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Needs English Subtitles and Names of folks being interviewed...


Nice bio...
BUT...
Needs subtitles when Thermin is being interviewed...he is very hard to understand...
AND
Needed captions of the people being interviewed. It would have been nice to know who was who without being a detective!

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I rented the DVD here in Japan last weekend.
This version has English subtitles when Theremin speaks, and all the captions of the people being interviewed are there.

I think it is a very important story. I was even "moved", at the end. A very nice documentary, better than the one about Moog.

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I must have seen the same version - subtitles (not needed) and interviewee captions.

It was, however, as another poster has pointed out, missing the Mickey Mouse Club segment.

All in all, however, a hilarious, spooky, and moving story.

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I rented this DVD from my library. (I was looking for a theremin CD, but found this instead.)

Not only should they have had subtitltes for Theremin while he was speaking English, my copy didn't even have subtitles for anyone speaking Russian. Only Spanish or French were available. Once in a while, in disbelief, I even tried the "subtitle" button on my remote, to no avail.

This film was obviously made in a professional manner; how could they have failed to identify the people involved, although it was possible to figure out who some of them were? I was familiar with Nicolas Slonimsky's writings, and I sure would have liked to know who he was while I was watching the film.

I, too, was missing the Mickey Mouse Club segment, but I noticed it listed in the credits! How strange that there are different versions of this DVD.

I knew something about Clara Rockmore because Robert Sherman, who is her nephew and Nadia Riesenberg's son, did a memorable show about his aunt and the theremin on WQXR several years ago. You should all read the fascinating article about Clara Rockmore in Wikipedia to see why she became a theremin virtuosa. She had been a child prodigy violinist who studied with Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg. There are also details about her technique.

I would have given the film a 10 if there were identifying captions and subtitles. Too bad. I feel that I missed about 1/3 of the content. But it's worth watching anyway. 7/10

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The version being shown on THIS TV has some subtitles, but doesn't ID many participants & has the Mickey Mouse segment.

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You claim that "This film was obviously made in a professional manner." I couldn't disagree more. First, where are the subtitles and captions for interviewees? Seems like pretty basic stuff to me. How could they miss it? The sound quality was hollow and not strong in many scenes. The 2nd half of the film just drags on and on, and looks like they had no pre-planned concept of how to use all the footage. Plus, it has a 70's look and feel to it, but was made in the early 90's. They had 15-20 years to do something more creative and interesting, but failed to do so. I've worked in TV for 17 years and have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to work on some documentaries, and I was very disappointed with this "film". For the time period when it was made, it was very amateurish.

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I wrote that four years ago, and now I have no idea what I meant. There must have been something about it that struck me as professional at the time, but I don't remember what it could have been. So I'm not going to try to defend myself. Maybe I was just so happy that anyone made this film at all...

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