Del Courtney and Orchesta leads off with “Symphony Moderne” and concludes with “Second Hugarian Rhapsody” and then shows their versatility by providing the music while The Town Criers sing “Just a-Sittin’ and a-Rockin’”; Dottie Dotson does double duty on “Knock Me a Kiss” and “Do You Believe in Loving, Honey”, and Universal dance director Louis Da Pron tap-dances to Stephen Foster’s “Swanee River.” This carried a production number of 1311, which Universal, either short of imagination or lost the count number, used the same number again on a 1955 short with the Ink Spots and the Barry Sisters. For those, if any, who track such, make this 1311-1946 and the other one 1311-1955. Warners recycled footage in their Shorts and Universal went one better by recycling footage and numbers. Columbia would just reissue the original and put a different number on it. Rhyme or reason was never a big issue in Hollywood. RKO used five-digit numbers such as 63546, which quickly blows the theory that production numbers represented films-released-in-sequence by a studio. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
Released: | August 28, 1946 | |
Runtime: | 15 min | |
Genres: | Music Short | |
Cast: | Del Courtney Louis Da Pron The Town Criers Dottie Dawson | |
Crew: | Will Cowan | |
grasshopper rex : Haha! Brilliant! A slow burn, but the superb acting by all will sustain you until that fin...