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What is it about?

It is an analysis of a single sheet of Musical Suggestions. It was circulated with the film by New Era, as distributors of John Grierson's Drifters (1929). The year in question was distinctive in British cinema history standing as it did at the crux of changeover from accompaniment live by musicians to synchronised recorded sound.

Why is it important?

Several alternative ways of accompanying Drifters were provided for by Arthur Dulay who compiled the spreadsheet. Thus the document provides a survey of means of providing music to go with the film that were (as Grierson himself lamented) obsolescent.

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