The Cinematic Mash-Up Project, part 1.
Man With A Movie Camera (1929) vs. Cinematic Orchestra: Fight!
Recreating this experience at home is easy and educational, provided you know how to sync up the two sources. Man With A Movie Camera the film runs approximately 68 minutes, while Man With A Movie Camera the record totals out at just over an hour, leaving a deficit of around seven minutes.
Here's the solution: at the 37.20 mark in the film, a sequence begins with a shot of a steamboat whistle. Track 9 on the record ("Voyage") consists of two long blasts of a similar horn. Once these two watermarks are lined up, the rest of the mash-up is more or less spot-on. The difference between the two is 7.16, so enjoy a truly silent movie for a little bit before dropping in the alternate soundtrack.
Even without synchronization, the abstract, patchwork nature of Dziga Vertov's experimental day-in-the-life chronicle lends itself nicely to some of Cinematic Orchestra's more languid pieces("Dawn," "The Awakening Of A Woman," "All Things") as well as a couple of the more hyperkinetic ones("Theme De Yoyo," "The Animated Tripod").
Other than that, the movie is more or less the celluloid equivalent of a Rubik's Cube.
Next: Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance versus...?
More mash-ups here.
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Recreating this experience at home is easy and educational, provided you know how to sync up the two sources. Man With A Movie Camera the film runs approximately 68 minutes, while Man With A Movie Camera the record totals out at just over an hour, leaving a deficit of around seven minutes.
Here's the solution: at the 37.20 mark in the film, a sequence begins with a shot of a steamboat whistle. Track 9 on the record ("Voyage") consists of two long blasts of a similar horn. Once these two watermarks are lined up, the rest of the mash-up is more or less spot-on. The difference between the two is 7.16, so enjoy a truly silent movie for a little bit before dropping in the alternate soundtrack.
Even without synchronization, the abstract, patchwork nature of Dziga Vertov's experimental day-in-the-life chronicle lends itself nicely to some of Cinematic Orchestra's more languid pieces("Dawn," "The Awakening Of A Woman," "All Things") as well as a couple of the more hyperkinetic ones("Theme De Yoyo," "The Animated Tripod").
Other than that, the movie is more or less the celluloid equivalent of a Rubik's Cube.
Next: Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance versus...?
More mash-ups here.
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