[Tango-L] The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

[Ming Mar]

If you've never seen the 1921 silent film _The Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse_ (_Los cuatro jinetes del
Apocalipsis_) with Rudolf Valentino, you can get a
free copy from <http://es.arcoiris.tv/>.

Arcoiris is a source of free videos, and
es.arcoiris.tv contains the Spanish language videos. 
You'll find videos about tango and Buenos Aires there.
 Unfortunately, in many of these videos, the audio and
the video are not synchronized.

To get the video, type "jinetes" in the search box and
click "buscar."  Then, download the video in the
format you prefer.

The original English version (i.e.:  with English
inter-titles) was 134 minutes long and the original
Spanish version (with Spanish inter-titles) was 150
minutes long.  The Arcoiris version is only 113
minutes long.  It's a cut version of the English
version with Spanish subtitles.  

Tango appears twice.  Eight minutes into the video, we
see Julio (Valentino's character) dancing the tango in
a tavern in La Boca.  Then, 34 minutes into the video,
we see a few seconds of tango in Julio's tango tea in
pre-war Paris.  

There's a small anachronism in the video.  The music
in the video during the tango tea is _La Cumparsita_. 
It was written in c.1916, after the war started.  I
don't know if the music in this video is the same as
the music that was played in the cinemas in 1921.  I
would assume that in 1921 _La Cumparsita_ was new
enough that someone would have known that it hadn't
existed before the war.

The theme music for the four horsemen of the
Apocalypse is the _Ride of the Valkyries_.  This music
is also in _Apocalypse Now_.  I wonder if this is a
matter of coincidence or intent.

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