Swing Your Partners | |
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Directed by | Alfred J. Goulding |
Produced by | Hal Roach |
Starring | Harold Lloyd |
Production company | Rolin Films |
Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
Release date |
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Running time | 1 reel |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Swing Your Partners is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Copies of the film survive in two collections. [1]
Harold and Snub are two vagrants who are mistaken for visiting dance experts by the proprietor of Professor Tanglefoot's Dance Academy because of their startling resemblance to them. Harold teaches a class of female pupils a few interesting and lively dance steps before the real pair of experts arrive.
Like many American films of the time, Swing Your Partners was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of two near views of Lloyd on a piano stool facing the camera. [2]
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