Instrumentation
1(=picc).1.2(I=Ebcl.II=asax).1 - 2210 - perc(2):timps/cyms/susp.cym/glsp/tamb/tgl/drum kit/mar/guiro/cast/chimes/SD/BD/vib/tam-t/wdbl/xyl -pno(=cel+harmonium) - harp - strings
Availability
Full score and parts for hire
Programme Notes
Starring: Charles Chaplin
Director: Charles Chaplin
Production Company: First National USA, 1918
Duration: 18 minutes
Film Print: B&W print available from Roy Export Co.
(Film Speed: 20 frames per second)
Premiere with Davis's score: 1982, London
34 Players: I (=picc). I .2(I=Ebcl.II=asax). I - 2.3.1.0 – perc(2): (I=timp) - harp -
pno(=cel+harmonium) – strings (mm 6.4.4.3.2)
How to Make Movies features Charlie Chaplin rehearsing and preparing scenes in his own studio. He never Completed the film, but Kevin Brownlow found a Cutting order and edited it as Chaplin intended. Carl Davis's score emulates Chaplin's own style of Composition – Comedy mixed with sentiment - much influenced by English music-hall tradition.