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14 April 1934 (USA) morePlot:
The first 3 minutes of this Vitaphone Melody Master feature Phil Spitalny's orchestra playing popular music... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Complete credited cast) | Phil Spitalny | ... | Himself (as Phil Spitalny & His Orchestra) |
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Vitaphone production reel no. 1635. moreSoundtrack:
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A VITAPHONE MELODY MASTER Short Subject.
A sweet Hungarian maiden has a musical BIG CITY FANTASY as she searches for her father's cousin in America's grandest metropolis.
This touching little film uses music most effectively to show the young woman's odyssey through the various sections of New York City--Jewish, Italian, African-American, etc. It is a fine example of what could be achieved in a very few minutes of screen time with skill on both sides of the camera.
That's a swing version of Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2' which Phil Spitalny's Orchestra performs during the opening sequence of the film. Movie mavens will remember director Joseph Henabery for his moving performance as Abraham Lincoln in D. W. Griffith's monumental THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915).
Often overlooked or neglected today, the one and two-reel short subjects were useful to the Studios as important training grounds for new or burgeoning talents, both in front & behind the camera. The dynamics for creating a successful short subject was completely different from that of a feature length film, something akin to writing a topnotch short story rather than a novel. Economical to produce in terms of both budget & schedule and capable of portraying a wide range of material, short subjects were the perfect complement to the Studios' feature films.