P3D Re: Ken's Video Review

[Derek Gee <73157.2172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>The video is presented as an eavesdropping on the thoughts of 
>Philip Brigandi, one of Keystone's itinerant photographers (retired 
>1935) as he starts into his probably fictitious final assignment, 
>years later, of going through the Keystone collection and weeding its
>contents by half.

My understanding is that it was not a fictitious assignment, although I 
could be mistaken.  I think Brigandi was the one who had to cut down
the Keystone negatives to save on storage costs.  That's why the 
Keystone/Mast collection at the California Museum of Photography does
not contain all the stereographs issued by Keystone, Underwood and 
Underwood, e.g.

>The whole thing is underscored by delightful Joplin music, some of 
>it played without the usual syncopated rag-time beat we hear in it 
>today (I wonder what the REAL performance practice was, back then?).

Just to satisfy your curiousity, nearly all of Joplin's music is
ragtime.  Unless the video used some of Joplin's waltzes or marches,
the songs you are used to hearing performed as rags were not being
played as Joplin intended them to be played.   Perhaps you are 
referring to the tendancy to play ragtime at a lightening fast pace.
Joplin himself wrote printed instructions on some of his pieces like
"Leola" which stated, "Notice! Don't play this piece fast. It is never
right to play 'rag-time' fast. Author."  Hope this helps...

                                 Derek Gee
                                 3-D and Ragtime fan


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