Exploring Silent Film Era Trap Drums with Nick White - EP 228

Nick White has the worlds largest collection of Silent Film Trap instruments, and he recently used them in the Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon. Nick shares some of his favorite instruments and sounds in this episode including automotive, train, animal, impact, and comedy sound effects, plus many more. Nick was on the show over 200 episodes ago and now he is back with more instruments and knowledge than ever before!
This "pre-talkie" period in movie history is fascinating and was a completely different than the world of working drummers we live in now. Each theater would have one (or more) drummers on staff to bring the motion pictures to life, but it all ended in 1927. It is also great to hear Nick discuss his time working on the most recent Martin Scorcese film, Killers of the Flower Moon, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and the scene Nick is in also features our old friend, Paul Wells.
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[@fepatton]

Fantastic interview and really great to _see_ these in action. I listened to the podcast and decided I had to see the video! This answers a question I've had for decades - I saw a catalog from the Acme whistle company once, and saw, among other things, a _lion_ "whistle" and I couldn't comprehend what that might be like. And here's the answer! So cool.

[@drumdiscussion7776]

Thanks Bart and Nick for an interesting discussion about silent movies, sound effects and percussion. These are really cool how they are produced and sound. Truly fascinating!

[@clementinelives]

Agreed!

[@DrumHistoryPodcast]

Absolutely - such great history! Thanks for watching

[@gordonhorn554]

Sick!

[@mlm5355]

This is absolutely fascinating. Thanks.

[@DrumHistoryPodcast]

Thanks for watching! These are such cool pieces of history

[@carbonc6065]

Nice!

[@KeyFobRob]

Nice!!

[@dooleysstill2616]

Amazing!

[@DrumHistoryPodcast]

Thanks for watching!

[@JackNiles]

Cool

[@DrumHistoryPodcast]

Thanks Jack!

[@John_Thompson]

Make your image about 1/4 the size it is now, and put it down in the corner. Give the subject matter the full screen.