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Love at First Flight
(1928) United States of America
B&W/Color : Two reels
Directed by Eddie Claine (Edward F. Cline)
Cast: Daphne Pollard [Polly Polka, a dance instructor], Lige Conley [Andy McCannick], Madeline Hurlock [Nita Nutti], Joe Young (Roger Moore) [Jimmy Hawks]; Art Rowlands [the radio announcer], Andy Clyde [the beach cook], George Gray [the man whose face is stepped on], Anita Barnes [a bathing girl], Gloria Lee [a bathing girl], Lucille Miller [a bathing girl], Patsy O’Leary [a bathing girl], Barbara Pierce [a bathing girl], Aloha Porter [a bathing girl], Thelma Salter [a bathing girl], Hyca Slocum [a bathing girl], Kathryn Stanley [a bathing girl], Leota Winters [a bathing girl], Madalynne Field [the first fat girl], June Gittleson [the second fat girl], Ernie Alexander, Betty Arlen, Barbara Clayton, Dick French, Greta Granstedt, Julia Griffith, Minette Grosse, Fronzie Gunn, Charles Hammond, Jimmy Hertz, Bud Jamison, Ray Johnson, Margaret Keeler, Alice Lyndon, Harold McNulty, John Merton, Henry M. Mollandin, Norman Rockwell, Paul Ross, Frankie Simonds, Ted Stroback, Mary B. Stuart, Elsie Tarron, Jack Thomas, Renee Whitney, Mary Wiggins, [?] Pepper the cat or Pussums the cat? [Tom Sing Long]
Mack Sennett Comedies production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated [Pathécomedy]. / Produced by Mack Sennett. Scenario by Douglas Bronston and Jefferson Moffitt, from a screen story by Earle Rodney. Production supervision by John A. Waldron. Costume design by Madame Violette. Properties by Ernie Alexander, Sidney Clifford, Don Redfern, Babe Stafford and Redmond Stevens. Assistant directors, V.K. Shimer and Ted Stevens. Cinematography by St. Elmo Boyce, Lee Davis, Chandler House, Lewis Jennings (Louis Jennings), Vernon L. Walker and William Williams. Technicolor cinematography by Ray Rennahan and Palmer Miller. Art effects (animation) by Edwin Bower Hesser. Film editor, William Hornbeck. Intertitles written by Al Giebler (A.H. Giebler) and Betty Browne. / Released 29 January 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Originally, two-color Technicolor footage (a total of 162 feet) was presented during the main title credits in reel one and for the Butterfly dance sequence in reel two. The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1929, presumably for the immodest presentation of the Sennett Bathing Girls. / Silent film.
Comedy.
Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of Jon C. Mirsalis (Gordon Berkow collection) [Kodascope 16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 31 March 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Robertson-British p. 186; Sinyard-Silent p. 44 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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