Alfred Hitchcock's theme music
The theme music associated with Alfred Hitchcock is part of the sound recording.
Interesting.
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I thought that was interesting too.
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The song is called Funeral March of a Marionette. Alfred Hitchcock Presents didn't premier until the 1950's I believe.
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Yes, I realize this came first. Thanks for id-ing the music.
It was interesting to hear it, out of context (for me), and long before Hitchcock made his mark. I wonder if this movie influenced him, or stuck with him?
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Hitchcock was a great admirer of Murnau's...
http://books.google.com/books?id=P2ydVge4IiIC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=Hitchcock+Murnau+Sunrise&source=bl&ots=9SX0m5dq4l&sig=r635RuObtNdY-OCln1Jkp1I887w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3T97T9b1Lonh0QG47L20Bg&sqi=2&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Hitchcock%20Murnau%20Sunrise&f=false
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gounod
One of Gounod's short pieces for piano, "Funeral March of a Marionette", received a new and unexpected lease of life from 1955 when it was first used as the theme for the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The March was one of the eight records that Alfred Hitchcock selected to take to his desert island when he appeared on the BBC radio program Desert Island Disks in 1959. The March had earlier been used to produce equally suspenseful moments in F. W. Murnau's American silent film, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Harold Lloyd's first sound film, Welcome Danger (1929).Soundtracks for Welcome Danger (1929)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020572/soundtrack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/94e5 88c8
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There is also some music that was later used in Gone With the Wind.
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I knew that "Funeral March of a Marionette" predated the Hitchcock series and this film, and assumed that it was part of a soundtrack prepared for a modern release of the film. However, because of this post, I discovered this through the IMDB trivia:
"The first feature film released using the Fox Movietone system, it was the first professionally produced feature film with an actual sound track."
Fans of the film likely know that, but it was interesting to me to learn.