Joe Rinaudo accompanies a silent movie on the Style 41 Special Fotoplayer
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- As part of the AMICA/MBSI joint convention, we were treated to this wonderful performance by Joe Rinaudo. It was part of a program of several silent movies that he narrated using the Fotoplayer.
The event took place at the Pickford Center in Hollywood. Home of the Academy of Motion Pictures film archive.
When the world needed him most, he returned
Haven't seen Joe play the Fotoplayer in a long time and have missed his content on UA-cam. Interesting to actually see the process while accompanying a silent film. Keeps him busy, that's for sure.
This was gorgeous to watch.
Fantastic! The organ's tuning is amazing...
Wait! What? That is my cousin Gary organizing the music rolls....Wow! I am amazed!
awesome to see him still alive!
Joe, It is so wonderful to see you and Gary again! I love how your hard work and dedication to the project has brought you to fulfilling this dream. We love you and miss you, Scott and Annemarie Lloyd!
Good to see Joe with some new stuff, had not seen anything current from him and was worried something had happened to him. A master at work!
Joe posts updates on occasion to his Facebook page.
I love Joes videos and his photoplayer.
What an incredible effort to keep the musical accompaniment playing and all the work and preparation put into making this all happen. Thank you so much Joe and all your helpers to keep the continuity going. It's truly wonderful to see how it was all done in the early days of film.
Absolutely wonderful!!!
FANTASTIC!!!!
Glad to see he’s still going strong since the Huell Hauser episode way back when.
Hit it Joe!
It was great seeing these films and hearing the Fotoplayer at the picture show at the AMICA / MBSI convention!
Joe, Dave and crew spent about 10 years restoring this instrument from a very derelict condition back to its original glory for the academy, and I am glad it again had an appropriate home in a theatre.
My one and only gripe is that the Fotoplayer was not expressive in this performance (due to having the swell fronts off the side cabinets, so spectators in the anteroom could watch the "action" of all the sound effects and percussions that are normally hidden away, such as in this video). Therefore, when any pipe rank or tuned percussion (xylophone or bells) was used, it played forte or fortissimo throughout (with the exception of the manual-pull percussions and sound effects). As a musician, I worried whether this might turn any other musicians in the audience, off to the charms of the Fotoplayer.
However I do realize that exposure to these instruments is key to their continued survival (given the horrendously high number of these instruments that were junked in the past 90 years), and also that probably a lot of people wanted to watch the fascinating devices in the sode cabinets, so Joe obliged. "Know your audience", or something.
Also, I am not at all sure there was enough time (or budget) to have custom glass or clear plastic swell shades made and installed in the side cabinets before this particular show.
Maybe that is something they would want to do for future ones.
I will say that the theatre was clean and the staff polite and accomodating,
and speaking again as a musician,
my hat is off to Joe for the good way he played these pictures, using the rolls.
His choice of music, cue changes, perfectly timed sound effects, and especially tempo changes, really helped enhance each picture, and draw viewers into the plot of the sci-fi and comedy pictures that were shown.
I heard he spent weeks (or months) practicing for this performance, and I think it paid off!
First tune is "That's My Weakness Now"
judging by their hindheads, there are two Joes. that's great, I was of the assumption that only one Joe Rinaudo was already God working his might at peak performance level, but having a backup makes me sleep a hell of a lot easier.
The original Hitech producer.
Wrangling all those rolls is a lot of work!
@@DuoArtOrgan my personal favorite of Mr. Rinaudos work is the corona quarantine concert at 01:02:20 to 01:02:30 where he bashes the instrument with so much vigor it feels like the fotoplayer was personally responsible for his mom's death.
@@DuoArtOrgan Joe is a true roll wrangler lol
Although your comment is definitely hilarious as well as complimentary, I can confirm that the "2nd Joe" getting things ready for him, is actually his longtime assistant Gary, who also helps out for the picture shows with the vintage projectors.
Very nice
Followed by "Bow-Wow"
Yes Joe had two versions of "Bow-Wow" to use: the QRS word roll played by J. Russel Robinson; and I *think* the second version was either a Connorized or Pianostyle arrangement.
OMG into Schubert's "Erlkong" what next?
Special effects😂 where pass the sound into people room?
The staff at the Mary Pickford Theater had recording equipment set up to capture the sound of the Fotoplayer in the anteroom, and this was piped into the other room via a sound mixing board / amplifier and speakers, which is what we (the audience) actually heard in the theatre, though some of the real time sound also filtered in acoustically through the theatre auditorium doors.
I presume they had to set it up like this due to the lack of an orchestra pit in the theatre, but I could be wrong. I didn't ask.
As you can see, Joe had a closed-circuit monitor showing the picture in real time so he could follow along; in turn, the audience had a closed circuit monitor of the Fotoplayer in the lower right of the screen in the auditorium, if they also wanted to watch what Joe was doing without leaving the room.
Fantastic Video Great Job Joe What Was The name Of The Charley Chase Film😊 Running One Of Those Fotoplayers Was A High Stress Job 😊
That must be a big deal to haul around to each gig...
This Fotoplayer belongs to the Academy of Motion Pictures and resides permanently at the Pickford Center.