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Here is something really odd. I am trying to find any info on the web for a Robert Israel score to THE BLACKBIRD. There isn't any on IMDB, which I find rather interesting.

However, there is an obscure scoring credit for Israel to a version of SKYSCRAPERS (1928) with William Boyd! Now I am trying to get more details on this. I wonder when this was done, and if the version is around anyplace? I wouldn't think it would be for Photo-play Productions, Israel has never done any scores for them that I remember? Probably something for David Shepard? Can anyone here tell me more about this matter?

Nothing to do with me. Why don't you just ask Robert?

David Shepard

Mr. Shepard,

Thanks for the info. I wonder if the listing is accurate at all? I have never seen THE SKYSCRAPERS.

Incidentally, how is the restoration project of Vidor's BARDELEYS THE MAGNIFICENT progressing at this point? I haven't heard anything additional since you were our guest here back in March? Are there any plans for the scoring of this picture yet? I assume Warner's still own's the movie? Also, is there anything new that you are currently working on?

After several talks with Charles Tabesh, I managed to get Chaney's THE BLACK BIRD with Robert Israel's score on the North American TCM schedule, a debut in the States, which I am very pleased about. Does Israel have a web-site by chance? I have not been able to find one?