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The Dancin' Fool is a surviving 1920 American silent romantic comedy film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Sam Wood directed this one of his earliest efforts. Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels star, at the time Paramount was making them a popular team in replacement of Reid's previous female lead Ann Little.
Production. Like The Jazz Singer, The Singing Fool was a melodrama with musical interludes, and as such was one of the film industry's first musical films. Produced during the transition period between silent film and talkies, the movie was released in both sound and silent versions.
Record by Uncle Dave Macon from the year 1925. " The Girl I Left Behind ", also known as " The Girl I Left Behind Me ", is an English folk song dating back to the Elizabethan era. [1] It is said to have been played when soldiers left for war or a naval vessel set sail. According to other sources the song originated in 1758 when English Admirals ...
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue ). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of inter- title cards .
Clearly, music in the silent film era was as prominent as the images, for better or for worse. At the beginning of the silent film era, music had been used to mask the sound of the projector and to offset the “ghostliness” of the images. For the most part the accompaniments were a stream of accompanying sound.
Dancin' Fool. " Dancin' Fool " is a song by Frank Zappa from his 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti. It was the first of two singles released from the album, followed by the second single " Bobby Brown (Goes Down) ." The song premiered on stage on the 30th of October 1977 (as can be heard on the Halloween '77 boxset released in 2017).
The Dancin' Fool: Directed by Sam Wood. With Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks. Fresh from the country, Sylvester Tibble secures a six dollar-a-week job at his Uncle Enoch Jones's antiquated jug business. One night he drifts into a cabaret and meets dancer Junie Budd who teaches him her profession.
