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Mechanical Music in the Movies
By Lee Rothrock

About one hour into the 1948 version of "Summer Holiday" with Mickey
Rooney, there is a bar scene with a player piano.  I can't identify
the piano or really detect whether it's actually producing the music
on the soundtrack.  It looks like they dolled it up for the movie,
you can't see the spoolbox.

"Richard" (Mickey Rooney) has a date with an "older woman" (Marilyn
Maxwell), and by the time she chimes in vocally with the pianos
rendition of "Weary Blues" there's a big band on the soundtrack.

It's a fun movie, even if it is kind of corny.  They had a lot of fun
with the Technicolor enhancing the young man's change of view of the
woman after the drinks soak in!

Lee Rothrock


(Message sent Mon 22 Feb 2010, 21:43:37 GMT, from time zone GMT.)

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