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MiyagiDough t1_j2mbxvo wrote

Reply to comment by BrokenEye3 in In 1930s, Music Defense League launched a campaign against recorded sound in movie and live theaters, claiming that numerous musicians would lose their jobs if "canned music" was preferred over live recordings. by Profanion

So it was a bit of a cheat statement in that it wasn't a traditional film. Probably more like a laser show but it was all CGI. The film came with a soundtrack and we were showing it on a domed cinema for a month, the last few weekends we got a live band to come in and play over it.

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bayesian13 t1_j2m7u76 wrote

Reply to comment by Vegan_Harvest in In 1930s, Music Defense League launched a campaign against recorded sound in movie and live theaters, claiming that numerous musicians would lose their jobs if "canned music" was preferred over live recordings. by Profanion

so this is a thing now! https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2122/art-of-the-score https://www.njsymphony.org/events/category/pops-movies

lots of orchestras are doing movie events. the audience watches the movie but instead of the regular movie soundtrack, the orchestra plays the soundtrack live! it's pretty neat.

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marketrent OP t1_j2m6byf wrote

Reply to comment by RoutaOps in Ancient Chinese text reveals earliest known record of auroral display, described as a ‘five-colored light’ event in either 977 or 957 BCE by marketrent

>https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/aurora_history.html

Is there a peer-reviewed paper documenting the quote by Fu Pao? The THEMIS webpage was last updated in 2006, and I couldn’t find a primary source that the unnamed author may have cited.

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RoutaOps t1_j2m3phb wrote

Reply to Ancient Chinese text reveals earliest known record of auroral display, described as a ‘five-colored light’ event in either 977 or 957 BCE by marketrent

Cro-Magnon cave paintings are believed to be the first known display of auroras and are about 30,000 years old.

also:

>The oldest known auroral citing was written in 2600 B.C. in China: >"Fu-Pao, the mother of the Yellow Empire Shuan-Yuan, saw strong >lightning moving around the star Su, which belongs to the >constellation of Bei-Dou, and the light illuminated the whole area." >Thousands of years later, in 1570 A.D., a drawing of the aurora >depicted candles burning above the clouds.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/aurora_history.html

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Profanion OP t1_j2m18o1 wrote

Reply to comment by BrokenEye3 in In 1930s, Music Defense League launched a campaign against recorded sound in movie and live theaters, claiming that numerous musicians would lose their jobs if "canned music" was preferred over live recordings. by Profanion

They argued that you need to record every song only once while live bands have to play it every time.

Such as how in theaters you need to constantly perform the act, as opposed in movies where, once the movie production is finished, you don't need to perform anymore for that movie.

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