How do you bring a 1920’s film score back to life?



Orchestral conductor and musicologist Gillian Anderson used math, archival scores and intense research to reconstruct the original musical accompaniment for D.W Griffith’s “Way Down Eat.”

The result? A restored masterpiece in which the music transforms what happens on screen.

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