BGuthrie Photos: AFI -- Silent Cinema -- "Blackmail" (w/Alloy Orchestra)

AFI -- Silent Cinema -- "Blackmail" (w/Alloy Orchestra):

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Description of Pictures: BLACKMAIL (Silent Version)
Live Musical Accompaniment by Alloy Orchestra!
Originally made and released in 1929 as a silent film, BLACKMAIL was partly reshot and released that same year as the first British talkie. The enormous success of the sound version and the passing of the silent film era relegated the silent version to undeserved obscurity, and it was only recently rediscovered and restored. "Watching the original version of BLACKMAIL today confirms that what would be known as Hitchcock's first sound film was also his last and best silent film." – Rafael Film Center
DIR/SCR Alfred Hitchcock; SCR Benn W. Levy, based on the play by Charles Bennett; PROD John Maxwell. UK, 1929, b&w, 85 min. Silent with live accompaniment. NOT RATED

Alloy Orchestra
"The best in the world at accompanying silent films." – Roger Ebert
Alloy Orchestra is a three-man musical ensemble that writes and performs live accompaniment to classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects, they thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources. Performing at prestigious film festivals and cultural centers in the US and abroad (the Telluride Film Festival, Louvre, Lincoln Center, Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences, National Gallery of Art and others), Alloy has helped revive some of the great masterpieces of the silent era.

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- Alloy Orchestra (musical group) appears on:
  - 2019_MD_Metropolis_191116 AFI -- Silent Cinema -- "Metropolis" (w/Alloy Orchestra)
  - 2012_MD_Metropolis_120224 AFI -- Silent Cinema -- "Metropolis" (w/Alloy Orchestra)
  - 2011_MD_Phantom_111028 AFI -- Silent Cinema -- "Phantom of the Opera" (w/Alloy Orchestra)
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