Film score
Christchurch composer Dorothy Buchanan, has just completed her latest project, the writing of a film score for the 1927 New Zealand silent film, “The Romance of Hine-Moa.” Acclaimed as a New Zealand classic, the film was believed lost till the first reel was found in England and was returned to New Zealand in 1931.
Composing of the film score meant trying to catch the mood of the time, Miss Buchanan said.
“It’s a question of being another actor in the film, so you are part of the time.” Dorothy Buchanan wrote
the film score of another New Zealand silent film, “The Adventures of Algy.” Most of the feature films in the national archives had scores but the music had long been lost, she said. The scores were often just period music attached to; a cue sheet for the orchestra to play. However the score for “The Romance of HineMoa” was not written for the film. She wrote it as a light opera called “Hinemoa and Tutanekai.” When she saw the film she discovered her opera created the same mood and fitted the film exactly.
Film score
Press, 19 September 1984, Page 18
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