I have played the piano to accompany silent movies for many years. I first saw this movie at the USO at the NATO base at Keflavik, Iceland. For this movie I chose a selection of music by Albert W. Ketelby, like "In a Persian Market", "Algerian Scene", and "By the Blue Hawaiian Waters". Incidentally, Mr. Ketelby actually wrote original orchestral accompaniments for silent movies, and still was writing music for movies as the mid-20th century epic "Stagecoach".
This one had lots of cues for sound effects, including the sounding of a gong when the plot calls for "a revelation". Friends of mine and I borrowed a 3 foot diameter Chinese gong from the elementary school on the NATO base. When the cue arrived, I reached back with the padded mallet and hit the gong.
A man, being obviously drunk and unsteady on his feet, stood up, turned and faced the back of the small auditorium, pointed an index finger at our projectionist, and said, "Don't ever do that again!" Then he tottered out of the auditorium, to vanish into the Midnight Sun. The Midnight Sun was the name of the restaurant/club/dance hall/casino for enlisted personnel on the base.
At the USO showing of this film in an 8mm format from Blackhawk Films, the projectionist (who also owned the film) decided to skip reel 3 (there were 5 reels), which contained some 20 minutes of underwater photography. "The film is long enough; let's get through to the finish."
Our projectionist's opinion of this movie can be summed up as "abysmal". It is something you acknowledge in a filmography, because it exists, but other than that, you advise people to see it once (for the underwater photography), and let it go at that.
This one had lots of cues for sound effects, including the sounding of a gong when the plot calls for "a revelation". Friends of mine and I borrowed a 3 foot diameter Chinese gong from the elementary school on the NATO base. When the cue arrived, I reached back with the padded mallet and hit the gong.
A man, being obviously drunk and unsteady on his feet, stood up, turned and faced the back of the small auditorium, pointed an index finger at our projectionist, and said, "Don't ever do that again!" Then he tottered out of the auditorium, to vanish into the Midnight Sun. The Midnight Sun was the name of the restaurant/club/dance hall/casino for enlisted personnel on the base.
At the USO showing of this film in an 8mm format from Blackhawk Films, the projectionist (who also owned the film) decided to skip reel 3 (there were 5 reels), which contained some 20 minutes of underwater photography. "The film is long enough; let's get through to the finish."
Our projectionist's opinion of this movie can be summed up as "abysmal". It is something you acknowledge in a filmography, because it exists, but other than that, you advise people to see it once (for the underwater photography), and let it go at that.