The other 17 films in the Song Car-Tunes series were silent, designed to be shown with live music in movie theaters. Beginning with My Old Kentucky Home (1926), the cartoons featured the "follow the bouncing ball" gimmick, that lead the audience singing along with the film. The films included Oh Mabel, Come Take a Trip in My Airship, Darling Nelly Gray, Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?, and By the Light of the Silvery Moon. The Red Seal theater chain-formed by the Fleischers, DeForest, Edwin Miles Fadiman, and Hugo Riesenfeld-went from the East Coast to Columbus, Ohio.īetween May 1924 and September 1926, the Fleischers released 36 Song Car-Tunes series, with 19 using the Phonofilm sound-on-film process. They were largely unknown at the time because their release was limited to the chain of 36 theaters operated by The Red Seal Pictures Company, which was equipped with the early Lee DeForest Phonofilm sound reproduction equipment.
The early Song Car-Tunes were among the earliest sound films, produced two years before The Jazz Singer. They often featured popular melodies of the day. They are sing-along shorts featuring the famous " bouncing ball", a sort of precursor to modern karaoke videos. The Screen Songs are a continuation of the earlier Fleischer series Song Car-Tunes in color. Two of Paramount's one-shot cartoons quietly revived the format later: Candy Cabaret (1954) and Hobo's Holiday (1963). Paramount brought back the sing-along cartoons in 1945, now in color, and released them regularly through 1951. Screen Songs, formerly known as KoKo Song Car-Tunes, are a series of animated cartoons produced at the Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures between 19. Series of animated cartoons A cover by artist John Frew depicting a fictional bandleader Alexander and his men performing in a bandstand.
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