Philippine Cinema and Performing Arts (Folk Dances and Music)

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FIRST FULL-LENGTH FILIPINO FILM: HONORATA "ATANG" DE LA RAMA IN "DALAGANG BUKID" (1919, MALAYAN PRODUCTIONS)

sources:

photos:
video48.blogspot.com
pelikulaatbp.blogspot.com

plot:
New Structure II
Stockholm University, Department of Cinema Studies
Nadi Tofighian

Production: Malayan Productions
Release Date/Screenings: September 12-, 1919 in Teatro de la Comedia; September 25-, 1919 in The Majestic.
Press: Manila Nueva, September 13, 1919; The Citizen, September 18, 1919; The Citizen, October 9, 1919; Graphic, October 13, 1928; Graphic, October 20, 1928
Songs: Nabasag ang Banga, Awit ng Pabo at Loro and several others
Director: Jose Nepumuceno
Writers: Leon Ignacio & Hermogenes Ilagan
Cast: Atang Dela Rama & Marcelino Ilagan

PLOT: Dalagang Bukid is a love story about a young flower vendor, Angelita (Atang de la Rama), who is betrothed by her parents to a rich, old man, Don Silvestre, but she loves Cipriano, a law student. The play consists of three acts and is filled with music (18 songs), which made it suitable for a screen adaptation with an accompanying orchestra. The film showed many of the woes plaguing the Filipino society, as well as issues relevant for the society of the time: gambling, Americanisation, infidelity, poverty, the power of money versus the power of love, parents view on marriage, and corrupt government officials.

The home of Angelita, the pretty heroine, is a certain picture of many Philippine families, although it somewhat exaggerates the negative tones. Angelita, the flower girl of the Cabaret, the “Dalagang Bukid”, loves Cipriano with the sincere and spontaneous passion of her twenties.

Cipriano is a Law student who loves her back equally. The parents of Angelita, without much financial resources, limited in their moral honesty because of the gambling demon, don’t see with good eyes the love of the happy couple, where tenderness and affection are abundant but money the great dominating ingredient, is missing. This is why Mrs Biang is inclined into accepting the propositions from Don Silvestre, an old loan shark, rich in aches and gold, who still has a young heart and allows himself to visit the cabarets and buy flowers from the pretty florists [ladies] such as Angelita; this doesn’t prevent him from lending money with a high interest, low mortgage, and still give away some money to Angelita’s parents, who see in Don Silvestre the source who will let them continue without working, the father spending time in his favourite sport at the “chicken fighting games” and her, the mother gambling.
Meanwhile, Angelita and her brothers, all younger and working as shoe shiners at the threshold of the Church of the Holy Cross, maintain the expenses of the house with their honest and hard work. Don Silvestre, who is a pro in these issues, takes over the will of Angelita’s parents and since he was able to have Angelita win a beauty contest in “La Vanguardia” thanks to the power of gold, he requests the parents to have the florist as his wife. They accept and a date is fixed for the wedding, which is the next day of the formal crowning of Angelita as the Beauty Queen. But Cipriano, who just finished his studies brilliantly after many long nights of studying, goes to the home of his beloved in the moment that she is going to get in Don Silvestre’s car to be taken to the Crowning ceremony. Already secretly in agreement from the day before, the love birds go in the same car of the old loan shark towards a church where they are wed in holy matrimony by a generous minister of God: having finished the ceremony they go to the Crowning event where the whole world learns about their union. Don Silvestre faints and this is how the movie finishes.

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News Article Source:
JAMES DR OF
http://pelikulaatbp.blogspot.com/201...ang-bukid.html

Article by Joe Quirino
Published in Philippine Graphic, July 29, 1991

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FLYERS TAKEN FROM MR. SIMON SANTOS' BLOG
video48.blogspot.com

"Luha" (1932)
Jose Nepomuceno Production/Malayan Production
Release Date: September 2-6, 1932/ Tivoli Theater
Director Dr. Fausto Galauran
Cast Rosa Rivera, Jaime Castelvi, Francisco Zamora, Violeta Del Prado

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No puedo olvidarte / Hindi kita malimot


Fonsucu

Original version in Spanish. Música: Josefino Cenizal.
Letra: Manuel Bernabé.
Imágenes: Fotos de René Gaviola.
Intérprete: Guillermo Gómez-Rivera.

LETRA

En todos mis ensueños
tu imagen siempre surge
porque en mi subconsciente
clavada estas tú

Por eso que te ruego
y que Dios ya me perdone
para que no me olvides
porque te adoro yo

No puedo olvidarte,
siempre pienso en ti,
no puedo olvidarte,
por siempre te amaré.

Sin temor yo te juro
que tu belleza en flor
vive hoy en mi ilusión
y en mi creer

No puedo olvidarte,
no dejo de pensar
en tu amor y en tu arte
que es todo mi querer

Y si pensaras
en quererme
acuérdate mi vida
que siempre pienso en tí

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now here's my excuse again to post a continuation of Rizal...

credits to the hispanofilipino site for hosting the files on Rizal's poems and for the spanish and english versions ...

"Canto del Viajero" por Delfina San Agustín de González



antonmg2 on Jul 20, 2008
"Canto del Viajero" por José Rizál. Declamada por la Sra Doña Delfina San Agustín de González (1905-1992) - Recitadora Filipina en Castellano. La estrella mas grande del teatro Español en Las Filipinas. Encantadora, y artista de la palabra. Mi estimada abuela.


DR. JOSE RIZAL

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Trial

CANTO DEL VIAJERO

Hoja seca que cuela indecisa
y arrebata violente turbión,
asi vive en la tierra el viajero,
sin norte, sin alma, sin patria ni amor.

Busca ansioso doquiera la dicha
y la dicha se aleja fugaz:
¡vana sombra que burla su anhelo! ...
¡Por ella el viajero se lanza a la mar!

Impelido por mano invisible
vagara confín en confín;
los recuedos le harán compañia
de seres queridos, de un día felíz.

Una tumba quizá en el desierto
hallará, dulce asilo de paz,
de su patria y del mundo olvidado ...
¡Descanse tranquilo, tras tanto penar !

Y le envidian al triste viajero
cuando cruza la tierra veloz ...
¡Ay! no saben que dentro del alma
existe un vacio de falta el amor!

Volverá el peregrino á su patria
y a sus lares tal vez volverá,
y hallará por doquier nieve y ruina
amores perdidos, sepulcros, no más.

Vé, Viajero, prosigue tu senda,
extranjero en tu propio país;
deja a otros que canten amores,
los otros que gocen; tu vuelve a partir.

Vé, viajero, no vuelvas el rostro,
que no hay llanto que siga al adiós;
vé, viajero, y ahoga tu penas;
que el mundo se burla de ajeno dolor. (04)


THE SONG OF THE TRAVELLER

A withered leaf which flies uncertainly
And hurled about my furious hurricanes,
So goes the traveler about the world,
No guide, no hope, no fatherland, no love.

Anxiously he seeks a better fortune
And fickle fortune always takes to flight;
A shadow vain that mocks at his desire!
For her the wanderer has plowed the seas,

Driven on by hands invisible,
Wandering from land to weary land,
Only memories to keep him company,
Or loved ones and of bygone happier days.

A tomb perhaps upon the desert
Calls him -- refuge sweet of peace, --
Where, by his country and the world forgotten,
Tranquil he may sleep who knew such pain.

And if they envy this sad traveler
When he speeds so swiftly round the world,
Ah, little do they know that in his soul
Exists an aching void for want of love.

Should the wanderer turn back to his country,
And to his home, it may be, make his way,
He would find but snow and ruins everywhere,
All Love destroyed, and sepulchers, -- no more.

On, then, traveler, pursue your journey,
Stranger to the land where you were born.
Letting others sing their songs of love
And feel their joys, while you fare on again.

And traveler, as you go, do not turn back,
For none will shed a tear to say farewell,
Go, pilgrim, try to drown your sorrow,
Because the world but scoffs when strangers grieve.

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source: video48.blogspot.com

"La Monjita" (1931)
Malayan Pictures Corporation
Release Date: April 17-21, 1931/ Cine Tivoli
Cast Rosa Rivera, Carlos Padilla
(Images above and below: URIAN Anthology Book 1990- 1999)

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Napakasarap sariwain ng mga panahong ang awiting likha ng mga Pilipino ay tungkol sa kanilang payak na pamumuhay sa nayon at sa kabukiran, taliwas sa mga awitin ngayon na karamihan ay ginagaya lamang sa mga banyaga o di kaya naman ay walang kahulugan o may halong kabastusan.

SA LIBIS NG NAYON


SA LIBIS NG NAYON

by Santiago S. Suarez

Kahit na gabing madilim sa libis ng nayon
Taginting nitong kudyapi ay isang himatong
Maligaya ang panahon sa lahat ng naroroon
Bawa't puso'y tumutugon sa nilalayon

Puno ng kawayan ay naglangitngitan
Lalo na kung hipan ng hanging amihan
Ang katahimikan nitong kaparangan
Pinukaw na tunay nitong kasayahan.

Kung ang hanap mo ay ligaya sa buhay
Sa libis ng nayon doon manirahan
Taga-bukid man may gintong kalooban
Kayamanan at dangal ng kabukiran

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a dozen
these are also folk music








kids playing angklung










anyone knows which specific manobo language is this

[kiretoce]

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

[Hawayano]

thanks for sharing this, Kiretoce--I reposted it on my FB profile

[kiretoce]

No prob. Enjoy!

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@ esagerato: thanks for these informative postings on prewar Philippine films--I need to find the source, but I once read that even Manila's movie houses were superior to many in Asia such that even the Japanese came to study Philippines' design in air-chilled cinema houses of the 1930s.

Aside from that, I recall a showing of a prewar Carmen Rosales - Tita Duran film Panambitan here in Honolulu back in 1972. I'm wondering where that film ended up if it is not on the list of the five remaining extant films of pre-December 1941. Would you know?

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prewar studio shot

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Originally Posted by Hawayano

@ esagerato: thanks for these informative postings on prewar Philippine films--I need to find the source, but I once read that even Manila's movie houses were superior to many in Asia such that even the Japanese came to study Philippines' design in air-chilled cinema houses of the 1930s.

Aside from that, I recall a showing of a prewar Carmen Rosales - Tita Duran film Panambitan here in Honolulu back in 1972. I'm wondering where that film ended up if it is not on the list of the five remaining extant films of pre-December 1941. Would you know?

Thanks for the interesting info. I always thought Panambitan as a beautiful Harana song and didn't know a movie existed until I saw pre-war movie flyer of Corazon Noble mentioning the movie.

According to Dr. Clodualdo Del Mundo, film scholar and DLSU professor, in his book Native Resistance and Colonialism there are 3 reasons on the disappearance of nearly all the movies produced during the pre-war era.

1) World War devastated the Manila, where the home studios were located.

2) Films that survived the war were shown repeatedly in the movie houses until they could no longer be projected on screen.

3) Films were left exposed to chemical elements like Fungi that ate away the images and sounds of these films.

So Panambitan probably suffered the same fate as the other films that survived the war. It disappeared due to human neglect.

Actually, the survival of the 5 pre-war movies happened by chance.

1) Giliw Ko(1939)- A former LVN employee happened to hold on to a 16 mm print of the movie a personal remembrance. When this last remaining print was turned over to the government, it was sent to Australia for restoration.

2) Ibong Adarna(1941)- This movie survived in LVN's storage room.

3) Tunay na Ina and 4) Pakiusap(1939 and 1940)- Lino Brocka, one of the greatest filmmakers of Philippine cinema, happened to come across these movies being shown in a rundown theater in Escolta Manila. He immediately bought these movies to the puzzlement of the theater owner.

5) Zamboanga- Film scholar Nick Deocampo discovered this long-lost movie at the US Library of Congress.

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Originally Posted by Hawayano

prewar studio shot

Thanks! If you can find more articles, photos of the movies and moviestars of the golden age of philippine cinema(1930's-1950's), feel free to post them here.

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anyone who can provide a list of recent filipino films na ok? sans slapstick comedy films and rom-com staples...

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interesting film about ph-us war (foreign production)

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"Tinimbang ka ngunit kulang"

What a nice movie

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This would be National Heritage in Music

Recuerdos de Filipinas y sus cantares (Philippine salon scene 1860)


Uploaded by blueyoyi on Oct 4, 2011


This is part of a medley of 19 Filipino song & dance (2:40) genres paraphrased for piano by Diego C. Perez, a teacher, sometime in 1860. Perez did not rework the tunes but strung them simply "as is" with idiomatic pianistic transitions. This was typical salon music setting in those times where flute, violin, guitar, cello and Spanish bandurria were at home in parties or gatherings of affluent Filipinos.

The UP Dance Company reconstructs Philippine dances - 2:40 - with assistance from Prof. Cora Inigo. This was part of a presentation by the University of the Philippines, College of music entitled - MUSICS OF PHILIPPINE NATIONHOOD. Original Philipine music from the 17th century to 1986.

I can not help notice the strong Spanish influence .... sometimes there are parts that can be mistaken as Mexican. Not a surprise at all as the Philippines like Mexico was a colony of Spain for over 300 years.
lo horrible! ¡Qué dulce! hehehahaa!!!!!

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Antonio Molina - MALIKMATA - Enzo


Uploaded by blueyoyi on Jul 10, 2010

The closest I can think of for the Filipino word malikmata is .... a mirage ... an illusion. This haunting, emphatic yet occasionally gentle composition was by Filipino National Artist Antonio Molina and has been adopted for so many genres including dance and poetry. In this composition, one can easily hear the big influence Debussy had on the composer.
Wish you like the way Enzo interpreted the piece. THANKS !!