Tad's Swimming Hole | |
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Directed by | King Vidor |
Written by | Judge Willis Brown |
Produced by | Judge Willis Brown |
Starring | Ernest Butterworth |
Production company | Boy City Film |
Distributed by | General Film Company |
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Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Tad's Swimming Hole is a 1918 American silent short comedy film directed by King Vidor. It was the fourth of a series of twenty films funded by Judge Willis Brown as both moral lessons and promotional films.
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Like many American films of the time, Tad's Swimming Hole was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut all closeups of naked boys facing the camera. [1]
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