The Epinay-sur-Seine Theatre and Danse House newspaper article (french)
January to June 2005 page 6
Coutesy of the publication - Copyright 2005 Maison du Theatre et de la Danse
Mysteries
Cine-concert - 3 films
By the Orchestra of the Academy
Musical Direction Benoit Schlosberg
In 1907, settle in the Epinay-on-Seine Cinema Eclair studios. Nearly one century later, we are pleased to celebrate the cinema with its first police films, accompanied by the Epinay-sur-Seine Academy Orchestra. Composer, orchestrator, publisher, artistic director, Francois Serveniere has collaborated for several years with the Epinay-on-Seine municipal academy director, Benoit Schlosberg, around projects of silent film orchestration. "To work on silent films asks the composer to recover in a Jean Wiener' skin, to completely illustrate the cinematographic matter by expressionnist music. The nuance doesn't exist.
You have to return directly in the image and such a cartoon musician, to speak in the place of situations and characters." Francois Serveniere
Cagliostro
Camille de Morlhon and Gaston Velle's film (1910)
Francois Serveniere's music
Mixing alchemy, evocation of spirits, observation of nature, theosophy and other adventures, Joseph Balsamo names "Cagliostro" traversed Europe from 1777 to 1795, specially in London and Rome where he died. It was implicated in many stealing businesses including "the collar of the Queen" in 1786.
Zigomar contre Nick Carter
Victorin Jasset's film (1912)
Francois Serveniere's music
Creation "orders of the Epinay-sur-Seine Musical Academy". Cinema police fiction pioneer, Victorin Jasset turns numerous of its films at the Studios Eclair. It launches serial film. The Series Nick Carter, adapted of a serial-paper, inaugurate that will become the TV broadcast series. In this episode of the series will be played a fight without mercy between Zigomar, gangster of reputation, and its worst enemy, Nick Carter, a great American detective.
Les deux poltrons
Victorin Jasset's film
Benoit Schlosberg's music
Another Victorin Jasset' silent film, Les deux poltrons puts in movies the history of Lafrousse and Lavenette, two personnages as cowards one as other victims of various noises in
a house, they decide to flee by the chimney, persuaded that a regiment of criminals are with their cases...