As the only surviving sound film of the radically innovative Broadway star Jeanne Eagels, the film is an important piece of theater history, preserving the performance style of a brilliant, eccentric and spectacularly self-destructive actress (who would die of a drug overdose seven months after the film's release).
It is believed to be the only surviving sound film of Elgar, who makes a brief remark before conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, asking the musicians to "play this tune as though you've never heard it before".
In their common hope that time will work its healing ways, surviving kin sound far more persevering than vindictive, far more focused on wounded families than anonymous enemies.
If every vote counts, why do Ohio voters get to see the candidates 50-plus times while the rest of us are supposed to survive on sound bites?
Indeed, he was not the first pilot to survive the sound barrier, or be a martyr to high-speed flight, nor be a holder of the world air speed record.
Rudolph Valentino's movies are rarely seen today, but the adulation that accompanied his funeral in 1926 at the age of 31 helped make him the iconic screen lover and has ensured that his legend has lived on, while other silent heart-throbs like John Gilbert and Ramon Novarro, who survived into the sound era, have been forgotten.
When you first hear the refrain — "We don't know nothing about nothing/Except how to survive" — it sounds like a tribute to two people who still have a chance.
In a time when everyone is talking about falling music sales, and wonder if the recording industry as it's currently constituted can survive, this sounds like a great way for bands to create a more interactive experience with their fans.
It's in popular music that many of the rough sounds survived.
The girl survived, though the sounds of gunfire outside, and the occasional explosion in the night, made clear that in the siege of Misurata, there were many more casualties to come, and ample reasons for the migrant workers, still stranded along the roads to the port, to want to leave.
