#gmc31

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto / Pordenone Silent Film Festival
31^st Edition (6–13 October 2012)

Preliminary tweets before the festival

• Giornate del Cinema Muto di Pordenone / Pordenone Silent Film Festival (6–13 Octobre 2012)
  www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/allegati/GRID121b_19-09-12.pdf
• Waiting for the full programme, an inviting overview is already online
  www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/giornate/questa_edizione.html
• Part of the Catalogue is now online!
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• All the catalogue notes are now online! Please spare the time for a drink or two.
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• The daily schedule is online. Again: please spare some time for meeting people and eating!
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• «Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2012: Pre Highlights»
  bristolsilents.org.uk/2012/09/28/le-giornate-del-cinema-muto-2012-pre-highlights/
  (via @BristolSilents)
• And now, also the full catalogue is online:
  www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/allegati/GCM12_Catalogo_Web_2p_3ott.pdf
  (PDF file)

Tweets during the festival

• I appreciated Maud Nelissen’s scores for Les aventures de Robinson Crusoé by Georges Méliès (F 1902) and The Patsy by King Vidor
• I’m happy having met Joshua Yumibe IRL. His outstanding Moving Color is a reference for my next course:
  reto.ch/training/2013/201301
• A funny animation of matches today: I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X (Die geheimnisvolle Streichholzdose by Guido Seeber, D 1910).
• This afternoon interesting talk with Céline Ruvio about technical issues between #analogue and #digital. And cinema theatre #organs.
• Since yesterday I am wondering at what speed Fischer Olas Tiefseeabenteuer (D 1929) was screened: 21 fps?
• The restoration of The Goose Woman by Robert Gitt (UCLA) is really outstanding. He used two 16 mm diacetate copies.
• Why all those horizontal scratches in the middle of Dombey and Son by Maurice Elvey (GB 1917)? Improper handling?
• One and a half hours «Oh! Mother-in-law»!
• Sports of Many Lands (USA 1929) is a film in #Technicolor («A colorant picture») with interesting #red decomposition.
• I guess The Show of Shows (USA 1929) is indeed a great show… unfortunately only four seconds of it are preserved ;-(
• And How (USA 1930) shows a kind of pow wow. Colours and contrast aren’t gorgeous, and music is missing… Yet valuable #Technicolor test!
• The Stage-Coach Driver and the Girl contains some insider humour: the insert shot of the payroll letter (see the catalogue note).
• Autour des versions de Voyage autour d’une étoile de Gaston Velle: Pathé, France & Cines, Italy (1906) + 28 mm diacetate reduction.
• Yesterday dinner with the most distinguished party on earth! Sorry, I am not kidding you!
• I’ve been disappointed by the little content at the presentation of «The Manaki Brothers: A new digital restoration».
• «Are you ready for #digital #projection?» was a very good seminar by Torkell Sætervadet. Looking forward to the update of his bible!
• «Beware of White Papers!» ~ Torkell Sætervadet #WhitePaper #DCP
• Hans Steinhoff’s work need to be analysed more carefully. His Familientag im Hause Prellstein (D 1927) is quite interesting.
• Stephen Horne’s music accompaniment of Jenseits der Straße (Leo Mittler, D 1929) was very gorgeous. And I appreciated the film too.
• I would like to live in a city with an «Electric Bar». #ElectricBar
• I loved many intertitles of Jenseits der Straße, e.g. this one:
  

  Wer denkt darüber nach
  zwischen Mokka und Zigarre?

• The music accompaniment by John Sweeney for «Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre» – and the show itself – was a great experience for me!
• Unfortunately the DCP used for the «Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre» show was poor. The high number of visible digital errors has disturbed me.
• Lots of fascinating meetings: working on a Welt-Kinematograph programme for a next edition… Any suggestion is welcome!
• Due to the strikes in Italy the Pordenone Silent Film Festival has been extended by one month.
• You like in 5-perf square 35 mm images? Don’t miss Irela Núñez del Pozo’s book Henri-Joseph Joly: quando lo schermo era quadrato.
• Of all Soviet silent film star, Anna Sten (1906–1993) enjoyed the most breathtaking, unpredictable – and finally anti-climatic career.
• Lohnbuchhalter Kremke, the sole feature film directed by Marie Harder (D 1930), remembers me the actual financial crisis.
• Stürme der Leidenschaft by Robert Siodmak (D 1931) is a hybrid silent-sound film, having intertitles and sound, yet not a talkie.
• The very best speech at the closing evening was undoubtedly Pierre Étaix’: silent, precise, elegant and funny indeed!
• «You are a man in a million.» Today that’s one out of 6974. I’m wondering how was the situation at the end of silent cinema.
• Grazie mille to the organisers, staff and volunteers! Grazie mille to the pianists and musicians! Grazie mille to the audience!
• The 32^nd edition of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival will take place from 5^th to 12^th of October 2013. #gcm32

Additional tweet after the festival

• Thank you very much @silent_london for your posts tagged «Giornate del Cinema Muto»!
  silentlondon.co.uk/tag/giornate-del-cinema-muto/

2016-12-11