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Are there any upcoming films in 2013 or later shot, or set Western Africa?

Are there any upcoming films in 2013 or later shot, or set Western Africa? Neptunekh94 (talk) 19:05, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Black November was shot in Nigeria, it comes out later this year, supposedly. 69.62.243.48 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:22, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Western Africa has its own homegrown cinema industry, e.g. Cinema of Burkina Faso and Cinema of Africa. Presumably it hasn't suddenly gone dormant. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:07, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Biographical information for Henry Joost

I am looking for some biographical information about this Director. Most information I get are for reviews of Paranormal Activity but nothing about his birth or education. Please help -Wikishagnik (talk) 01:22, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Cable telecasts

What is the most viewed cable telecast in history? What about in the 18–49 demographic? TRLIJC19 (talk • contribs) 22:00, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

If you're going to find the answer, http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/ is probably going to be a good place to start, as would be http://nielsen.com/global/en.html?worldWideSelected=true . One of those would probably be where I would start searching. --Jayron32 01:09, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Pay channel like HBO, or basic? Various Sopranos episodes did quite well...and then led to people cancelling their subscriptions. μηδείς (talk) 17:36, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Bad guy riff

The "bad guy" riff. Play^ⓘ

The tune to the right is presumably familiar to us all; it's the riff you hear in cartoons and such whenever a bad guy is up to his dirty deeds. In Anna Russell's analysis of The Ring of the Nibelung she jokes that it's the leitmotif of the curse placed on the ring. But where does it come from? Who wrote it? Does it have an actual name? I suppose before it was used in cartoons it was probably used in the scores for silent movies (it practically begs to be played with tremolo on an out-of-tune piano), but is its ultimate source known? Angr (talk) 22:03, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

I don't read music. Can you find an example on youtube? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:04, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Bugs, you can hear it starting at about 6:15 here. Apparently it's a piece by one Gaston Borch, called "Slimy Viper"; the National Library of Australia has the sheet music. Deor (talk) 02:30, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't read music either and was just guessing that that was what was being referred to. Dismas|^(talk) 02:33, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Ah, yes, that. Even if I had never heard it before, I would intuitively imagine what you might hear on a soundtrack where some evil character is sneaking up on someone. Decades ago, the puckish organist at one major league park used to play that tune when the umpires came out to gather at home plate before the game. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:40, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

You know, from the results of Googling his name, I'd say that Borch deserves an article here. Deor (talk) 02:59, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Deor, for finding a youtube clip. I didn't even know what to search for to find one. I agree that Gaston Borch should be made blue (and I wonder where biographical info on him can be found - the National Library of Australia link you supplied doesn't even know his dates, just saying "ca. 1900 - ca. 1950" which probably just means "was active in the first half of the twentieth century"). For that matter, "Slimy Viper" should be made blue too. Angr (talk) 06:37, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Where? This is literally the first result when I googled "Gaston Borch". This guy's dates are 1871-1926, but it seems to be the same person. Unless there were two or more composers called Gaston Borch. But this biography makes no mention of any such other people. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 06:46, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

IMDB entry:[1] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:49, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

I think the Australian archive dates refer more to the collection of which this music forms part, rather than to the composer or the work itself. I'm trying to pull together sufficient text and reliable sources here to start the article or to contribute if someone else does it first. If anyone has access to any offline reference works that mention him, that would be good. - Karenjc 13:16, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

• A clip of Anna Russell's Analysis of the Ring of the Nibelung can be found here; the part with this tune starts at about 8:00. Angr (talk) 18:09, 30 October 2012 (UTC)