The Singing Ringing Tree (Complete) - Henry Darker music and video post-processing
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2021
- I have seamlessly segued several individual pieces of my music already on my channel, and used it for a soundtrack for the 1957 East German film 'The Singing Ringing Tree'. Like many others I was enthralled by The Singing Ringing Tree when it was shown on BBC Television in 1964.
A big thanks to Arfie, 'franknzappa', for nudging me to string some of my pieces into one. Having done this with no real thought about using the TSRT video to accompany it, the audio was within 5 seconds of the TSRT video ...so maybe a match made in Nutwood. As this new piece wasn't intended for the full TSRT film, the music doesn't represent the scenes, except accidentally. I wanted the audio to end with the Blackbird singing,whatever image or video I used, but it fits the end of the film very nicely.
My post-processing of the video took 32 hours for the 1hr 11min original : Pushed the 'black clip' to get actual black, and a bit more contrast, and the Red Box 'Dreamlook' filter tweaked for more colour saturation and softening and blooming of the highlights, I think this really worked, giving much more ethereal look.
From Wikipedia:
After its release in East Germany, it sold 5,901,141 tickets in the country of about 17 million. The film was then purchased by the BBC and cut into three parts to create a mini-series which was first broadcast on black and white television from 19 November 1964 to 3 December 1964 as part of Tales from Europe, with an English-language voice-over track (not dubbed, however; the original soundtrack was simply faded up and down). It was repeated many times through to 1980.
Storyline
A brave prince wants to win the heart of a stubborn princess by finding the singing, ringing tree for her. He finally locates it in the magical realm of an evil dwarf who offers him a deal: he can keep the tree if it starts singing before sundown - which it will only do if the princess truly loves him. Otherwise, he will be turned into a bear.
So turn on that red light in your teenage bedroom, and curl up with your lava lamp.
The Singing Ringing Tree changed everything for a generation of child TV watchers....
Thanks for posting!
Yep, I think TSRT had an impact on a generation of kids, young 'n old :-) I'd like to re-render it with some new music of mine more akin to the scenes, I just joined up existing pieces I'd made - I'm a bit better at it now.
Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed it.
This looks to of been a Hidden Gem... an unusually rare Masterpiece!!!
OMG 50 years later and I still love the fish...! 🙂
Loved that fish too
This needs to be in theaters with this soundtrack.
I've been discussing the merits of this film with the David Bowie painting in my living room. I think he loves it too. 🎼🎵🎶🎵🎥🎹🙌🙌👁🔥👁💚😎
Very trippy. Love it!
Thanks - I still think I should have added the dialogue though.
Henry Darker - I am an Australian who is totally unfamiliar with this movie/show here in my country. It looks amazing and yes, maybe dialogue would help but your sound track is simply fantastic.
Thanks Kerry. I've just looked on YT for the BBC TV version with an English language overdub, but I can't seem to find it - there's the original German language version available tho' :-) Thanks for the comment on the music. More info on the TV series on Wikipedia, It was made in East Germany in 1957 if I remember correctly.
I just started. Breathless with Anticipation!!🙌🙌💚😎
Stunning keyboard musical landscapes, excellent 👌 ❤ singing ringing tree
Thanks Vic. I keep saying I'll put a new soundtrack to it, I'm better at it now 🙂
It looks so much less scary in colour - I watched it as a kid in black & white & it used to scare the crap out of me :)
:-) It definitely had an impact on kid's minds at the time. I probably saw it in colour. I like black & white, maybe I'll try a B/W version and crank up the contrast - get a film noir look, 'n scary music 🙂.
Thanks for the comment.
@@henrydarker4314 It was definitely a film noir for a 7-yr old & left a lasting impression and memory. THat's not to say I din't like it. For me It's up there with Peter & the Woolf and other tales Grimm 😊)
@@psr0459 I just checked when it was first aired by the BBC, 1964, I was 16. It never scared me, I was taken by the sets and characters - everyone remembers the fish 🙂
I do remember listening to BBC radio's 'Children's Hour' in the '50s. I was fascinated broadcaster David Davis' voice, he read a lot of fairy tales, mostly Grimm I suppose. Now here's one thing I remember from one of them to this day - in one story someone was boiled in oil. Not really kid's stuff then or now really 🙂
@@henrydarker4314 I saw it in the mid 1970's on children's Saturday morning tv - I can't remember,ber much more than that
Yes indeed. Thanks to Henry, I now know i was five when I first saw this and scenes from it were etched into my memory, in particular the little dwarf on top of the snow covered cliff. Years later i tried to remember what it was and I'd get it mixed up with the Snow Queen. I found out what it was called in the letters section of the Radio Times. I now have a copy of it. I purchased a box set with two movies. Tales From Europe. The other movie was the Tinderbox. Thank you Henry for posting this and your music is beautiful.
Thanks for commenting Michael. Tales From Europe, some interesting stuff back then, particularly liked the silhouette puppetry, probably Czechoslovakian. Singing Ringing was East German. The Singing Ringing Tree seemed to have an impact on UK audience. !964 on BBC, I must have been 15 or 16 :-)
Hoped you liked the backing music I did ..from a non musician.
A Master class of the Avant-Garde. All Of The Zippo's Should take a bow. Just Brilliant!!!
Thanks yet again Mr Boardwalk. I'm well pleased with the result. The long render time apart, that must be the quickest I've ever put something together. I've hopes of awards at the next Nutwood Mushroom Dance Film Festival.
So glad you enjoyed it. Avant-Garde for ever!
Just got in from the market. Thank goodness I got crackers. Lord knows there is plenty of Cheese. 😂😂 I love this💚
Oh Sir Henry. Hats off to your Tutu and Unicycle.
Oh my God this is perfect. Just what the Weed Dr. ordered.
I couldn't imagine this with its normal speaking track. So great with the music. Almost like a silent film.
I have the version with BBC narration too. But yeah, so much better like this, it would just be a distraction.
This could be an underground hit on the 'stoner/tripper' scene :-)
I finally watched the original with subtitles. Really insane movie the way it was made. Has lasting scars on young viewers I see from comments. I am so glad to have found you Henry. Now on to where H. Darker came from!
There is the BBC TV version on YT with the English narration, but it still has the German actor's dialogue faintly in the background. I prefer my version :-)
Sorry, can't watch it in this format - it was shown in the UK as part of a series called Tales From Europe back in the 1960s. I watched it in black and white with the original German dialogue and an English commentary. Unfortunately I find the music intrusive and meaningless in the context of the story.
Possibly the greatest film ever. Especially when your high.
Love the bongos at minute 38. Oh Happy Day.
I was getting a bit furious by 38min in
Brillant!!! I would love to premiere this on my channel, with your permission. I understand if not, but this would make a fantastic entry into the Theatre of The Absurd! Thanks!~Sebastian
That would be great Sebastian, yep, go ahead. I think I made a good job on the visual sprucing up.
This destroyed my mind as a child when I was unfortunate enough to find myself sitting in front of it when it was playing on a friends TV back in the 60's.
The constant flashbacks of this bizarre little circus still play out in my head today...
:-) It seems to have made an impression on every kid , and probably a number of adults too, who watched it. it was a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, probably supposed to me moralising - I think we thought it was just plain weird.
Thanks for the comment.
WTF sort of darkness is this? Just what the fever dream ordered, possibly. Oh, Christ it’s German and I was just into the first hour of the 5 hour Until the End of the World by Wenders. Whatever shall I do? Got to feed the fever.
Not seen much Wenders. Don't worry, the commies are all gone. Five hours of Wenders would give anyone a fever.
@@henrydarker4314 Wenders can be a bit hit or miss, but some like the American Friend and Paris, TX I enjoy. And I had some fever going when I started into it so…I didn’t make it too far into the dream.
@@Claytone-Records I think Parix Tx is the only one I've seen. Ever see any Rainer Werner Fassbinder?
The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979
Veronika Voss 1982
Hope you're feeling better.
Oh, I'm rendering out the first 12min or so of 'Rookie Hangman', with my filters applied for a dreamy sepia look. This is for my next music piece, probably Civ' III style.
That's a dark video of 'Rookie' I downloaded off YT, I've balanced it up too, lots more detail and proper black and white balance. Good movie, down loaded 'Trains' as well, tho' yet to sit back and watch it.
@@henrydarker4314 Oh man! I can’t wait to see what you have done with the Son of the wives return of…Case for a Rookie Concubine… should be some phun. I was quite sick all last week and repeating to micelf that I don’t live in Kansas anymore Tutu so can’t have C19, I got the mad jabs, right? Yet I checked off most of the symptoms on the list. I just started feeling better late Friday night but by Saturday I am inundated by something else: the Gorgonzola dust off from the Sahara. Now I Really am considering going to the doctors. If I do it will be the 4th time in a year for respiratory shite and they have yet to test me for c19. I will wait until I can barely breathe. Fassbinder, I tried long ago to get into and it took awhile, but I came around. I have been enjoying him more and more for the last 15 years now. World on a Wire, Kamikaze 89, Tenderness of Wolves, Fox and his Friends and more have that enduring quality of good reads.
@@Claytone-RecordsIt's still rendering out the 12min or so. It has the same 'dreamlook' filter as The Singing tree, so has that gauzy bloomed out look. Got a few ideas. The dropped egg goes 'up and down' a few times already in this render , 3rd rate surrealism :-)
Yep, 5 weeks ago I literally crawled under some trees before unless I passed out (or died like a cat :-). My temperature felt like it was ijn 4 figures, guts about to explode ..and P*** phones me to ask what time our friend Neal's funeral was the next day :-), which I had to miss, and Big Jim's wake the next weekend. Hence my sudden rush of music and vids maybe? I'n the midst' and all that.
Take it easy man, we still got to go to Mexico!
Way to go, to ruin a classic.
Totally agree ruined it .
No talking or subtitles ????
Well, I just wanted to make the visuals look better, but in retrospect subtitles would have been a good idea.