Talk:Street Angel (1928 film)

"Street Angel" had a "Movietone" (sound on film) score. Nothing in the article about it.

"Although not listed in the film's credits, Street Angel uses a Movietone score recorded specifically for the film at that time, as did a number of other Fox films such as Sunrise. Fox's Movietone (sound-on-film) and Warner's Vitaphone (sound-on-disc) soundtracks were less expensive for theaters to use than live orchestra accompaniment and also offered greater uniformity of product. The original program notes for Street Angel list the theater chain mogul and radio personality Samuel L. "Roxy" Rothafel as the composer along with Ernö Rapée. According to film historian Ross Melnick, Rothafel began his partnership with Fox in 1925 when the studio purchased a controlling share of his Roxy Theatre in New York and agreed to let Rothafel to remain the theater's musical director. Together with his longtime collaborators Rapée and Hugo Riesenfeld, Rothafel created orchestral arrangements (with some newly composed themes) for many of the early Movietone scores. While such soundtracks may not have used synchronized dialogue yet, they did frequently include sound effects; in the case of Street Angel, we hear Gino and Angela whistling the tune "O sole mio" as an expression of their love, and the whistling is loosely synchronized with the action onscreen.""

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/359287%7C0/Street-Angel.html

23:28, 11 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.48.111.241 (talk)


 * Fixed! IMDb says Street Angel was the first sound film shown in New Zealand. It was also the first in Canada, opening on 1 September 1928 at the Palace Theatre (1921), Montreal. (Dane Lanken, Montreal Movie Palaces, 1993.) –Justinbb (talk) 03:04, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Movie banned in Italy and other countries
I happened to come across this:

The New York Times, February 23, 1929, reported that a showing of the film "Street Angel" in Pressburg (now Bratislava) was canceled. The film was banned in Italy because "the film, by presenting Italian carabineri in a false light, was calculated to damage the moral prestige of Italy." The Pressburg showing was called off because of a protest from the Italian government.

It sounds like there was some controversy about the film that ought to be mentioned in the article. Kestenbaum (talk) 06:22, 21 December 2015 (UTC)