The Voices And Music Of World War I

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The Voices and Music of World War One

Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections
Marr Sound Archives

Composite Image #1
(From bottom to top layer): (A) music score, Under The American Flag - background; (B) photo of four WWI soldiers, two seated, two standing behind - bottom right corner; (C) envelope, with 1918 black postmark and green foreign stamp - center, at angle; (D) photo of WWI soldier on motorcycle with sidecar posing with two soldiers standing - upper left corner, at angle.

Segment Description #1
Text, in script font, occupies mailing address (main title) and return address (department credits) spaces in image #1C. In addition, there are PLAY and SKIP buttons embedded into the composite image.

TURKEY INTO WAR; TO AID THE GERMANS

Composite Image #2
(From bottom to top layer): (A) light brown/peach paperstock - background; (B) purple postmark - bottom left corner; (C) newspaper clipping, dated 2 September 1914, containing WWI headlines - center.

Segment Description #2
Image #2C is featured. Text is pulled from top right headline in image #2C and is enlarged to fill screen as rest of image #2C fades out.

SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
huge loss of life

Composite Image #3
(From bottom to top layer): (A) light brown/peach paperstock - background; (B) purple postmark - bottom left corner; (C) newspaper clipping of image with caption depicting the sinking of the Lusitania - center.

Segment Description #3
Image #3C is featured. Text is pulled from caption in image #3C and is enlarged to fill screen as rest of image #3C fades out.

THE AMERICAN NATION went to war in April, 1917. Five months later Kansas City became the first community to feel the real meaning of that act when Lt. Will Fitzsimons was killed - America's first war zone fatality.

Composite Image #4
(From bottom to top layer): (A) light brown/peach paperstock - background; (B) purple postmark - bottom left corner; (C) newspaper clipping of image with article entitled, "Kansas Citian First Casualty as U.S. Sent Raw Recruits to Battle" - center.

Segment Description #4
Image #4C is featured. Text is pulled from article text in image #4C and is enlarged to fill screen as rest of image #4C fades out.

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Composite Image #5.1
(From bottom to top layer): (A) light brown/peach paperstock - background; (B) purple postmark - bottom left corner; (C) sheet music cover, For The Freedom Of The World, depicting a woman in a white dress blowing a horn, and who is superimposed over an oval inset of a silhouetted group of soldiers with the sun rising or setting behind them; the inset is surrounded by laurel leaves on the sides and bottom - center.

Composite Image #5.2
(From bottom to top layer): (A) light brown/peach paperstock - background; (B) purple postmark - bottom left corner; (C) music score, For The Freedom Of The World - center; (D) graphic from sheet music cover, For The Freedom Of The World, depicting a woman blowing a horn - center and superimposed over image #5.2C

Segement Description #5
Image #5.1C is featured first. Image #5.2D is pulled from image #5.1C, and remains at center as rest of image #5.1C fades out and image #5.2C fades in under image #5.2D. No segment text.

DURING THE FIRST GREAT WAR

Composite Image #6
(From bottom to top layer): (A) music score, For The Freedom Of The World - background; (B) graphic of marching soldiers, taken from sheet music cover, American Crusaders March - across bottom; (C) browned envelope, with white seal on left end stating "OPENED BY CENSOR" - center, at angle; (D) photo of seven WWI soldiers in full uniform - center and superimposed over image #6C.

Segment Description #6
Text, in block lettering, appears across top. Image #6B moves in continuous loop, left to right across bottom, to simulate marching.

THE WORDS WE LISTENED TO

Composite Image #7
(From bottom to top layer): (A) music score, For The Freedom Of The World - background; (B) graphic of marching soldiers, taken from sheet music cover, American Crusaders March - across bottom; (C) photo of tabletop phonograph player with wooden acoustic horn - bottom, center. (D) square inset photo of General Pershing - middle, right; (E) rectangular inset photo of President Woodrow Wilson - middle, left; (F) oval inset photo of singer Elizabeth Brice - bottom, center, superimposed over image #7C.

Segment Description #7
Text, in block lettering, appears across top. Image #7B moves in continuous loop, left to right across bottom, to simulate marching. One by one, images #7D-F appear respectively.

AND THE SONGS THAT RALLIED US

Composite Image #8
(From bottom to top layer): (A) music score, For The Freedom Of The World - background; (B) graphic of marching soldiers, taken from sheet music cover, American Crusaders March - across bottom; (C) sheet music cover, You'll Have To Put Him To Sleep With The Marseillaise And Wake Him Up With A Oo-La-La, depicting an American soldier kissing a French woman - middle, far left; (D) sheet music cover, Over There, depicting Norman Rockwell painting of four soldiers singing at camp at night, one playing a banjo - middle, left center; (E) sheet music cover, Your Lips Are No Man's Land But Mine, depicting photograph of Arthur Guy Empey, "Star of the Vitagraph feature film Over The Top," in soldier's uniform carrying a rifle with bayonet and standing over barbed wire - middle, right center; (F) sheet music cover, The Yanks Are At It Again, depicting Uncle Sam, with rifle and bayonet, leading a charge of soldiers, with a battleship in the sea behind and planes in the sky above - middle, far right.

Segment Description #8
Text, in block lettering, appears across top. Image #8B moves in continuous loop, left to right across bottom, to simulate marching. Image #8C appears, remaining on screen for two seconds. Image #8D appears immediately after image #8C disappears, remaining on screen for two seconds before disappearing. Image #8E and #8F follow the same pattern.

WERE

Composite Image #9
(From bottom to top layer): (A) music score, For The Freedom Of The World - background; (B) graphic of marching soldiers, taken from sheet music cover, American Crusaders March - across bottom.

Segment Description #9
Text, in block lettering, appears across top. Image #8B moves in continuous loop, left to right across bottom, to simulate marching.

THE VOICES AND MUSIC OF WWI

Composite Image #10
(From bottom to top layer): (A) light brown/peach paperstock - background; (B) purple postmark - bottom left corner; (C) music score, Under The American Flag - center, at angle; (D) sheet music cover, American Crusaders March, depicting soldiers marching with an angel flying overhead blowing a horn and wearing a banner entitled "America." - left.

Segment Description #10
Graphic of marching soldiers in previous segments becomes part of image #10D, the sheet music cover from which the graphic is taken, shrinking from the foreground to left side of screen. Text, in block lettering, appears at right.

THE VOICES AND MUSIC OF WWI

Composite Image #11
(From bottom to top layer): (A) light brown/peach paperstock - background; (B) purple-stamped postmark - bottom left corner; (C) music score, Under The American Flag - center, at angle; (D) 1918 postmark - bottom right corner; (E) cascade of seven 78-rpm record labels - top to bottom of screen, left side. Sample shown in composite image includes first three record labels; see below for descriptions of all seven record labels.

Record #1: If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany, performed by Eddie Nelson, Emerson Records 940.

Record #2: It's A Long, Long Way To Tipperary, performed by John McCormack, Victor 64476.

Record #3: From The Battlefields Of France, speech by General John J. Pershing, Nation's Forum Records.

Record #4: For The Freedom Of The World, performed by Prince's Band, Columbia 2347.

Record #5: We Don't Want The Bacon (What We Want Is A Piece Of The Rhine), Vocal Quartette, Little Wonder 959.

Record #6: Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye, performed by Henry Burr, Columbia 2493.

Record #7: Indianola, performed by Lyric Dance Band, Lyric 4145.

Segment Description #11
Image #11E scrolls top to bottom on left side of screen; loops twice before fading out. Text, as in previous segment, remains at right; an ENTER button, also in block lettering, appears under main text.

THE VOICES AND MUSIC OF WWI

Composite Image #12
(From bottom to top layer): (A) light brown/peach paperstock - background; (B) purple postmark - bottom left corner; (C) music score, Under The American Flag - center, at angle; (D) 1918 black postmark - bottom right corner; (E) WWI button: "Authorized Solicitor, United War Work Campaign, For The Boys Over There"; (F) photo of WWI soldier and two women toasting wine glasses and standing in front of a small table with three wine bottles on it - upper left corner, at angle.

Segment Description #12
Images #12D-F appear; a REPLAY button, in small gray block lettering, appears below the ENTER button.

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