1 10 42 https://omeka.uottawa.ca/silentfilmmusiccanada/files/original/73e625992fd389901dc6b3cd41e26a15.jpeg b6d3a2327911f867b3fb005247b859a2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This collection includes items pertaining to silent film music practice in Ottawa. It also includes items that shed light on theatre orchestras and musicians that played alongside films. Please click "Items in the Silent Film Music in Ottawa Collection" to explore the full collection. Title A name given to the resource Silent Film Music in Ottawa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'La vie de Boheme' at Flower [advertisement] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Flower theatre advertisement. Ottawa Journal. December 9 1916: 25. Microfilm from Ottawa Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1918 Description An account of the resource An advertisement for a showing of William A. Brady's version of 'La vie de Boheme' at the Flower describes the "better kind of music" provided by pianist Norton H. Payne, who accompanied the film with "the complete musical score of Puccini's opera 'La Boheme'". Inscription: Bohemian Atmosphere: A photoplay adaptation of Henry Murger's wonderful book "La Vie de Boheme," which depicts more accurately than any other work, the true mode of living, the pains and the joys of a carefree people their ideal in life, their deep feeling of love and emotions, a masterpiece of literature made into a photoplay masterpiece through the genius of the charming young artist, Alice Brady and her director, Albert Capellani, assisted by a company of players especially chosen by William A. Brady to portray accurately the role called for in this great work. World-Pictures | Brady-Made | Coming | Kitty Gordon in Her Maternal Right | Robert Warwick in Sudden Riches | Holbrook Blinn in Weakness of Man | Clara Kimball Young in The Feast of Life | House Peters in The Rail Raider | Alice Brady in Tangled Fates | Robt. Warwick in Friday the 13th | Gall Kane in The Man Who Stood Still | Clara Kimball Young in The Dark Silence Flower | Mon. Tues. Wed | Regal Film Corporation Through William A. Brady in association with the World Film Corporation presents "The Biggest Event of the Season" | Alice Brady as "Mimi" in a Picturization of Henry Murger's Famous Book of Intimate Bohemian Life | La vie de Boheme | In 6 Acts | Coming --- Dec. 18, 19, 20 | Kitty Gordon in "Her Maternal Right" Special Music | Mr. Norton H. Payne, T.C.L. who is generally accorded to be one of Ottawa's cleverest concert pianists, will render, on an Erard Grand Piano, the complete musical score of Puccini's opera, "La Boheme." The composer's work to the story, "La Vie de Boheme" is known the world over, especially "The Muzetta" from Act 2 | Mr. Payne understands the composer's moods thoroughly in his opera, as he was one of the few to be allowed to attend the rehearsals at "Convent Garden," London, Eng, previous to its appearance there. | So those lovers of the better kind of music will in no way be disappointed at Mr. Payne's recital each day from 2-5 and 7.30-10.30 p.m. Wm. A. Brady | The activities of William A. Brady at the World Film Corporation is best typified by the expressions he has made to the daily papers since his installation there as the directing head. | To Archie Bell o the Cleveland Leader, he said that he would now devote the major part of his time to pictures because he feels that they have a greater field and that that field cannot be ruined by cheap, sensational and salacious films and he believes many persons prefer the films because they can see such productions as Tolstoi's "Resurrection" when they do not have time to read the book and that he saw great literary possibilities in films for the public. | With the idea in mind of catering exclusively to the higher tastes of the photoplay patrons at large, Mr. Brady's forthcoming productions demonstrate his sincerity and further the distinct personality of his original ideas. | He has formed a happy blending of players of stellar magnitude, noted artists and costing of more than one star to each production, so that the casts balance in every instance, as has always characterised the Brady stage productions. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/silentfilmmusiccanada/files/original/a9bf68d17dcee784f130e991a57095c7.jpeg e6fa6fdda3560fa9e214618e79dca583 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This collection includes items pertaining to silent film music practice in Ottawa. It also includes items that shed light on theatre orchestras and musicians that played alongside films. Please click "Items in the Silent Film Music in Ottawa Collection" to explore the full collection. Title A name given to the resource Silent Film Music in Ottawa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'Les Miserables' at the Centre [advertisement] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Centre advertisement. Ottawa Journal. November 7 1927: 7. Microfilm from Ottawa Public Library Description An account of the resource An advertisement for showings of Les Miserables at the Centre note that the Centre Orchestra will be playing "Special Music" and Wagner's "Tannajuser" overture. Inscription: Centre | Never Such Drama | Now Playing | No Advance in Prices | Matinees, 15c and 25c | Evenings, 25c and 40c | Evening Prices Prevail Thanksgiving Afternoon | Special Music by the Famous Centre Orchestra | Overture - "Tannajuser" by Wagner All the World is Waiting For It! | Carl Laemmle presents | Victor Hugo's Immortal Successor to The Hunchback of Notre Dame! | Les Miserables | A Universal Film de France Triumph The Greatest Drama of all Time ! | Romance! - Revolution! - Love that counts no costs! - Romance as sweet as any story ever told! - All in the spectacular picture that all the world has been waiting for! - France's own production of the tempestuous story of gay glittering Paris in the rumour of revolution! - The greatest human drama literature has known! You Don't Know --- | what drama is until you have seen Jean Valjean's heroic rise from disgrace to untold glory - the torn heart of Cosette - the thrilling rescue of Javert - the desperate fighting, horror, and turmoil of the French Revolution! It's masterful-gigantic! Conceived by the magnificent imagination of Victor Hugo, the Master, this great and moving story of humanity oppressed and triumphant marks one of the screen's most colossal achievements. Laid in France at the time the nation was awakening from its nightmare of horror, you will be terrified and amazed at the gripping realism with which this superb all-French cast portrays the characters of this immortal literary epic. | Truly An Immortal Film Masterpiece! Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1927 https://omeka.uottawa.ca/silentfilmmusiccanada/files/original/88e7e90105423f92c2e7c52545023f43.png 6ed22f83da2495a4860dc17c65ada3d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This collection includes items pertaining to silent film music practice in Ottawa. It also includes items that shed light on theatre orchestras and musicians that played alongside films. Please click "Items in the Silent Film Music in Ottawa Collection" to explore the full collection. Title A name given to the resource Silent Film Music in Ottawa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 'The Miracle Man' at Francais [advertisement] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Francais theatre advertisement. Ottawa Journal. December 24 1920: 15. Microfilm from Ottawa Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1920 Description An account of the resource An advertisement for the Christmas Eve and Christmas showings of "The Miracle Man" mentions the additional feature of Christmas music played by the "Francais Concert Orchestra". Inscription: Dalhousie St. | Francais To-day and Xmas Day | All-Star Cast in "The Miracle Man" | Other added features | Special music Xmas day by the Fracas Concert Orchestra Next Monday - Tuesday | All-Star Cast in "Are You Legally Married?" Wednesday - Thursday | Lucy cotton - Ryndham Standing in The Miracle of Love" Friday - Saturday | Big Cast in "The Island of Regeneration" Popular Prices | Matinee 10c - Evenings 15c-20c. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/silentfilmmusiccanada/files/original/287f8add31529977f8eab4314be583c1.png ce349c2c27ebb63d48024fd367103fd1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This collection includes items pertaining to silent film music practice in Ottawa. It also includes items that shed light on theatre orchestras and musicians that played alongside films. Please click "Items in the Silent Film Music in Ottawa Collection" to explore the full collection. Title A name given to the resource Silent Film Music in Ottawa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "'Birth of a Nation' Pictures Next Week" [newspaper article with image] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "'Birth of a Nation' Pictures Next Week." Ottawa Journal. November 20 1915: 9. Microfilm from Ottawa Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1915 Description An account of the resource This article on the Regent's showing of "The Birth of a Nation" describes "a new kind of grand opera" and includes an image of a large orchestra. The article only briefly mentions the "opposition aroused by the film" and otherwise links the musical score to the film's controversial themes and plot without criticism: "Now grave, now gay, no sounding the loud diapason of war, again sweetly harmonising love's sighs and rhapsodies; anon bringing back old plantation melodies, or the crash of riot and rapine, or the welcome Ku Klux Klan call that fell so gratefully on the ear of Southern whites sorely oppressed by the 'servants in the master's hall' - it fits the changing scenes of the story like a flowing beautiful garment. " Inscription: "Birth of a Nation" Pictures Next Week | Wonderful Production Cost Half a Million Dollars to Make | Thousands of People and Horses Appear | Thrilling Events of Great Civil War Depicted in a Truthful Manner. David W. Griffith's epoch-making spectacle, "The Firth of a Nation," following its record-breaking runs in New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles, will be seen in one of its original productions at the Russell Theatre all next week with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. This work, partly for the nature of the new art, partly from the opposition aroused, has excited keen curiosity and the extraordinary advance sale indicates that the playhouse will be crowded. "The Birth of a Nation" tells by film and music the story of a nation re-born through the storm and stress of internecine strife. Instead of the four to six scenes of the conventional play, its technique permits of filming literally thousands of scenes and covering a wide range of history and characters. Slavery, the prime cause of the war; Lincoln's call for troops to subdue the Southern States; the ball on the eve of the Bull Run, and the first triumph of Confederate arms; the devastation wrought by Sherman's march and the awful ordeal of the Siege of Petersburg; Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox; the assassination of the Federal President; the harsh Radical policy to the stricken South; the uprising of the Ku Klux Klan, and the overthrow of the carpet-bagger regime - these great factors and events pass in review before the thrilled spectators The Love Story | The love interest of the play is based on the friendships between the Camerons of South Carolina and the Stonemans of Pennsylvania, two families involved in the struggle. Ben Cameron, the gallant clansman of the Dixon stories appears again in the role of romantic hero; the piquant Northern girl, Elsie Stoneman, as the heroine. Mr. Griffith took most of the scenes in the great out-of-doors, where Nature painted the backgrounds and army men directed the battle campaigns. The notable indoor scenes, like Ford's Theatre on the night of the Lincoln tragedy, the peace at Appomattox, and the South Carolina legislature of 1870, are exact facsimiles of the originals. Altogether it is the first time in art-production that history in the large has been presented in living pictures. to do this many times the amount of the time, energy and expense usually devoted to amusement enterprises had to be used. Eighteen thousand people and 3,000 horses appear in the picture, which cost approximately $500,000 to produce. Of equal importance to the scenes is the music that interprets them. It consists of an elaborate symphonic score arranged after Griffith's suggestions of the musical motifs for the leading characters. Now grave, now gay, no sounding the loud diapason of war, again sweetly harmonising love's sighs and rhapsodies; anon bringing back old plantation melodies, or the crash of riot and rapine, or the welcome Ku Klux Klan call that fell so gratefully on the ear of Southern whites sorely oppressed by the "servants in the master's hall" - it fits the changing scenes of the story like a flowing beautiful garment. The marriage of this music to the film best of all entitled the producer to his well-earned laurel of having created a new art; a new kind of grand opera, so to speak, that had not even been conceived before. Symphony Orchestra with "The Birth of a Nation," at the Russell all next week. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/silentfilmmusiccanada/files/original/69ee50ce1b9984730fd66c80f38265da.jpeg 0fce0d033c34a9ff1b6a7c717ac98bc9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This collection includes items pertaining to silent film music practice in Ottawa. It also includes items that shed light on theatre orchestras and musicians that played alongside films. Please click "Items in the Silent Film Music in Ottawa Collection" to explore the full collection. Title A name given to the resource Silent Film Music in Ottawa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St. George's Hall and Nickel Theatre advertisement Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1910 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived St. George's Hall and Nickel Theatre advertisement. Ottawa Journal. January 10 1910: 2. Microfilm from Ottawa Public Library Description An account of the resource This advertisement for the opening night of the St. George's Hall promotes "Special Pictures, Special Songs, Special Singers." Inscription: To-Night Grand Opening | St. George's Hall | Bank Street. | Special Pictures, Special Songs, Special Singers. | Doors open at 7 p.m. | Get There Early! Special Night | Nickel Theatre | Albert Street | The Highlanders' Defiance. | The last of the Boer war series of pictures and it's the best. 5c. | Both Houses Under the Same Management. | Both Shows Entirely Different. | Ken. E. Finlay, Manager. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/silentfilmmusiccanada/files/original/9f711f91e879c03fc0e225315728fd14.jpeg 1bc563c0d19c8d5d8fde25244a0b7b15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This collection includes items pertaining to silent film music practice in Ottawa. It also includes items that shed light on theatre orchestras and musicians that played alongside films. Please click "Items in the Silent Film Music in Ottawa Collection" to explore the full collection. Title A name given to the resource Silent Film Music in Ottawa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Special Music for 'Bagdad' Film" [newspaper article] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Special Music for 'Bagdad' Film." Ottawa Journal. January 30 1926: 15. Microfilm from Ottawa Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1926 Description An account of the resource A rare mention of an original film music score comes up in this article on the Français' showing of The Thief of Bagdad. Inscription: Special Music for 'Bagdad' Film | A successful effort to retrieve the spirit of the ancient Bagdad melodies was made by Mortimer Wilson, conductor-composer of New York, who wrote the musical score for Douglas Fairbanks' "The Thief of Bagdad," which comes to the Francais Theatre for two days, commencing next Monday. the stories the aged story tellers of Bagdad related around the blazing fires to camel drivers and travellers centuries ago have been preserved in "The Arabian Nights," but the music of that day has been lost forever. Mortimer Wilson reincarnated it. He has caught all the romance, beauty, colour, and glitter of that ancient city and interpreted it in terms of notes and bars. The success of his efforts is due to the fact that he took his inspiration directly from the picture, viewing each scene shortly after it was taken and then setting his impressions to music. https://omeka.uottawa.ca/silentfilmmusiccanada/files/original/13e3f58ce7b2addc47dd49e9328d2726.jpeg 6dbe0f262572a112a449976f7317c79b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This collection includes items pertaining to silent film music practice in Ottawa. It also includes items that shed light on theatre orchestras and musicians that played alongside films. Please click "Items in the Silent Film Music in Ottawa Collection" to explore the full collection. Title A name given to the resource Silent Film Music in Ottawa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Symphony Orchestra With Great Spectacle 'The Birth of a Nation'" [newspaper photograph] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Symphony Orchestra With Great Spectacle 'The Birth of a Nation.'" Ottawa Journal. November 25 1916: 10. Microfilm from Ottawa Public Library Description An account of the resource Photo of a "Symphony Orchestra of Picked soloists" for the Russell's 1916 showing of The Birth of a Nation. Inscription: Symphony Orchestra With Greta Spectacle "The Birth of a Nation." | The Symphony Orchestra of Picked soloists with the wonderful production "The Birth of a Nation" which will be seen at the Russell this afternoon and tonight. "The Birth of a Nation" cost $300,000 to produce, one thousand eight hundred people and three thousand horses being employed. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1916 https://omeka.uottawa.ca/silentfilmmusiccanada/files/original/6b9682dad0dd89997f62243ec307cf6c.jpg 626d73d45e37f07a693df5ba7ada7a34 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This collection includes items pertaining to silent film music practice in Ottawa. It also includes items that shed light on theatre orchestras and musicians that played alongside films. Please click "Items in the Silent Film Music in Ottawa Collection" to explore the full collection. Title A name given to the resource Silent Film Music in Ottawa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dalhousie Street and Theatre Francais, Ottawa, Canada [postcard] Description An account of the resource Postcard, 5.5 X 3.5 inches Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Dalhousie Street and Theatre Francais, Ottawa, Canada." Card Serial No. 111, 155 J.V.. Montreal and Toronto: Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co. Ltd, 1910. Printed in Great Britain. Baldwin Collection. Toronto Reference Library. PC-ON 1502. Note: The first mention of the Theatre Francais building in the Ottawa Journal was on February 20, 1913, and the opening was announced for June 23, 1913. Furthermore the 1912 Ottawa insurance plan describes the site being excavated as of May 1912. This suggests that the 1910 date provided for the Toronto Public Library entry is incorrect. Sources: "To Let," Ottawa Journal, February 20 1913: 7. Theatre Francais advertisement, Ottawa Journal, June 23 1913: 11. Insurance plan of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Volume 1, September 1902, revised 1912, sheet 22, Library and Archives Canada, R6990-513-2-E, MIKAN no. 3816030. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library. <a href="https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-PCR-1930&R=DC-PCR-1930" target="_blank">Click here for the Toronto Public Library description</a> https://omeka.uottawa.ca/silentfilmmusiccanada/files/original/d0a9cdaa5c512f5c573c692cd763a88a.jpg 0706649b0010be335d38b42d1ea5abbd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This collection includes items pertaining to silent film music practice in Ottawa. It also includes items that shed light on theatre orchestras and musicians that played alongside films. Please click "Items in the Silent Film Music in Ottawa Collection" to explore the full collection. Title A name given to the resource Silent Film Music in Ottawa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Basilica Male Choir Meets With Success at the Regent" [newspaper article] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived “Basilica Male Choir Meets With Success at the Regent: Synchronizing of Choir Voices With Action of Picture Proved Decided Novelty During Presentation of ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’,” Ottawa Journal, February 9, 1924: 16. Microfilm from Ottawa Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1924 Description An account of the resource A positive review of the Regent Orchestra and the Notre Dame Basilica Male Choir's performance alongside The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1924 noting. Inscription: Basilica Male Choir Meets With Success at the Regent | Synchronizing of Choir Voices With Action of Picture Proves Decided Novelty during Presentation of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." One of the best musical innovations ever presented in any motion picture theatre in Ottawa was introduced by Manager Cloakey in securing the Basilica Notre Dame Cathedral Male Choir, which delighted though sands of music lovers all week at this popular photoplay house, in conjunction with the local premiere of Victor Hugo's immortal drama, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." The beautiful quality and blending of the voices must be heard to be fully appreciated, which is enhanced by the arrangement of the prologue to the feature attraction. The atmosphere created by the choir is perfect, and the sychronizing of the voices to suit the action of the picture is arranged in a most novel manner. The Basilica choir has been engaged of the second week of the presentation of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and all those who have not seen this production or heard the choir will have the opportunity of doing so all next week. Special mention might also be made of the special musical score which is interpreted by the Regent Concert Orchestra under the direction of Mr. Rudolph Pelisek. It is one of the most difficult scores ever written for a picture, and the Regent Orchestra has the distinction of playing from the original score that was used on Broadway for the first presentation of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." https://omeka.uottawa.ca/silentfilmmusiccanada/files/original/053ecaec616427615826da2abe331365.jpg 0693bee9ca5f2738eee7c910d57f2537 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource This collection includes items pertaining to silent film music practice in Ottawa. It also includes items that shed light on theatre orchestras and musicians that played alongside films. Please click "Items in the Silent Film Music in Ottawa Collection" to explore the full collection. Title A name given to the resource Silent Film Music in Ottawa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Regent Theatre, N.W. corner of Bank and Sparks Street, Ottawa Ontario. February, 1918. [photograph] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Studio of William James Topley. “Regent Theatre, N.W. corner of Bank and Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario.” February 1918. Library and Archives Canada. PA-028126. MIKAN no. 3381032. <a href="https://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3381032" target="_blank">Click here to view Library and Archives Canada description.</a> Description An account of the resource A photo showing the interior of the Regent, with an American and a French flag can be seen just above the orchestra pit. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1918