When I was in First Grade in Beaumont, Texas in 1951 students & teachers
were costumed & posed in a large picture frame on the
auditorium stage to re-create famous paintings - I was "Boy With a Rabbit,"
my former kindergarten teacher was "Whistler's Mother" &
"The Gleaners" & "Blueboy" were among the other "Living Pictures"
represented. Maybe the words of the song would aid in determining
whether it refers to these "Living Pictures" in which we had to pose
perfectly still or early motion pictures.
Jim
Cartwright
Immortal
Performances
jimcip at earthlink.net
EarthLink Revolves Around You.
> [Original Message]
> From: BruceY <Bruce78rpm at comcast.net>
> To: Antique Phonograph List <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
> Date: 09-Oct-2008 8:18:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] McGinty at the Living Pictures
>
> Two very nice additions to the list. What was the Difference between a
> Living Picture Show, as opposed to a Moving Picture show. I have tried to
> find an explanation on line but can't find one. I am just guessing, but
> maybe an early form of late 19th century amusement where the performers
> actually appeared on stage in a big giant frame in still form and then
came
> to life to perform? Just a guess, if anyone else knows please enlighten
me.
> I had never heard the reference to Living Pictures before and assumed it
was
> an early reference to the first motion pictures. An obvious mistake on my
> part.
>
> Bruce
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "john robles" <john9ten at pacbell.net>
> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] McGinty at the Living Pictures
>
>
> > Don't forget Billy Murray's great Blue Amberols 'He's Working in the
> > Movies Now' and 'Since Mother Goes to Movie Shows'.
> >
> > --- On Thu, 10/9/08, BruceY <Bruce78rpm at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > From: BruceY <Bruce78rpm at comcast.net>
> > Subject: [Phono-L] McGinty at the Living Pictures
> > To: phonolist at yahoogroups.com
> > Cc: Phono-l at oldcrank.org
> > Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 5:49 PM
> >
> > At a recent meeting of our MAPS chapter phonograph Society, one of our
> > members
> > demonstrated how early moving Pictures were shown using an Edison
> > Kinetoscope.
> > This brought to mind some of the early phonograph records made which
refer
> > to
> > early movies or motion pictures, some of which I have in my collection,
> > including "At the Moving Picture Ball" (on an Edison BA), Take your
> > Girlie to the Movies, on both Victor (by Billy Murray) & Columbia by
> > Irving
> > Kaufman, Ever Since the Movies learned to talk by Billy Murray, If I
had a
> > Talking Picture of you, by various artists, and the earliest "McGinty at
> > the Living Pictures" by Edward M. Favor on Columbia black wax two minute
> > Cylinder 32495. I am sure there are others, but I was curious if there
> > were any
> > earlier then the McGinty song which from what I understand was
originally
> > recorded by Favor in 1897, I believe my Columbia is a 1904 effort by
> > Favor. Also
> > feel free to add to the list of the others titles that I'm sure must
exist
> > from th
> > e first couple decades of the twentieth century.
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