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Author Topic: Wurlitzer Organs Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-29-2005 07:03 PM                        Many thanks Bernard - will have a look. Today's generation of silent film accompianists, e.g. Neil Brand, Stephen Horne or Phil Carli, are amazing people who never fail to bring a film to life. But I can't help thinking that with Ena's and Florence's generation passing, we really have lost our last solid link to when silent film shows were an everyday commercial reality rather than something which is done by enthusiasts and archivists as an historical reconstruction. I never heard or projected for Florence de Jong playing, but when Ena appeared at the NFT there was no doubt in anyone's mind that this was something special. Mine is probably the last generation which will ever hear a silent film accompanist play who actually worked in the 1920s, I'd guess. BTW, Ena didn't just have it in for Hollywood and/or Von Stroheim. Another of her party tricks was the closing scene from Shooting Stars, one of my favourite films, in which she subverted the bitter ending by playing There's No Business Like Show Business as the former star walks off the set as a destitute extra in the film's final shot.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 07-30-2006 03:23 PM                 It has been 365 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged William Phillips Expert Film Handler Posts: 117 From: Cardigan, Wales, UK Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-30-2006 03:23 PM                        Silent films are the best. We have done a few here on the trusted VIC5. Did it properly 3 bladed shutters, inverters on the machines to get what ever FPS. Neil Brand did one with us. There is one called Peter Shallcross who does them as well, Very good. He has done 5 with us. The last one was The General. Its such a differance doing silent, the feel in the cinema is so much better, I really go to town on making the event feel special, make sure everything is perfect. Its a dying form and I dont think people realise what they are missing. I would love to see a silent film with an orchestra, that would be a hell of an event.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 07-30-2006 04:22 PM                     Did "The Wind" using our V-5 / triple blade and custom D.C. servo tachometer system. The music and effects where supplied by a 20 piece orchestra. The conductor had seen the film so many times and had scored it to 20 fps. When we did the rehearsal, he gave me the signal when the image looked fine....which the tach displayed exactly 20.000  |  IP: Logged Cameron Glendinning Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 845 From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 08-02-2006 05:34 AM                     here is a Wurlitzer its at the hayden orpheum picture palace in Sydney Australia, it was added in 1988  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 08-02-2006 01:41 PM                     Wow. Beautiful theatre!  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 08-02-2006 09:13 PM                        Ditto, what Bruce said. Tres Beau.  |  IP: Logged Steve Maggs Film Handler Posts: 22 From: Brisbane , Australia Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-04-2006 09:56 PM                     aahhh Cameron you beat me to it. Just read this forum today. For more information on all 6 cinemas and the organ itself visit www.orpheum.com.au I was Manager of that complex for a number of years.  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 08-28-2006 02:18 AM                     I have heard about them for a few decades, but never been. So tonight I went to Organ Stop Pizza to hear their Mighty Wurlitzer! HOLY @!#$%!!..AMAZING! Look at their web site www.organstoppizza.com  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 08-28-2006 03:12 AM                        Pipe organs are some of the most awesome (in the classical meaning of the word), and fascinating instruments. Often the building they are in was designed around them, as they are huge and highly involved. They can be extremely ornate, and few things are more beautiful than a room lined in plished organ pipes. Not to mention the sound, talk about filling the room. If any instrument could produce a note powerful enough to make someone crap themselves, it'd be a pipe organ. The one at the cathedral downtown can make your eyes rattle around in your skull, and it is not the grandest, though no toy either. Pipe organs, the original sythesizer, originally created sometime in the 200's BC, I beleive it got it's capability to imitate other intruments around 15th or 16th century. Odd that people, when asked, quote the sythesizer as dating back to the 1950's or 60's, when it's much much older. They're thinking of the elctronic sythesizer, which is nice, but I'd rather have an organ. I wonder if I can get a pipe organ that'll run midi.  |  IP: Logged Paul Cassidy Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 549 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2001 posted 08-28-2006 04:44 AM                        The Hollywood Cinema in Avondale Auckland still has an Organ and runs silent movies on a regular basis . Hollywood cinema Organ  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-28-2006 08:58 PM                     Charles, with the appropriate electronic relay, a pipe organ can work midi. An electro-pneumatic relay cannot.  |  IP: Logged

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