''Love's Old Sweet Song'' is a 1923 American two-reel
short film
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
made in the
De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film was directed by
J. Searle Dawley
James Searle Dawley (October 4, 1877 – March 30, 1949) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright. Between 1907 and the mid-1920s, while working for Edison, Rex Motion Picture Company, Famous Player ...
and stars
Louis Wolheim,
Donald Gallaher,
Ernest Hilliard, and
Una Merkel in her film debut.
Cast
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Louis Wolheim as The Wanderer
* Helen Weir as Eunice
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Donald Gallaher as Charlie
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Ernest Hilliard as Mother
* Baby Margaret Brown as Babs
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Ernest Hilliard as Power
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Una Merkel
Production
This was one of the few two-reel films produced by Lee de Forest in Phonofilm due to problems with changeovers when the film was projected in theaters. In June 1923, de Forest and the film's cinematographer
Freeman Harrison Owens became embroiled in a legal battle over the Phonofilm process and patents.
See also
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Phonofilm
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Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...
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Abraham Lincoln (1924 film short), another two-reel Phonofilm
References
External links
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Progressive Silent Film List: ''Love's Old Sweet Song''at silentera.com
1923 films
Films directed by J. Searle Dawley
American silent short films
1923 short films
Phonofilm short films
American black-and-white films
Early sound films
1920s American films
1920s English-language films
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