Swing Your Partners

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Swing Your Partners
Directed byAlfred J. Goulding
Produced byHal Roach
StarringHarold Lloyd
Production
company
Rolin Films
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • September 29, 1918 (1918-09-29)
Running time
1 reel
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Swing Your Partners is a 1918 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. Copies of the film survive in two collections.[1]

Plot[edit]

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.

Cast[edit]

Reception[edit]

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]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Swing Your Partners at silentera.com
  2. ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (17). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 43. October 19, 1918.

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