Wawona Hotel's resident pianist Tom Bopp

Video Title :	Wawona Hotel's resident pianist Tom Bopp
Description :	Tom Bopp, the resident pianist in Wawona Hotel inside Yosemite National Park, gave an impromptu lecture on silent movie accompaniment of yesteryears. He played samples of : "HURRY" music, "BURGLAR" music, "INDIAN" music, "SALOON" music. He also played a composition of 1925 music, for a scene in a Charlie Chaplin silent film titled, "GOLD RUSH". The music was for the scene where Charlie Chaplin falls in love with the girl in the saloon. Pictures I filmed while this music was going on were that of President Theodore Roosevelt with John Muir in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite Park a picture of the Wawona Tunnel Tree a picture of Henry Washburn, one of the Washburn brothers who owned Wawona Hotel. ------------------------- to view "THE GOLD RUSH" go to: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3261704630520195961 The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin (1925/1942) Charlie Chaplin 1 hr 11 min 49 sec - Mar 21, 2007 antolintinez.googlepages.com Source: www.arhive.org The movie was originally released before the invention of sound film. For the 1942 re-release Chaplin composed and recorded a musical score, added a narration (his own voice) and tightened the editing. Since the film was originally shot at 18 frames per second, the sound version, shown at 24 frames per second, is both shorter and faster than the original silent screenings. This has the side effect of making Chaplin's slapstick routines appear more frantic than before, a fact that had probably influenced Chaplin's decision to shoot Modern Times at silent speed. Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org. Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Produced by Charlie Chaplin (Uncredited). Written by Charlie Chaplin. Starring Charlie Chaplin. Distributed by United Artists. Release date(s) June 26, 1925 (USA). Running time 82 min (original), 72 min (1942 re-issue). Country: United States. Language: Silent film. English intertitles. Budget $923,000 (est.). 1942 re-release, with sound.
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Keywords, Tags :	Yosemite Wawona Hotel Tom Bopp Silent Movies Charlie Chaplin GOLD RUSH John Muir Henry Washburn
Video Length :	8 : 46

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This brings out the absolutely real feling of being at the Wawona hearing Tom - great job.. I've been going for 16 years and it's my idea of paradise. Tom is a treasure.

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