Mech. Music in the Movies: "A Nous la Liberté"
By Philip Jamison
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I just watched Rene Clair's
1931 film "À Nous la Liberté", a comedy/drama that concerns an escaped
convict who makes it big in the French phonograph business. He starts
a huge factory with an assembly line à la Chaplin's "Modern Times"
(who was later sued by the producers for plagiarism, but that's another
story covered on the DVD).
Besides all the phonographs, the film soundtrack uses a small
Limonaire fairground organ (or the like) in several scenes. They never
show the organ, but it's obviously a mechanical organ. I believe the
arrangements were done especially for the film. It's available on DVD.
Philip Jamison
Pennsylvania
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