Warming Up (1928)

Directed by

Fred C. Newmeyer

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent baseball film that was released with synchronized music and sound effects. It follows a team of baseball players as they prepare for a big game, with real major league players appearing as themselves.

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What happens

Warming Up is a 1928 synchronized sound American baseball film starring Richard Dix and Jean Arthur, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is significant historically as Paramount's first sound film. Whilst the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Western Electric Sound System sound-on-film process. The film's soundtrack was dubbed onto the sound-on-disc format for those theatres that lacked equipment needed to be the sound-on-film process. No prints of Warming Up are known to currently exist, and the film is considered lost. The film featured several major league baseball players as themselves. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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