaddeus Rich.

[garyp11111]

Olin Howland, who plays Death in this video, would go on to have a long career in motion pictures and television as an actor. Often billed as "Olin Howlin" he is probably best known as the old man who discovers an alien life form and becomes its first victim in THE BLOB (1958). He also played Jensen the drunk ("make me a sergeant in charge of the booze!") in the giant ant flick THEM (1954).

[muellerjewett228]

Bad vid

[jaybreak]

0:35 - Skeleton takes a standing dump

[wb5oxq]

Very nicely done and creative.  I enjoyed it.

[Kievest]

Fantastic and seriously disturbing video...a miraculous blend of acting, dancing,

film and music! Positively nightmarish!! Thank Heaven for the Dawn! Stokowski's interpretation with the PSO is the best I've heard! A gem!

[iloveshiloh1]

So nobody else finds that skeleton guy intensely terrifying...?

[tokyoboywonder]

May I ask exactly how you 'directed' this?

[GLWillaims]

watch,dont fish and drive!

[MSSL06]

i liked this a lot, thank you.

[1400deadwood]

Cool work ~ very artistic, haunting, and atmospheric.