Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 Frank Barknecht: > "Faust" is a silent movie so doesn't have a regular soundtrack at all. Many movies from the silent era had original scores, sometimes more than one, and were premiered with orchestral accompaniment. Not one movie ever was shown silent, at least someone always played a klavier in the theatre. The notion of "silent movies" was unheard of :) In the Faust case Werner Richard Heymann and Paul Hensel wrote different scores. Many original scores have been lost. People don't stop to write new music for silent movies though. You're probably aware of this and of course you're right about the non-existing technical soundtracks in prints from the era and reproductions of these. But there are lots of Hollywood studio re-releases of silent movies (all of Chaplin for example) with soundtracks, that sometimes even carry original music from the time. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
