Author: DougR
Date: 2005-11-16 14:44
I just did an "extra" job on a movie shooting locally, and the clarinetist in the "orchestra" was using a Rovner-BG-Eddie Daniels-esque fabric ligature. But the movie was set in 1939! I was sitting there as part of the "audience" & thinking to myself, Ohmigod, this is awful, what a gaffe, -- all the more so because the production had taken such huge pains to kit everyone out in period costumes, even down to passing out rimless wire-frame glasses. (I finally decided my "due diligence" extended just far enough to mention the gaffe to a props guy, and let him take it from there, which I did...he thought for a second, replied carefully "thank you very much, sir" very much in the tone of "I have a loonie on my hands here," and that was that.) So the sequence was shot, from many different camera setups, and all I could see was that damn ligature.
Anybody ever heard of Rovner-style fabric ligatures in 1939? What kind of setup would have been correct? Does anyone else notice that sort of thing, or am I just a crank? (actually, I KNOW I'm a crank; the question is rhetorical). This may be the most anachronistic use of musical equipment I've seen in a movie; anyone else have any others worth mentioning?
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