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Movie Newsreel Fanfare Music
By Dave Krall

What were the names of the various newsreel fanfare marches that
opened the newsreel film productions?  Paramount had "Paramount
on Parade" (or was it called the "Paramount March"?) but did the
music for Fox Movietone and Hearst Metrotone have names?

Were they written as full length marches?  Have any of them been
arranged for band organ?  Who wrote them?  Were they written
specifically for the newsreel productions?

Here is Peter Mintun playing (and singing the words to) "Paramount
on Parade":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl9WmOg2Nd0
Attachment thumbnail and on the Maar & Colton pipe organ at Shea's Roosevelt Theater, Buffalo, New York: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwGq81FO-04
Attachment thumbnail Dave Krall P.S.: I just learned that the Fox Movietone march was based on "World Events", composed by J. S. Zamecnik: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV4Kp-sD5Rk
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Key Words in Subject:  Fanfare, Movie, Music, Newsreel