Tad's Swimming Hole
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Tad's Swimming Hole | |
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![]() Contemporary advertisement for the films Flare-Up Sal and Tad's Swimming Hole | |
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 |
Release date |
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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.
Cast
- Ernest Butterworth
- Ruth Hampton
- Guy Hayman
- Ernest Butterworth Jr.
- Thomas Bellamy
Reception
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]
References
- ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (12). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 29. March 16, 1918.
External links
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- 1918 films
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- 1918 comedy films
- 1918 short films
- Films directed by King Vidor
- Silent American comedy films
- American silent short films
- American black-and-white films
- American comedy short films
- 1910s American films
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