Seeking licensing

Through extensive research I was finally able to find some way to contact Cleopatra records, or It's parent company, golden lane records. I explained to them how we are trying to create a film opening for a school project, as well as it not making any profits; in hopes that they will allow us rights to use the song in the intro. Even if we move on from the idea as a whole in the intro, I believe it will be great to have it for the most part, due to the sheer intensity of the song.

The song being that made in the 30's provides that feel of creepiness through the non discreet lyrics and crispiness of the microphone. It also shouldn't go without saying that the song also provides that layer as it was produced during WW2 during either propaganda messages or bombings. This information can be found imbedded. The article goes onto describe the historical perspective of the song and its inclusion in recent media, and the specifics to those reasoning.

This in term lead me down a rabbit hole of music into the Horror industry, and I sought it as a way into aiding our movie intro if we were able to select the perfect music to include into the film, in order for it to reach its peak. This lead to me this article. The article describes certain usage of old songs such as "Run Rabbit Run" through out the history of classic film like Nightmare on elm street and The shinning. This quote truly does the entire passage justice. "In the same way that crumbling houses are scary, the songs of an earlier generation carry with them the sentiments and ideals of a world otherwise lost to us. The voices sealed in wax on vintage recordings pop and crackle with the tastes, attitudes and aspirations of a bygone age, whose inhabitants have long since grown up or passed away. Playing dusty records, one behaves like a medium conducting a séance, conjuring specters from another moment in time".

This should bolster the necessity for us to seek an older song we could use, of course with proper usage, to reach this pure reality of horror to create a perfect film opening. An example of such would be in Kubrick's, The shining. The two example shown below near the end of the film and middle, and although rather creepy, the usage of the old song along with it being seemingly played on a piano in the background truly should drive goosebumps under anyone's skin and should aid us down this path of following similar techniques under those like the great Kubrick.