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Yeah, I think that’s just part of the general dismantling that happened in the years following 1948, or rather the re-organization into something else.
Great list, Malte!
Well, I normally would count Golden Age until around 1959 and had totally missed that at first.
Well, there’s no 100% answer. But generally, 1948 is used as the cut-off point because the Paramount verdict ended vertical integration, and television challenged feature films. So it’s generally seen as the fall of the classical “Golden Age” Hollywood studio system; they at the very least had to re-think their strategy (with indie films, spectaculars etc.). But I know that the late, great David Bordwell extended the type of films made until about 1960 in his seminal book Classical Hollywood Cinema (1985), even if the studio system was rather different after ’48.
So just a convenient cut-off point for lists and recommendations like these.
Ugh. You’re right. Don’t know what happened there. Scrolling my iTunes collection too quickly, without double-checking dates, I suppose. Anyways, replaced with GULLIVER’S TRAVELS and THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO.
I always think it’s funny that so many film music fans of a certain age taped music off of the TV. I can understand it, as it was often the only way to get that music at the time. But I never did this myself.
I had to go search for your aborted review now, Sigjørn, and yes, found it — THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA! Didn’t quite do it for me, but it had some highlight tracks.
In addition to GET CARTER, I’m a fan of SOLDIER BLUE, FEAR IS THE KEY, MAN AT THE TOP and MAMA DRACULA.
Didn’t Joep speak about doing something similar, i.e. “blocking” his scores into categories for different styles? We should get Joep over here.
I think ‘must-have’ and ‘favourite’ are more or less interchangeable in this case. Must-haves to YOU. Listings of just classic, important scores would be far more boring.
Of course, the cutoff point at 1948 means that I can’t choose my favourite score by some of these. My favourite Waxman score is PEYTON PLACE, for example, but that came out in 1957 and hence too “new”.
Good to hear there’s some interest in here.
A few weeks ago, I did thread on under-the-radar synth scores on FSM — some pretty good recommendations in that. I pretty much exhausted my own collection in my 3-part list as well:
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=159135&forumID=1&archive=0
Great story, Alan.
I do remember a discussion we had in one of the Zoom chats, about how you were more into television in your formative years, than films. GET CARTER, for example, which would be right there in that period, but which never played any particular role in your life. When you talk about solitary existences and television, that kinda makes sense, because cinema-going is a very social activity. So whereas I automatically thought a film like GET CARTER (or its great Roy Budd score) would be a cornerstone of your early years, it really wasn’t. Please correct me if I’m misremembering here.
It’s one out of several LPs I got from my dad. Great stuff. Also love the inclusion of Wendy’s electronic musings. And no, that’s not OUR John Williams, but the guitarist.
