Summer Stock
Charles Walters, 1950
The text and the video excerpt below document Philippe Langlois’s book, Les cloches d’Atlantis, Musique électroacoustique et cinéma, Archéologie et histoire d’un art sonore, éditions mf, Paris, 2012.
In Summerstock (1950) by Charles Walters, released in France under two titles : La Jolie Fermière or La vallée heureuse, it is the creaking of a wooden slat and the sound of a sheet of newspaper on the floor that become a genuine rhythmic accompaniment beneath Gene Kelly’s steps.