Sound Car-Tunes
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Sound Car-Tunes or Song Car-Tunes is a series of short animation films produced by Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer between May 1924 and September 1926, all made in the Lee De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
There were about 30 titles in the series, beginning with Oh Mabel, Goodbye My Lady Love, and Come Take a Trip on My Airship (all 1924). All featured the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" gimmick, allowing the audience in the theater to sing along.
The Fleischers and DeForest had a falling out in September 1926 over the sound quality of DeForest's system, and the fact that DeForest Phonofilm Co. was about to file for bankruptcy. The Fleischers re-released some of the Song Car-Tune titles in 1928-1932 with new soundtracks made in the RCA Photophone process, continuing the series until 1938 under the name Screen Songs.
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
- Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic: A History of the American Animated Film (1980, revised 1987)
- Leslie Cabarga, The Fleischer Story (1988)
- Richard Fleischer, Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution (2005)
[edit] List of Song Car-Tunes
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (1926)
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1925)
- Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1924)
- Coming Through the Rye (1925)
- Daisy Bell (1926)
- Darling Nelly Gray (1926)
- Dixie (1925)
- East Side, West Side (The Sidewalks of New York) (1925)
- Goodbye My Lady Love (1924)
- Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly? (1926)
- In the Good Old Summertime (1926)
- Margie (1926)
- Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me (1924)
- My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean (1925)
- My Old Kentucky Home (1926)
- My Wife's Gone to the Country (1925)
- Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (1926)
- Oh Mabel (1924)
- Oh Suzanna (1925)
- Old Black Joe (1925)
- Old Pal (1925)
- Pack Up Your Troubles (1925)
- Sailing Sailing Over the Bounding Main (1925)
- The Sheik of Araby (1926)
- Swanee River (The Old Folks at Home) (1925)
- Sweet Adeline (1926)
- Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Dee-Aye (1925)
- Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1925)
- Toot Toot Tootsie (1926)
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching (1925)
- Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (1926)
- When I Leave This World Behind (1926)
- When I Lost You (1926)
- When the Midnight Train Leaves for Alabam' (1926)
- Yak-A-Doola-Hick-A-Doola (1926)
