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Mechanical Music in the Movies
By Marc Goodman

I just saw a famous film, Jean Renoir's "The Rules of the Game",
France, 1939.  (It's a newly restored print; I do not know if the
older prints have all the items in it!)  In the film, one of the main
characters is rich and lives in a large home and collects mechanical
musical instruments!  So you can see and hear: a reproducing grand
(the roll is above the keyboard) playing Saint-Saens "Danse Macabre",
various automatons and mechanical birds as well a very large band
organ!!

Best,
Marc Goodman, Cleveland, Ohio


(Message sent Tue 6 Feb 2007, 13:28:48 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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