[pianotech] Anchors Aweigh!

[David Boyce]

I was just amusing myself by watching the scene from Anchors Aweigh! 
(1945) where José Iturbi and massed pianos play a version of Liszt's 
Hungarian Rhapsody Number 2 in the Hollywood Bowl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbeozgkNj8Y&feature=PlayList&p=63F2ED644416855A&index=0

How many brands and models of piano can you spot?  Is the prop stick on 
Iturbi's piano a replacement extra-long one, to open up the lid further 
for the camera?

And how, in 1945, did they get those camera movements?  Imagine you are 
behind the camera - how did they do some of that stuff?

And you have to love the from-beneath shot of a Iturbi (or someone) 
playing clear plastic keys!

Best regards,

David Boyce