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Mechanical Music in the Movies: "Amsterdamned"
By Michael Woolf

[ Ingmar Krause wrote:

> Does anybody know what the prop used in the scene was?  I'm gonna
> have nightmares now.

I can reassure MMDers about this.  Some years ago Johnny and Mareika
Verbeeck visited us in New Zealand and over lunch Johnny told me the
story of this shot.

He was approached by the film makers and commissioned to build a fake
organ.  He was delighted, he said, because it was a chance to get rid
of all the junk in his workshop.

The film was duly made and Johnny told me he had only one regret, which
was that they got it right the first time -- so he was not required to
build another dummy draaiorgel.

Michael Woolf
New Zealand


(Message sent Mon 24 Sep 2007, 01:56:40 GMT, from time zone GMT+1200.)

Key Words in Subject:  Amsterdamned, Mechanical, Movies, Music

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