In the opening dance scene. They are waltzing round and around.

I checked the soundtrack and unable to place the melody. Although
I have heard the melody somewhere. It is not the blue Danube waltz.
Or the heaven's gate waltz.

What is that melody??

I think it was the Blue Danube, only a little faster. Read this article.. Blessings:):)


Can you tell us about the first sequence, how did you prepare the editing ?
This editing asked for a lot of preparation and work. It was very hard to shoot this sequence but it was also delightful. Editing is a very entertaining time in the making of the movie. I chose this song - The Blue Danube - for several reasons. First it was the first music to be called sexy in the 1870's. It was the first one for which the dancers could touch each other. Before that dances were very military. Therefore it was a revolutionnary dance at the time and I found it was appropriate at this time of the History of the United States because the Civil War had just ended. Everything was changing in the country. It was a revolution, just like The Blue Danube. It was considered as diabolic. The version in the movie is played by the Philarmonic Orchestra of New York but with a faster tempo, on which you cannot dance. Though I liked this rapidity. The sequence was shot in England, with professional dancers, and they couldn't follow the rhythm with their costumes and the grass. After a minute and a half they couldn't breathe. This sequence lasts exactly three minutes and it's divided into two parts of one minute and a half that I shot with six cameras. If I had just one, I would have killed the dancers. They would have died before my very eyes.