“ FILM SCORING “ 1937 FILM COMPOSER DOCU SHORT COMPOSER & CONDUCTOR VICTOR YOUNG XD10184

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: This black & white short film shows how a musical score enhances a motion picture. Many clips from Frank Lioyd’s ’Wells Fargo’ (1937) are shown. There is no copyright but this is circa 1937, and was likely made to help promote the feature’s release. Opening: A title card that mentions how music enhances the spectacle of a great motion picture (:09-:19). Paramount Pictures front gate, a soundstage, the music department entrance sign. Western clips are superimposed over the face of director Frank Lloyd. Mr. Lloyd is then seated with composer Victor Young, another man, in a projection room. They watch a scene from Lloyd’s film, ’Wells Fargo’ (1937). The scene shows New Year’s Eve 1854 with a rowdy crowd on horse wagons, a couple laughs in a dining hall, a man comes in and tells another about a gold strike, he says it rather loud and everyone hears it a