Filmusic Roll "Reuben and Rachel"
By Darrell Clarke
G'day all, I have a Filmusic roll titled "Reuben and Rachel" played by Ed Horton and I am curious to know who these characters were. A musician friend thinks they might be "generic" country folk, but I have a feeling that I have heard of them somewhere before. I guess they were very (Jewish?, Negro?) American which is why we don't know them here in OZ. Was there a silent movie by that name or were they popular stage or movie characters?
I have another Filmusic roll called "Japanese Sunset" which is actually a MetroArt roll "re-badged" and it caused a few laughs when I played it for some Japanese friends who did not recognise the style. I guess it was a Western idea of suitable theme music for Oriental movie scenes. I have another again called "Furioso" which is quite dramatic, but rather monotonous without the visuals. I'm keeping a look-out for more of these interesting silent movie rolls.
I thought I would mention in passing, that from my experience, "Megumi" is a lady's name in Japan.
Tom Steuer wrote:
> First to Megumi Imai of Japan who responded to my question about other
> Duo-Art Vorsetzers. He said he had worked on the Duo-Art Vorsetzer that
> Mel Shores built in 1965 for the Tushinsky family.
If Megumi Imai is a lady, she may be too shy to mention it, but if that is not the case, then I am embarrassed! It is always nice to hear of members of the fairer sex repairing these wonderful machines, as a change from mostly "blokes". It must have been quite tricky to work on a "one off" machine like that, with little or no information available.
Cheers,
Darrell Clarke
Adelaide, Australia. |
(Message sent Tue 1 Apr 1997, 05:25:00 GMT, from time zone GMT+0930.) |
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