Silent Era Information*Progressive Silent Film List*Lost Films*People*Theaters
Taylorology*Articles*Home Video*Books*Search
 
Foolish Wives BD
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  Casey at the Bat (1922)
 
Progressive Silent Film List
A growing source of silent era film information.
This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.
About This Listing

Report Omissions or Errors
in This Listing

 
 
  De Wolf Hopper.
Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
 
 
Casey at the Bat
(1922) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 6 minutes
Directed by [?] Lee de Forest?

Cast: De Wolf Hopper [himself].

De Forest Phonofilm, Incorporated, production; distributed by De Forest Phonofilm, Incorporated. / Produced by Lee de Forest. From the poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. / Premiered 15 April 1922 at the Rivoli Theatre in New York, New York. / Phonofilm 35mm spherical format. Phonofilm sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Full-sound film.

Performance: Recitation.

Synopsis: A recitation by Hopper of the famous poem, in front of a stage curtain.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (Maurice H. Zouary collection) [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Early sound film - Sports: Baseball - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 20 December 2023.

References: Film viewing : Edelman-Baseball pp. 51-52; Geduld-Birth p. 97; Kerr-Silent p. 6; Lee-Not p. 25; Zouary-DeForest p. 227 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  Casey at the Bat (1922)
 
Jazz Singer DVD
Become a Patron of Silent Era

SUPPORT SILENT ERA
USING THESE LINKS
WHEN SHOPPING AT
AMAZON

AmazonUS
AmazonCA
AmazonUK

Kinetophone DVD

Floating Weeds BD

Vitagraph BD

Road to Ruin BD

Cat and the Canary BD

*