Monday Marseillaise Blogging
May 5th, 2008A very strange clip here combining the Stoa’s interest in Monday Marseillaise Blogging, and Lego…
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Monday Marseillaise Blogging (Special Tuesday Edition)
February 26th, 2008Here’s the French football team and the better part of a hundred thousand fans singing the Marseillaise before the start of the 1998 World Cup Final. (Starts at 5 minutes in; jump forwards to 5.48 or so for Jacques Chirac in full-throated song.)
Monday Marseillaise Blogging
February 18th, 2008Haven’t had any of this for a while. Here’s a bit of film from 1907:
David Bordwell writes, of a recent screening:
“There were many early attempts to record synchronous sound, though all too often the accompanying discs have been lost even if the image track survives. The 1907 films contained a few such, but one, La Marseillaise, had its singer’s original voice, remarkably clear and perfectly synchronized. The result was an unusually poignant and vivid sense of a link to a hundred-year-old performance, an immediacy that went beyond what most silent films can convey, wonderful though they might be.
Monday Marseillaise Blogging
July 16th, 2007From the end of what may be the greatest scene in the greatest film ever made: Rouget de Lisle teaches the Marseillaise to the people of Paris, in Abel Gance’s Napoleon:
