09-28-2011, 11:36 AM | #1 | |
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Rin Tin Tin!
In light of the recent discussion of the Harry Potter dog, this new book might be of interest:
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, by Susan Orlean Quote:
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09-28-2011, 09:50 PM | #2 |
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The first Rin Tin Tin stared in silent movies only. He lost his job when talkies came along. If you watch these silent movies with Rin Tin Tin his expressions are incredible. the dog had to be incredibly intelligent and it comes through in his movies.
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09-28-2011, 11:12 PM | #3 |
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My familiarity with Rin Tin Tin is basically from the TV show in the fifties, which I think was Rin Tin Tin III. The Antenna TV network has been rerunning these shows on Sunday mornings, and I've been enjoying them immensely. I only had the vaguest notion of the earlier Rin Tin Tin.
I'm only 30 pages or so into the book, but it's quite interesting so far. |
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The author is doing a book signing in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, October 18, at a showing of Rin Tin Tin's 1925 silent movie Clash of the Wolves.
http://www.michtheater.org/events.php#susan |
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Butbut - why would whether the films were silents or talkies have mattered for him?
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She mentions that Rin Tin Tin would have had to be retrained for talkies--for silents, he would have been trained for voice commands, but for talkies, hand signals would have had to be used. But the interesting point she makes is that for silents, a dog actor could be basically equivalent to a human actor--neither of them spoke, the story was told through action and the story cards. But talkies gave the human actors an added dimension that the animals could never have. It took the focus off the animals and put it on the human actors. |
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Ah, interesting.
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