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San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Legong: Dance of the Virgins
With live score performed by Gamelan Sekar Jaya & Club Foot Orchestra
More Info & Tickets: http://www.silentfilm.org/pages/index/?catid=507
About the Film
LEGONG: DANCE OF THE VIRGINS
Plot Outline: In Bali, a young woman jumps to her death after being spurned by a young man, due
to the plotting of her half-sister.
Directed and Produced by.................Henri de la Falaise
Told by ................................................Henri de la Falaise and Gaston Glass
Cinematography by ...........................William H. Greene
Editing by ............................................Edward Schroeder
Titles by................................................Hampton Del Ruth
Music Supervisor ................................Abe Meyer
Orchestra Conductor..........................Sam K. Wineland
Production Company: ........................Bennett Pictures Corp. (Constance Bennett)
Distributed by .....................................DuWorld and Paramount International Corp.
Cast:
Poutou, the younger sister ................Goesti Poetoe Aloes
Nyoung, the gamelan musician ........Njoman Nyong
Poutou’s father ...................................Goesti Bagus Mara
Poutou’s sister Saplak ........................Njoman Saplak
Original distribution by Du World Pictures Inc. and Paramount Pictures. New York opening: October
1, 1935.
1935. Bali. Sound. 35mm. Runtime: 65 minutes. Language: English intertitles. Two-color Technicolor.
Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive.
About the Restoration & New Score
A new score was composed, performed and recorded for the 1935 film, Legong, Dance of the Virgins. Composed by I Made Subandi (Guest Music Director of GSJ in 1999) and Richard Marriott (Musical Director of CF), the score was performed in New York and San Francisco to packed audiences and rave reviews. A studio recording was completed in 2001.
Legong: Dance of the Virgins was painstakingly reconstructed in 1992 by the UCLA Film and Television Archives using censored prints from the United States, Britain, and Canada. Originally distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation, the film was later duplicated and spliced with the remaining negatives of existing prints from Canada, England, and the United States, and ultimately restored to its complete length. The original, restored print was first shown at the 5th UCLA Festival of Preservation, on April 25, 1993.
The original score for the movie was composed in the style of its time with traditional Western instrumentation. The new score was composed using both Western and Balinese instruments and utilizes not only Balinese instrumentation and styling, but modern sounds and techniques as well.