A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Roy Smeck. Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Roy Smeck [himself].

The Vitaphone Corporation production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Cinematography by [?] Ed H. DuPar? / Premiered 6 August 1926 at the Warners Theatre in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Vitaphone production number 0302. The production was shot at the Manhattan Opera House in New York, New York. The film was a short subject in the Vitaphone program which featured Don Juan (1926). / Full-sound film.

Performance: Musical.

Synopsis: Smeck plays instrumental numbers on slide guitar, banjo, ukulele and harmonica.

Survival status: Print exists [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Early sound film - Musical instruments: Banjos, Harmonicas, Slide guitars, Ukuleles - Musicians - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 15 December 2024.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Geduld-Birth p. 127; Maltin-Selected p. 22 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.