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- TriviaOne of the 50 films in the 3-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film archives. This film is preserved by the Library of Congress (AFI/James Lippincott collection) and has a running time of 4 minutes.
- Alternate versionsthere is a version with the title "The Screen Tune", still as a cartoon to sing along
- SoundtracksTramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Boys Are Marching)
(aka The Prisoner's Hope) (1864)
Written by George Frederick Root
Sung by an unidentified voice at the cartoon theater
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching was a fascinating find of a Max Fleischer Screen Song cartoon to me
Just watched this silent Max Fleischer cartoon on the Internet Archive. In this one Ko-Ko the Clown is drawn in white chalk outline on a black board. He then takes that chalk and draws a band that marches through the city to a theater where he then takes out a board which has written on it an invitation to sing the title song of this short while following the Bouncing Ball. Near the end of the song, a cartoon of a prisoner then appears and replaces the Ball as it walks on the remaining lyrics. There was no sound so part of me was a little bored. Still, this was another fascinating find to me as an old-time animation buff. Oh, and there was a dog in the band. He looked like he could've been Ko-Ko's eventual pet, Fitz.
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- tavm
- Jan 26, 2012
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- Runtime4 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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