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Syncopation
(1929) American
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Bert Glennon

Cast: Barbara Bennett, Bobby Watson, Ian Hunter, Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Morton Downey, Verree Teasdale, Osgood Perkins, Dorothy Lee, McKenzie Ward

Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation [RKO] production; distributed by Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation [RKO]. / Screenplay by Frances Agnew, with dialogue by Gene Markey, from a novel by Gene Markey. Dialogue direction by Bertram Harrison and James Seymour. / Photophone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format [?] and Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format? RCA Photophone sound-on-film sound system. / The first RKO film. The first Photophone feature. Lee’s film debut. The production was shot in New York. / Full-sound film.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 19 October 2007.

References: Jewell-RKO pp. 20, 172; Parish-Glamour p. 41 : ClasIm-279 p. C1.