FAQ

Film music cues are usually titled with a number (the reel of a film) followed by the letter M (meaning “Music”) and then followed by another number (music cue of that reel). So a cue entitled 1M1 means “Reel 1, Music, Cue 1.” Films are normally divided into seven reels, and 1M1 would be the very first cue of the very first reel of a film.

Director and producer Annie Bosler was fortunate to study at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles at a time when Hollywood Horn legends Vince DeRosa, James Decker, James Thatcher, and Richard Todd were teaching there. There were many photos, capturing the early era of film music, on the walls of the French horn studio that inspired Annie to learn the history of Hollywood. What she learned was that many of the original Hollywood studio hornists were still alive, so she started on a personal passion project to find these people, interview them, and capture this undocumented history. Starting the journey in the fall of 2003, the project morphed into a documentary film where Annie collected over 165 hours of interviews, hundreds of hours of audio, and over two thousand photographs. 1M1 was first screened in Zipper Hall at The Colburn School in the summer of 2011 with over 350 Los Angeles studio musicians present. The film has been dedicated to the musicians of Hollywood’s Golden Era.

1M1 is currently only available for in-person screenings. The 1M1 team is working to raise money to clear rights to some of the music and film clips in the documentary. Once the clearance is completed, the film will be available for on demand viewing.

75 minutes

At this time, the film is not available for streaming.

All donations to 1M1: Hollywood Horns of the Golden Year are tax deductible. This project has teamed with the fiscal receiver Social Good who houses the donations.