Underplayed Gems

Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me (1924)

Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me poster
Directed by
Dave Fleischer
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
3 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is a short silent cartoon from the 1920s. It features animated characters singing a popular 1905 song about putting a rose on the singer. The film was part of a series that used early sound technology to bring music to the screen.

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What happens

Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me is a film, produced by Out of the Inkwell Studios in the Phonofilm sound-on-film system, and released on March 1, 1925, as part of the Song Car-Tunes series. Max Fleischer, Lee de Forest, Hugo Riesenfeld, and Edwin Miles Fadiman formed Red Seal Pictures to release the Song Car-Tunes series. Early titles in the Song Car-Tunes series were Oh Mabel, Come Take A Trip in My Airship, and Goodbye My Lady Love, all released in May and June 1924. They were the first sound cartoons, (predating Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928)). The Song Car-Tunes series eventually totaled 36 films, including 21 made in the Phonofilm sound system. "Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me" is a popular song from 1905. The Fleischers re-released this film on July 6, 1929, as simply Mother, Pin a Rose on Me, part of their Screen Songs series, made in Western Electric, and released through Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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