Victor Young Scoring WELLS FARGO

This is a sequence from a 1937 Paramount short, narrated by Gayne Whitman, that chronicles Victor Young composing the musical score for Frank Lloyd's epic drama WELLS FARGO. Notable in this short are scenes that were deleted from the film soon after the original release. The film first played at 115 minutes and now survives only in a 97 minute cut. The bald fellow "helping" Young conduct is studio musical director Boris Morros, a Russian-born member of the American Communist Party who later founded Federal Films with William LeBaron and after that became a double agent for the FBI. This is a transfer from a 16mm reduction print. The hair at the top was in the 35mm gate when the neg was struck.