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I've written before about the revue "The Air Ship" - which I'd love to find. The posters are seen on the blog Paleofuture HERE.

This wax cylinder recording sounds like it could be from that show, doesn't it?

Sheet music for the wax cylinder recording's song is on the Internet Archive, giving the composers - so I suppose it must just point up how trendy air ships were circa 1900 ;D unless the farce included songs from many people.

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- 9:43 PM

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This is WONDERFUL! I think you have the soundtrack to your Georges Méliès piece. I have a backdrop for the act (a luverly sky and proscenium) and should like to contribute a textured, stage-scaled airship or Montgolfier-designed aerostat that catches fire and burns slowly while the chorus whistles and ascends....

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Young Geoffrion : 12 March, 2008 19:00

We miss you dreadfully, Osprey ... please come home ... all is forgiven.

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Anonymous : 13 March, 2008 06:14

Oh, Edward - I didn't know you cared. And Young, that sounds an excellent contribution! I will have to do a strutting anim for Geo. and hope SOMEONE will take it on.

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Osprey : 13 March, 2008 21:43

"The Zeppelin Reader, Stories, Poems, and Songs from the Age of Airships". Edited by Robert Hedin, University of Iowa Press, 1998.

Contains the sheet music for "The Air Ship", by Fred H Beck, 1897

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Molly Montale : 14 March, 2008 11:29

The entire musical farce "The Air Ship" is what I want - indeed it would be a wonderful machinima. Molly, are any of the other songs in that book labeled "From the Musical Farce The Air Ship" perhaps? How about emailing a scan of the Air Ship song to me at osprey dot therian at gmail dot com?

Lucy has highly-developed researching skills - maybe she'd want to jump in with us and cast about for this forgotten (I suppose) piece of theatre history.

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Osprey : 14 March, 2008 16:02

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