Silent Era Information*Progressive Silent Film List*Lost Films*People*Theaters
Taylorology*Articles*Home Video*Books*Search
 
Foolish Wives BD
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  The Air Circus (1928)
 
Progressive Silent Film List
A growing source of silent era film information.
This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.
About This Listing

Report Omissions or Errors
in This Listing

 

The Air Circus
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7702 feet
Directed by Howard Hawks and Lew Seiler (Lewis B. Seiler)

Cast: Louise Dressler [Mrs. Blake], David Rollins [Buddy Blake], Arthur Lake [‘Speed’ Doolittle], Sue Carol [Sue Manning], Charles Delaney [Charles Manning], Heinie Conklin [Jerry McSwiggin], Earl Robinson [Lieutenant Blake]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Screenplay by Norman Z. McLeod and Seton I. Miller, with dialogue by F. Hugh Herbert, from a screen story by Graham Baker and Andrew Bennison. Assistant director, William Tummel. Dialogue director, Charles Judels. Cinematography by Dan Clark (Daniel B. Clark). Film editor, Ralph Dixon. Intertitles written by William Kernell. Presented by William Fox. / © 1 September 1928 by Fox Film Corporation [LP25586]. Released 30 September 1928. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Reviews: [Photoplay, April 1929, page 8] Collegiate stuff in an aviation training school. Good.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film - Transportation: Airplanes

Listing updated: 18 July 2009.

References: Geduld-Birth p. 234 : Photoplay-192904 p. 8 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  The Air Circus (1928)
 
Become a Patron of Silent Era

SUPPORT SILENT ERA
USING THESE LINKS
WHEN SHOPPING AT
AMAZON

AmazonUS
AmazonCA
AmazonUK

When Knighthood Was in Flower BD/DVD

Floating Weeds BD

Vitagraph BD

Foolish Wives BD

*