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Haydn Wood's
compositions in films
Films in
which Haydn Wood's music is performed or listened to by the characters,
or is used as background music.
With Woody Allen, Alfred
Hitchcock, David Lean, and Steven Spielberg.
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Musical works are in alphabetical order.
Musical work date is the date of publication.
Film date is the production date, not the
release date.
Non
English-language films are
listed under their English title, with the original language title
following in brackets. Where a film has never been released with an
English title, it is listed under its original title with an English
translation following in square brackets.
A chronoligical discrepancy related to
a work by Haydn Wood in a film is mentioned as a curiosity.
Such a mention
is not judgmental.
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Bird of Love Divine (1912)
in This Happy Breed
directed by David Lean (UK, 1944)
London, 1925: the Gibbons are
celebrating Christmas. Frank and Ethel spend a moment together in the
dimly lit kitchen while their children and friends get together in the
living room with aunt Sylvia. The latter insists on singing a couple of
songs and accompanying herself at the piano. She sings—badly—Bird
of Love Divine, which Frank and Ethel can hear through the
partition.
One can see an authentic copy of the sheet
music of Bird
of Love Divine on the piano rack.
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Bird of Love Divine
in Waterloo Road
directed by Sidney Gilliat (UK, 1944)
During the London Blitz and while her
husband is mobilized, Tillie becomes infatuated with Ted, a tough guy.
Instead of taking her to a shelter when
an alert sounds, he takes her to his place and seduces her. The radio
suddenly announces: 'Bird of Love Divine by Haydn Wood.' Upon
hearing the charming melody, Tillie runs a gamut of emotions; first
laughing nervously, then gathering herself together, then shedding
tears over her husband. Ted complains about the money he has spent to
please her. She answers back that she can't believe how cheap he can
be—and he slaps her.
This recording by a full orchestra of Bird
of Love Divine was probably recorded especially for this film.
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Bird of Love Divine,
Intermezzo (1932)
in Haydn Wood
Pathé News (UK,
1946)
newsreel
In this short documentary, Haydn Wood
is seen
taking a walk in a garden, looking down on water lilies from a bow
bridge, resting on a bench in front of a rose bed, and staring up at
trees.
'He gets the right mood for
composition, just where you would expect: in a garden.' The commentary is spoken over Bird
of Love Divine, Intermezzo for full orchestra.
The recording by the New Concert
Orchestra conducted by Jay Wilbur is from the Boosey & Hawkes mood
music library (UK, 1946?).
The newsreel can
be watched on the British
Pathé channel on YouTube.
More on this newsreel here on this page.
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A Brown Bird Singing (1922)
in The Duchess of Duke
Street: Poor Little Rich Girl
directed by Cyril Coke (UK, 1977)
television series: season 2, episode 15
London in the mid-1920s: Louisa Trotter
is the owner of a small upper-class
hotel on Duke Street. Her daughter Lottie longs for a career as a
singer, despite her mother's objections.
From
the entrance hall, some of Louisa's staff stops to listen to Lottie
singing
upstairs at her first singing lesson. Her voice
teacher accompanies her at the piano in A
Brown Bird Singing.
One can see the sheet music of A
Brown Bird Singing on the piano
rack.
Both actress and actor (Lalla Ward and Jeremy Nicholas)
actually performed A
Brown Bird Singing in the course of the
sequence shooting.
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A Brown Bird Singing
in Le Shah d'Iran, un
homme à abattre [The Shah of Iran, a Marked Man]
directed by Reynold Ismard (France, 2004)
television documentary
Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, married three times. This documentary
about his domestic and international politics also tells the
circumstances of his
marriages to Fawzia of Egypt, to Soraya Esfandiary,
and eventually to Farah Diba.
A
Brown Bird Singing is the background music for each of these
three stories.
The recording by
Eric Jupp
and the Melodi Strings is
from the Chappell recorded music library (UK, 1959?).
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A Brown Bird Singing
in Secrets of the Lough
- Part 1
directed by Michael Beatie (UK, 2004)
television documentary
A sequence in this documentary evokes
the history of
Whitehead, Northern Ireland, one of the "secrets" of the Belfast Lough.
A
Brown Bird Singing is the background music for a part of the
sequence.
The recording by Eric Jupp and the
Melodi Strings is from the Chappell recorded music library (UK, 1959?).
This documentary can be watched on YouTube.
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A Brown Bird Singing
in Coronation Street
directed by John Anderson (UK, 2005)
television series, episode 6022
Sally and Kevin really enjoyed having a
day out to
Blackpool with their girls. But 'it's just a shame we've got work
tomorrow.'
The radio is playing A Brown Bird
Singing.
The recording of A Brown Bird
Singing by
Eric Jupp
and the Melodi Strings is
from the Chappell recorded music library (UK, 1959?).
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A Brown Bird Singing
in Wellington Bomber
directed by Peter Williams (UK, 2010)
television documentary
One weekend in the early 1940s, at an
aircraft factory in Broughton, Wales, a group of
men and women managed to build a Wellington Bomber in 23 hours and 50
minutes. Hilda was one of them.
She met Percy Dodd at a dance, he got
caught up to go in the Navy, they married in a rush, and she never saw
him again for three and a half years. A
Brown Bird Singing accompanies their story.
The recording of A Brown Bird
Singing by
Eric Jupp
and the Melodi Strings is
from the Chappell recorded music library (UK, 1959?).
This documentary can be watched on YouTube.
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The Harvesters' Dance (1921)
from Harvest Time, Suite
in Ian Hislop's Stiff
Upper Lip, An Emotional History of Britain - Part 3
directed by Tom McCarthy (UK, 2012)
television documentary
How the British have expressed their
feelings throughout the 20th century.
Ian Hislop drives to the British
Cartoon Archive at Canterbury. An excerpt from The
Harvesters' Dance accompanies the drive to
the Archive and finishes while he
comments on the cartoon Adaptability
to Foreign Conditions by Pont (Graham Laidler).
The recording of The Harvesters'
Dance is
from the Boosey & Hawkes recorded music library with William
Hodgson
conducting the Regent Concert Orchestra (UK, 1939?).
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The Horse Guards,
Whitehall: March (1946)
from London Landmarks, Suite
in Agatha Christie's
Poirot: The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
directed by Andrew Grieve (UK, 1990)
television series: season
3, episode 3
A London bank manager is responsible
for taking one million dollars in Liberty Bonds to the
bank's branch in America. Poirot is hired to keep an eye out for any
trouble regarding the bonds, so he
and his friend Hastings are able to ride the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary.
Another case for Poirot. And there are
over two thousand cases which are being loaded safely on board.
The boarding and the departure are told
through a reconstructed newsreel which includes original
footage from British Movietone
News. The Horse Guards, Whitehall
is the background music for the reconstructed newsreel.
The maiden voyage of the Queen Mary took place in 1936 while
The
Horse Guards, Whitehall
is dated 1946.
The recording is
from the Chappell recorded music library (London, orchestra and date
both unknown).
The episode can be watched
on dailymotion.
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The Horse Guards,
Whitehall: March
in The Extraordinary
(Australia, 1993)
television series,
programme 18
The
last part of this weekly television programme (definite date unknown)
looks back on the 1946 Australian Epsom at Randwick, Sydney.
Left fifteen lengths behind at the start because of the starter's
mistake, Shannon, ridden by Darby Munro, made a sensational finish in
second place half a head behind the winner.
Entirely illustrated
with archive footage, this part of the programme is first accompanied by The Horse Guards,
Whitehall.
The recording is
from the Chappell recorded music library (London, orchestra and date
both unknown).
This programme can be
watched on YouTube.
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The Horse Guards,
Whitehall: March
in Fifties British War
Films: Days of Glory
directed by Hans Petch (UK, 2012)
television documentary
In the 1950s, Britain looked back on
its epic WW2 effort in films such as The
Dam Busters, The Cruel Sea,
and The Colditz Story.
However, even at the time these productions were criticised for being
class-bound and
living in the past.
The journalist and
historian Simon Heffer argues that these films have real cinematic
merit and a genuine cultural importance, that they tell us something
significant not only about the 1950s Britain from which they emerged,
but also about what it means to be British today.
After Heffer's
introduction, the documentary starts with a series of short excerpts quickly paced to the accompaniment of The Horse Guards, Whitehall.
Another series of
short excerpts including film
posters terminates the documentary, again to the
accompaniment
of The Horse Guards, Whitehall.
And Heffer's final words are followed by the final bars of the music.
The recording is
from the Chappell recorded music library (London, orchestra and date
both unknown).
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I Look Into Your Garden (1924)
in Charles Hackett,
Leading Tenor of the Chicago Civic Opera Co.
Vitaphone (USA, 1929)
The American tenor Charles Hackett
recorded this ballad by Haydn Wood on Vitaphone, the new sound film
system with which Warner Bros. put an end to the silent movies era.
Such films were shown in cinemas as a supplement to the main programme.
After he had sung I Look Into Your
Garden, Charles Hackett carried on with another ballad, I
Heard You Singing, composed by Eric Coates. The pianist's name is
not known.
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A May-day, Overture (1919)
in Men, Women, and
Clothes - Part 6: Facing the Elements
devised and written by Doris Langley Moore (UK, 1957)
television documentary
This documentary reveals what it took
to be stylish through over 250 years of British fashion
history.
The
Victorians paid homage to summer, with men allowed to appear at a
picnic in their shirt-sleeves. But girls were still overdressed with
layers of underclothing, tight waists, and crinolines.
Although
the term Grecian sandals was applied to certain shoes, they were
nothing like the light cool shoes of the mid-20th century.
Part of the introduction of A May-day, Overture is the
background music for this
sequence.
The recording is
from the Boosey & Hawkes recorded music library with Cédric Dumont
conducting the New Concert Orchestra (UK, 1946?).
This documentary can be watched on YouTube.
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Roses
of Picardy (1916)
in Roses of Picardy
directed by Maurice Elvey (UK, 1927)
in Camera Interviews: Mr F. E.
Weatherly, KC, the Famous Song Writer
Pathé Pictorial (UK, 1928)
in Strong and Willing
Vitaphone (USA, 1930)
in Rudy Starita and His New
'Octarimba'
in Melodies of Long Ago
Pathé Pictorial (UK, 1936)
in Forever and a Day
directed by Edmund Goulding, and others (USA, 1942)
in Variety Jubilee
directed by Maclean Rogers (UK, 1943)
in This Happy Breed
directed by David Lean (UK, 1944)
in I Live in Grosvenor Square
(aka A Yank in London)
directed by Herbert Wilcox (UK, 1945)
in Devil in the Flesh (Le
Diable au corps)
directed by Claude Autant-Lara (France, 1946)
in The Courtneys of Curzon Street
(aka Kathy's Love Affair)
directed by Herbert Wilcox (UK, 1947)
in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie
Brown
directed by Bill Melendez (USA, 1966)
in Oh! What a Lovely War
directed by Richard Attenborough (UK, 1968)
in Those Daring Young Men in Their
Jaunty Jalopies (aka Monte Carlo or Bust!)
directed by Ken Annakin (Italy, France, UK, 1968)
in Solveigin laulu [Solveig's
Song]
directed by Reima Kekäläinen (Finland, 1973)
in Upstairs Downstairs: Peace out of Pain
directed by Christopher Hodson (UK, 1974)
in Aces High
directed by Jack Gold (UK, 1975)
in MASH: Old Soldiers
directed by Charles S. Dubin (USA, 1979)
in One Deadly Summer (L'Été
meurtrier)
directed by Jean Becker (France, 1982)
in The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt
directed by Harrison Engle (USA, 1983)
in A Passage to India
directed by David Lean (UK, 1984)
in He Died with His Eyes Open
(On ne meurt que deux fois)
directed by Jacques Deray (France, 1985)
in A Month in the Country
directed by Pat O'Connor (UK, 1986)
in The Whales of August
directed by Lindsay Anderson (USA, 1986)
in Cause célèbre
directed by John Gorrie (UK, 1987)
in Another Woman
directed by Woody Allen (USA, 1988)
in The House of Eliott
directed by Graeme Harper (UK, 1992)
in Performance: Message
for Posterity
directed by David Jones (UK, 1994)
in Johnny and the Dead
directed by Gerald Fox (UK, 1994)
in Black Holes
(I buchi neri)
directed by Pappi Corsicato (Italy, 1995)
in Léargas: Ná Ling Sinn i eDearmad
...
[Léargas: Lest We Be Forgotten ...]
directed by Pat Butler (Ireland, 2003)
in Ladies in Lavender
directed by Charles Dance (UK, 2003)
in Downton Abbey
directed by James Strong (UK, 2011)
in War Horse
directed by Steven Spielberg (USA, 2011)
in Birdsong
directed by Philip Martin (UK, 2011)
in Les
Fils du vent [Sons of the Wind]
directed by Bruno Le Jean (France)
in Before the Winter Chill (Avant
l'hiver)
directed by Philippe Claudel (France, Luxembourg, 2012)
in An Accidental Soldier
directed by Rachel Ward (Australia, 2013)
in The Danish Girl
directed by Tom Hooper (UK, 2015)
in Cézanne et moi (Cézanne et moi)
directed by Danièle Thompson (France, 2015)
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Slave Dance (1929)
from Egypta, An Egyptian Suite
in Rich and Strange (aka
East of Shanghai)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 1931)
A young English couple, Fred and Emily
Hill, receive a big inheritance and decide to realize all their dreams.
They leave for a cruise to the Far East behaving as rich people. Paris
is the first stop and the Folies Bergère are not to be missed. In the
sheer and low cut gown that she wears for the first time, Emily feels
as naked as the chorus girls on stage actually are.
However, a prudish Hitchcock delivers a
chaste and abridged reconstruction of a Folies Bergère show. One of the
numbers is danced to a few bars of Slave Dance, by exotic
female warriors armed with lances and shields.
This film might well be the only way to
listen to what is a quite short excerpt from Egypta, because
no recording of it is known to have been made.
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Vienna, 1913 (1936)
from Frescoes, Suite
in Oh, Boy!
directed by Albert de Courville (UK, 1937)
June Messanger is a model in a London
department store. Her boss is one of her lovers.
She is the principal in a fashion show
which her other lover also attends.
Vienna, 1913 is a waltz, an
excerpt of which accompanies the show and the rivals' unfriendly
encounter.
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Virginia, A Southern
Rhapsody (1927)
in Mästarnas Match
[Championship Fight] (aka Ingo vs. Floyd)
directed by Per Gunvall (Sweden, 1959)
documentary
Ingemar Johansson (Sweden) versus Floyd
Patterson (USA): the World Heavyweight Boxing
Championship took place in New
York City on 25 June 1959.
Over the last few days before the
match, Per Gunvall filmed each of the two opponents and their
entourage.
An excerpt from Virginia is the background music for the
sequence
about Patterson. Sometimes pastoral—Patterson was
training in a rural area—sometimes 'athletic',
the music excerpt is repeated as a loop a
couple of times.
The recording is from the Chappell
recorded music library with Charles Williams
conducting the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra (London, 1942).
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When the Daisy Opes Her
Eyes, Valse
(1911)
in Metro-land
written by John Betjeman and produced by Edward Mirzoeff (UK, 1972)
television documentary
John Betjeman's meditation on the
London suburbs served by the Metropolitan Line takes him to the Chilton
Court restaurant which was built above Baker Street
station circa 1913. Customers, before they took the train for home,
could listen to a band playing for the thé dansant. Betjeman
seems to hear the band playing When
the Daisy Opes Her Eyes.
The music continues with 1910 footage
of Baker Street station followed by a shot of the disused Malborough
Road station.
When
the Daisy Opes Her Eyes is played by Albert Sandler and his
orchestra (London, 1 February 1940).
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Who Cares? (1929)
from Dear Love
in These Foolish Things
directed by Julia Taylor-Stanley (UK, 2005)
London in 1938: Diana is a young
actress who seeks to follow in her
famous mother's footsteps. She meets Robin, a
struggling playwright. Who
Cares? accompanies an uninterrupted series of short scenes:
Douglas, an actor of some
success, tries a new tailor-made suit; he is joined by a friend who is
an entertainment
columnist.
Robin introduces Diana to his landlady,
a retired showgirl who is delighted to have Diana as a new tenant.
Diana smiles to the landlady and to
Robin.
Robin at his typewriter.
Diana and Dolly have fun in a park—they
had met at a drama school.
Robin on his bed counts what is left of
his bank
notes.
Diana looks for a bread and butter job
in the small ads.
Diana and Dolly line up in a theatre
agent's waiting room.
Who
Cares? is played by Jack Hylton and his orchestra, with Sam
Browne singing the chorus (London, 8 November 1929).
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