Looking for Their Purple Moment super 8 scored music track

[Jim Schrader]

I have an 8mm sound version but only listened to it once before I sold my 8mm unit was there ever a super 8 version scored?

[Joe Caruso]

No, Blackhawk did not offer a scored edition, know of no Std 8 Sound version you mention...must have been from another distributor....Shorty

[Brian Harrington]

There was no original Victor soundtrack disk for that one, either. Perhaps someone had their print striped and made a home-made soundtrack.

[Jim Schrader]

Thanks I’ve seen vhs tapes available on eBay with authentic Hal Roach music that’s what made me think if there was ever a super 8 version.

[Brian Harrington]

Those "Lost Films of L&H" tapes and DVDs just recycled music from the handful of L&H silents that had Victor discs. So they really aren't authentic to most of the shorts they are applied to.

I believe in Europe the L&H silents DVDs used Beau Hunks music instead -- also not authentic since that music was written by LeRoy Shiled for the Roach talkies, including Our Gang, Charley Chase, and Thelma Todd. Plus, it was re-recorded in the 90s, not the 20s or 30s.

[Joerg Polzfusz]

Hi!
There‘s a version with score on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/their-purple-moment_1928
Not sure whether the music is authentic and whether the video matches the S8-version.

Good luck!

[Joe Caruso]

This was used as early as 1930, but no, not for PURPLE...simply was no vitaphone disc attached to this short..that didn't start in earnest until '29, with the exception of the 1928 WE FAW DOWN disc, discovered a year or so ago...of course, by that time there was no Super 8/Blackhawk release

[Brian Harrington]

Hi!
There‘s a version with score on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/their-purple-moment_1928
Not sure whether the music is authentic and whether the video matches the S8-version.

Good luck!

That's music recorded by The Beau Hunks, so it is not authentic, if authentic is taken to mean the score that originally was recorded for the film. Other than theater music on piano, organ or orchestra perhaps played, live, in 1928, THEIR PURPLE MOMENT never had a music score recorded by the Hal Roach Studio.

As previously mentioned, The Beau Hunks recreated music that was written in the 30s for Roach talkies.

Blackhawk did, occassionally for popular titles, create their own music tracks for silent films for L&H and others. C.F. BIG BUSINESS, TWO TARS, LIBERTY, HABEAS CORPUS, and YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN'. At one point, Blackhawk replaced their own score with that of the original Victor disc for LIBERTY. They also released THAT'S MY WIFE and BACON GRABBERS with the original Victor music. I think for WRONG AGAIN as well.

Unfortunately, Blackhawk re-cycled their own music tracks among L&H shorts and others, so if you have, for example, TWO TARS and LIBERTY (with the Blackhawk music), it gets monotonous. And some of that music was also present on The Three Stooges last film, KOOK'S TOUR.

In fact, Blackhawk's "custom" music was often from the Valentino music library, as well as other libraries, so it wasn't unique to Blackhawk.

They did commision Gaylord Carter to compose and play organ music for silents such as THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and STEAMBOAT BILL, JR., but for some reason never did it for a L&H silent film. I guess they felt "needle drops" were good enough for the boys, lol.

BTW, "Vitaphone" discs were for Warner Brothers Vitaphone movies; Hal Roach used Victor (RCA) equipment to record their soundtracks, which were then issued on Victor discs to sync up with the 35mm theater projectors via a turntable. That being said, you will find people using the term "Vitaphone disc" as a generic term like Xerox, Kleenex, Roller Blades, Band-Aids, etc.