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(b) Georges Auric |
Passport to Pimlico |
The Siege of Burgundy |
369 |
This is the
oldest of the film music extracts to be studied (1948) It is witty energetic and
busy, with frequent quick changes in texture and scoring. Typical features include:
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careful
scalic writing, sometimes in parallel intervals
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a tendency
to hop from one key to another without warning
The music
helps to move the time line in the story forward quickly whilst at the same time
providing the viewer/listener with background information and the atmosphere
during this passage of time for the scenes following in the film.
The short descriptions of the shots and images shown during the music
shows clearly the detail and precision used by the composer to illustrate the
visual images shown.
The process
of adding music to fit exactly with the action of the film is commonly called
‘Mickey mousing’. It is found in this work just as it is found in Tom and
Jerry cartoon films.
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Bar reference
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Important
elements |
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Bars
1-2: Newspaper headline; Burgundy Bombarded by Buns |
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Bars
3-4: Food parcels are thrown into the jaws of a Bulldozer |
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Bars
5-6: People throw food parcels from passing buses |
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Bars
7-8 Food parcels are thrown over barbed wire |
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Bars
9 -10:Parcels are thrown from a train |
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Bars
17-18:People run towards the barbed wire |
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Bar
19: Headline:’ Burgundy issue splits Britain’ |
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Bar
15 - 16: Political meeting in Hyde Park |
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Bars17-18:
Trafalgar square |
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Bar
20 -21 Headline: ‘Angle Bergundian talks open: Government yields to
public pressure.’ |
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Bars
21- 26: This music is edited out of the film soundtrack. |
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Bars
27-28 Headline: ‘Talks still hinge on treasury’ |
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Bars
30 -31 Headline: ‘Bergundians use veto’ |
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31-32 Headline: ’Nation’s gift’s flood Burgundy’ |
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33 -34 The edited film cuts immediately to bar 39. |
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Bars
39 - 45 Presents (donated and labelled from areas of London) |
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Bars
46 -48 The presents are unwrapped |
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Bars
49-50 Display boards show presents received |
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Bar
52 Headline: talks ‘deadlock complete’ |
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Bar
53 Council meeting |
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Bars
54 Headline ‘Airlift for Burgundy |
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Bars
55 - 59 A helicopter flies in |
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Bars
59 - Milk arrives |
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Bars
60 - 64 ...through pipes |
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64 -65 Headline: ’Door is still open - No Quarrel with Britain’ |
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