Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats (1929)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Release Date:

March 1929 (USA)

Genre:

Musical | Short

Plot:

The popular jazz band in performance. The numbers presented include "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "On the Road to Mandalay," "Chinese Dream," "Fanfare" and "Here Comes the Showboat."

Cast

Paul Tremaine

...

Himself (as Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats)

Runtime:

USA:7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Vitaphone)

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Vitaphone production reel #742

Soundtrack:

Mississippi Mud

Jazz Singer Disc 3

At the Seashore (1929)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Paul Tremaine and His Aristocrats (1929)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

Child Wonder, The (1929)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Lambchops (1929)

*** (out of 4)

Happy Hottentots, The (1930) ** 1/2 (out of 4)

The final selection of shorts from The Jazz Singer Collection features some pretty good stuff. At the Seashore is a stand up act, which has a few laughs, although the two stars can be a bit annoying. The standout here is a male who shows up at the end and it's clearly a spoof on gay people as is the final joke, which is certainly politically incorrect. The Paul Tremaine short is probably the best I've seen as it features a loud, rocking jazz version of "I've Been Working on the Railroad". Lambchops features Burns and Allen doing a very funny comic routine followed by a song.