The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921)
- Directed by
- Joe De Grasse
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A country schoolboy and a girl share a sweet love story in a rural American setting from the time of Tom Sawyer. The film relies on acting rather than intertitles to tell its simple tale.
lightheartednostalgicgentlewhimsicalslowsentimentalold-fashionedplayful
What happens
The Old Swimmin' Hole is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Joe De Grasse based on the poem The Old Swimmin' Hole by James Whitcomb Riley. A reviewer for Exhibitors Herald summarized, "The theme of the picture is a light one—just the pleasant little love story of a country schoolboy and girl in the era of the youth of Tom Sawyer." The film's lack of intertitles has been described as innovative. "This marks an advance in film making," the same reviewer claimed. "Their absence is not realized for some time after the feature has proceeded, a certain indication that it has been skillfully welded together without them and their place supplied by good acting." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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