A few moments with Eddie Cantor

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Movie
German title A few moments with Eddie Cantor
Original title A few moments with Eddie Cantor
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1923
length 6:53 minutes
Rod
Director Lee De Forest
production Lee De Forest
occupation

A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor is a music short film starring singer and entertainer Eddie Cantor , released on April 15, 1923.

background

A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor, Star of 'Kid Boots' (the full title of the film) was produced by Lee De Forest as part of his early experiments with the new medium of talkies in the early 1920s and premiered in 1923. The singer Eddie Cantor appears in the short film, which is almost seven minutes long. The De Forest Phonofilm filmed with the opinion of Al Rose purely film-scientific interest the singer on stage in a single setting at a fixed camera position in which he stand-up comedy and presented two songs, "The Dumber They Are, the Better I Like 'Em ”and“ Oh, Gee, Georgie! ”(By Jack Meskill , William Raskin and Al Sherman).

The film was made in Lee De Forest's Manhattan studio just before Cantor starred in the Broadway comedy Kid Boots , a production by Florence Ziegfeld . At the same time, De Forest's company was producing other music sound films with the singers Abbie Mitchell ( Songs of Yesterday 1922), George Jessel , Molly Picon , the vaudeville artists Eva Puck and Sammy White, and with the songwriters Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake ( Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs 1925)

The Cantor film is part of the Maurice Zouary Collection in the Library of Congress . In 2004 it was re-released in the More Treasures from American Film Archives DVD box , 1894-1931 by the National Film Preservation Foundation .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jazz in Film: Contributions to the History and Theory of an Inter-Media Phenomenon , edited by Willem Strank, Claus Tieber. LIT Verlag, 2014 [Series: Filmwissenschaft, Vol. 16]
  2. ↑ Al Rose: Eubie Blake . 1979, page 87
  3. ^ Richard Barrios: A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film . 1995, p. 16