Longer Melodramas of Edwin Porter and the Theater Organ

Late Silent Era
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Longer Melodramas of Edwin Porter
Melodrama films are drama films characterized by stories organized to heighten the audience’s emotions through drama and music. Porter assembled his films into visual experiences organized in several separate shots in different locations through cross-cutting. Music is necessary to bring to life the swift-moving scenes that tell a story that exaggerates its melodrama and accentuates the emotional aspects of the film (Musser & Charles, 1991, pp. 22-23). Cue books would be preferable for such production. Cue books comprising collections of music organized by mood and genre would be effective in creating melodramas. The books are easy to acquire as one needs to buy them from organizations that produce them at a relatively cheaper cost when compared to hiring live musicians and composers to write individual songs. Since cue books are organized by their mood and genre, it makes it simple to identify and choose the tracks to score against each sequence of the movie, creating an emotionally thrilling film (Musser & Charles, 1991, pp. 22-23). Also, the books are effective in dramatic function. Melodrama films come in different shapes and forms, comprising high-intensity scenes of happiness, sadness, mystery, horror, and intense actions. Cue books can create harmony in the various scenes by bringing out different themes through diverse music collections.
The Theater Organ
A theater organ is arguably one of the unique American musical instruments of the 1900s. The instrument is a distinct kind of pipe organ consisting of pipes, keyboards, and pedals, developed in the 1900s by Robert Hope-Jones, an inventor and organist.
History
According to the American Theatre Organ Society (2021), the history of the Theatre Pipe Organ dates back to late 1920 when a new form of art, cinema...