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Pipe organs in the movies! (updated)

wljmrbill

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sorry same on this clip too. Thanks for trying anyway.



"This video contains content from NBC Universal, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
 
sorry same on this clip too. Thanks for trying anyway.



"This video contains content from NBC Universal, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

But because I still want to share the clip i downloaded the audio from that part.
 
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windhorn

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She Fell Among Thieves

"She Fell Among Thieves," the BBC/WGBH adaptation of a Dornford Yates novel that was the very first "Mystery" program, has a marvellous organ score, and there is a wedding scene where we get to see the organ being pumped by hand as it is played by the forger and henchman Acorn (who is he and what was he in?). Don't know if that's the organ in the score.
 

smilingvox

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At the end of the movie, Brassed Off, the Grimsby Colliery brass band plays at Royal Albert Hall, which was really Birmingham City Hall where this was filmed. The big Wm. Hill organ rises above the band. Had never realized it was placed so high up.
 

Diode

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The French movie 'Je Te Mangerais' ('You will be mine'), 2008, has an excerpt from Franck's Chorale No 3 played live on a pipe organ (from memory about 20 minutes in). The organ looks fairly modern and has some superb reeds. Since the movie features piano students I assume that the organ may belong to a conservatory. The movie apparently won an award at the Montreal Festival, but I just wish the dialogue did not have to interrupt the music!

Diode --|>|--
 

Bbenu54

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The movie "the Bostonian " begins and ends with organ music and film includes close-ups of the performer.
 

smilingvox

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Newberry Memorial Organ, Yale U.

The other day, I watched Everybody's Fine. Robert DeNiro plays a father, whose grown-up children couldn't come home for a holiday, so he travels cross the country to see each of his kids. One son (Sam Rockwell), a musician, lives in Denver.

The music hall DeNiro walks into happens to be Woolsey Hall, where he meets Rockwell. Obviously, the great Skinner organ is in the movie. They probably have no idea how bleedin' powerful this instrument is.
 

smilingvox

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In the BBC movie, Jennie (1970's), the Fr. Willis at Blenheim is seen and (maybe) heard. ("maybe" meaning possibly having organ music dubbed in)
 

pcnd5584

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The performer, who was improvising so far as I am aware, was Nigel Allcoat.

This is correct. In fact, he was improvising a set of variations on the English National Anthem (perhaps better known as 'America'). The instrument used was that at Saint Augustine's, Kilburn, London. It was built in 1871 by 'Father' Henry Willis and rebuilt and enlarged by Harrison & Harrison in 1915, and again in 1923.
 

Daphnee

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Hello!

I need help trying to find the title of a (german?) movie:

Story with a slipper/shoe fell behind an immense organ in a church/cathedral... Atmosphere Gothic cathedral, organ...
The heroine (dancer girl?) loses a shoe and takes years to find him because he fell behind the organ...

Thank you for your help!

It is not:

-The Yellow Slippers
(1961) by Sylwester Checinski
-The Magic Galoshes (1986) by Juraj Herz
 
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