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Canned Harmony
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché

Cast: Billy Quirk [Billy, Evelyn’s sweetheart], Blanche Cornwall [Evelyn, the musician’s daughter], Lee Beggs [Evelyn’s father, the musician], Darwin Karr [Dick, Billy’s Friend]

Solax Film Corporation production; distributed by Film Supply Company of America. / Produced by Alice Guy-Blaché. / Released 9 October 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Solax release number 198. The film features a triptych shot of the two lovers talking on the phone separated a distance represented by a street scene.

Comedy.

Synopsis: A musical father will not let his daughter marry anyone who is not a musician. Her fiancee gets the suggestion from a friend that he pose as a violin player and use a phonograph to fool her father. The young man mimes to the hidden phonograph while performing for his lover’s father. Pleased with the “musician,” the father approves his daughter’s marriage. After the wedding ceremony the deception is discovered.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Cylinder phonographs - Disguises - Impostors - Ladders - Laundry baskets - Maids - Musical instruments: Pianos, Violins - Musicians - Telephones - Triptych shots - Weddings - Wigs

Listing updated: 10 February 2015.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.

 
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