© Copyright Mary Pickford Institute
04.10.2008 [20.30]
Evento musicale di apertura / Opening musical event
In collaborazione con / In cooperation with
The Mary Pickford Foundation, The Library of Congress, TimelineFilms
SPARROWS (Passerotti) (The Pickford Corporation, US 1926)
Prod: Mary Pickford; regia/dir: William Beaudine, collab: Tom McNamara, Carl Harbaugh, Earle Browne; sogg./orig. story: Winifred Dunn, ad: C. Gardner Sullivan; didascalie/intertitles: George Marion, Jr.; f./ph: Charles Rosher, Hal Mohr, Karl Struss; scg./des: Harry Oliver; mont./ed: Harold McLernon; effetti elettrici/electrical effects: William S. Johnson; dist: United Artists Corporation; cast: Mary Pickford (Mama Molly), Roy Stewart (Dennis Wayne), Mary Louise Miller (Doris Wayne), Gustav von Seyffertitz (Mr. Grimes), Charlotte Mineau (Mrs. Grimes), Walter “Spec” O’Donnell (Ambrose), Lloyd Whitcock (Bailey); bambini/the children: Billy Butts, Monty O’Grady, Jack Lavine, Billy Jones, Muriel McCormac, Florence Rogan, Mary Frances McLain, Sylvia Bernard, Seesel Ann Johnson, Cammilla Johnson; première: 14.5.1926, Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood; lg. or./orig. l: 7763 ft. (9 rls.); 35mm, ?? ft., 85’ (21 fps), imbibito/tinted; fonte copia/print source: Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Restauro/Restored 2006.
Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles
Musica composta da / Score composed by Jeffrey Silverman
eseguita per la prima volta dal vivo da / performed live for the first time by
Orchestra Sinfonica del Friuli Venezia Giulia
diretta da / conducted by Hugh Munro Neely
"Interpretazione perfettissima … Direzione artistica e messinscena bellissima e curata, fotografia nitida. Pubblico numeroso e molto soddisfatto." (La Vita Cinematografica, 6/1927, cit. in Vittorio Martinelli, L'eterna invasione, 2002)
Scheda del film / Programme note by Jeffrey Vance & Tony Maietta
Conductor Hugh Munroe Neely on the score:
"This performance marks the premiere of a new symphonic score for Sparrows by Jeffrey Silverman, a Los Angeles based composer. Mr. Silverman’s previous scores for silent films include Scaramouche (1923), which was broadcast in the USA by Turner Classic Movies, and Tess of the Storm Country (1922), released on DVD by Milestone Films. For this new score, the composer has employed an expansive harmonic palette that is as atmospheric, in its own way, as the fantastic settings designed by Harry Oliver for the film itself. The orchestra employs a compact woodwind section, full brass, percussion, piano and harp, in addition to a relatively large string section."
