Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: 'Projection Room' (Musical short)

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 02-24-2005, 12:41 PM:

Does anyone know anything about this film? I think it is from 1938, but the IMDB doesn't have it.

Posted by Mike Amici (Member # 2939) on 02-24-2005, 06:44 PM:

where did you hear about it?

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 02-25-2005, 01:38 AM:

I've got a print of it, had it for a couple of years, but never heard of any of the acts that appear in it. There is a 'Vitaphone' logo on it, but it's obviiously from long after the sound on disk era.

When I get time I'll get it out and make a list of the names; somebody may have heard of some of them.

Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 02-25-2005, 07:54 AM:

Warner Brothers made "Vitaphone" musical shorts well into the late 1930's. The "Vitaphone" was just a logo at that point.

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 02-26-2005, 03:27 AM:

Thanks for that Mitchell. Did Warners actually own the 'Vitaphone' name then? If so, was it always theirs, or did they buy it?

I'm going to scan a few frames, with the names of the performers, and also the main titles, which are quite a nice bit of graphics of the period. I'll post the scans here in a day or two. If nobody esle posts to this thread before then I'll have to edit this post, rather than making a new one, and that won't bump it up to the top again. Take a look in a couple of days, and see what you think.

I've called for the print, it's stored for me by somebody that lets me have the use of a few reels worth of vault space, in return for some material that I donated to them.

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 02-27-2005, 07:05 PM:

Vitaphone Corp. was part of the subsidiaries of Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.. It was used till the around 1956, when an investment group acquired control of the company from Harry M. Albert Warner. It was a holding company for the rights to the earlier films from the studio along with the Vitagraph trademark.

[ 02-28-2005, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: Bill Gabel ]