Everybody Step in Musicolor
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by [?] Maurice Swaby Wetzel?
Cast: (unknown)
[?] Maurice Swaby Wetzel? production. / Song “Everybody Step” by Irving Berlin (arrangement by [?] Maurice Swaby Wetzel?). / © 13 May 1922 by Maurice Swaby Wetzel [MU2150]. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. [?] Color-tinted and color-toned?
Animation.
Synopsis: [Description submitted to the Library of Congress with the original copyright registration, received 13 May 1922] TITLE “EVERYBODY STEP IN MUSICOLOR” — A SYNCHRONIZED MOBILE COLOR ARRANGEMENT — A TEMPOCHROME STUDY OF IRVING BERLIN’S “EVERYBODY STEP” / A motion picture, not a photoplay, in color, which, when projected upon the screen expresses the melody and accompanying counterpoint of the musical composition known as “Everybody Step” composed by Irving Berlin and first produced in his “Music Box Revue”. / Granting that mobile color can be made esthetically expressive, the temptchromatic motion of the plurality of colors in every shapre, tint, size, angle, position, relation, value, perspective, combination and, in this motion picture, strictly a tempo succession, depict or express the introduction, verse, chorus, interlude, second chorus and coda, respectively, of the above-mentioned number. The musical score from which this film was by the copyright claimant, and not from the original piano copy or standard orchestrations of the composition. / This motion picture may be run on any standard motion picture projector and may be used in conjunction with or absolutely independent of the musical score being played on any instrument or instruments. However, it is strictly intended to be projected with and at the same time with the special arrangement for dance band or dance orchestra from which it was arranged and with which it is synchronized, with the idea of registering the optical effect on the eye simultaneously and a tempo with the aural effect on the ear drum. / This motion picture was made by a process similar to the cartoon movie, namely that of taking one picture (exposure) at a time, leaving the shutter closed while the object is being moved, and then exposing the next picture in order etc. The subjects photographed to produce the effects wanted and found in this film vary from paintings, drawings, movable flat designs, movable solid objects, and beams of light — thus making possible the miriad [sic] effects needed to esthetically express a given musical composition such as this in mobile color.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 September 2014.
References: LoC-MoPic-2 p. 226 : with additional information provided by Benjamin S. Beck.
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