Swing Your Partners
| Swing Your Partners | |
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| Directed by | Alfred J. Goulding |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Starring | Harold Lloyd |
Production company | Rolin Films |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
Release date |
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Running time | 1 reel |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Swing Your Partners is a 1918 American silent comedy short film featuring Harold Lloyd. Copies of the film survive in two collections.[1]
Plot
Harold and Snub are two vagrants who are mistaken for visiting dance experts by the proprietor of Professor Tanglefoot's Dance Academy because of their startling resemblance to them. Harold teaches a class of female pupils a few interesting and lively dance steps before the real pair of experts arrive.
Cast
- Harold Lloyd
- Snub Pollard
- Bebe Daniels
- William Blaisdell
- Sammy Brooks
- Lige Conley (credited as Lige Cromley)
- William Gillespie
- Bud Jamison
Reception
Like many American films of the time, Swing Your Partners was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of two near views of Lloyd on a piano stool facing the camera.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Swing Your Partners at silentera.com
- ↑ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (17). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 43. October 19, 1918.
External links
Categories:
- 1918 films
- 1918 American films
- 1918 comedy films
- 1918 English-language films
- 1918 short films
- American black-and-white films
- American silent comedy short films
- English-language comedy short films
- Pathé Exchange films
- Short films directed by Alfred J. Goulding
- Surviving American silent films
- 1910s comedy short film stubs