Charley Bowers in There It Is! | 1928 Silent film Comedy | Chamber Ensemble score by Maurice Saylor

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There It Is (1928)
Starring: Charley Bowers
Directors: Harold L. Muller, Charles R. Bowers (uncredited)
Writers: Charles R. Bowers (uncredited), Harold L. Muller (uncredited)
Distributed by Educational Pictures
Release Date: 1928 (USA)
Timing: 18:56

Synopsis of the wonderfully weird film: Scotland Yard detective Charley MacNeesha carries his constant companion MacGregor--who is either a hairy insect or a buggy-looking mouse--in a matchbox. The pair travels to New York to solve the case of the Fuzz-Faced Phantom who causes full-grown chickens to hatch from eggs, pots to rain from the ceiling, and pants to dance of their own volition in a surrealist comedy that anticipated Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel's "An Andalusian Dog" by more than a year.

Fun Fact: Buster Brodie (Max Broida, 1885-1948), who plays the Fuzz-Faced Phantom, was one of the winged monkeys in The Wizard of Oz!
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In 2004, the film was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress for its "cultural, aesthetic, or historical significance".

About the music: "There It Is" was my first film score for the Snark Ensemble and was originally scored for just three players: Woodwinds, Percussion, and Piano. The score heard here was done later for a much larger ensemble.

Maurice Saylor

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