[Tango-L] The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

[John Gleeson]

The original "Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse" was a silent movie. The soundtrack would have been provided locally at the cinema - 
typically by a piano or organ - and probably varied quite a lot between venues.
Any version with a music soundtrack included would have had the soundtrack added later.

I have a version with added music score - puchased on eBay - it uses neither "La Cumparsita" nor "Ride of the Valkyries"

Cheers, John G




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ming Mar" <ming_mar at yahoo.com>
To: <tango-l at mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 1:50 AM
Subject: [Tango-L] The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse


> 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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