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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 2006 |
21st Century Silents |
| Film Title |
DADDY DON’T |
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| Country |
USA |
| Release Date |
2005 |
| Production Co. |
(Wisconsin Bioscope |
| Director |
Ryan Dembroski |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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16 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 240 ft. |
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4' |
| Archive Source |
Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles. |
| Cast |
| Casem Abulughod, Jenni Staley, Max Fuller, Chris Dorsano |
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| Other Credits |
| prod., scen: Dan Fuller; f./ph: Zach Cuellar |
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| Program Notes |
Each autumn students at the University of Wisconsin make silent films as the Wisconsin Bioscope Company, a fictitious film studio from before the First World War, whose previous productions have been screened at the Giornate in 2000, 2004, and 2005. Set in a tenement apartment modeled on sets used by D.W. Griffith in The Sunbeam and The Musketeers of Pig Alley, Daddy Don’t is exactly the sort of dreary melodrama that modern audiences do not like. Even the pianist who accompanies Daddy Don’t hates it. Like Buster Keaton’s projectionist in Sherlock, Jr., the pianist decides to intervene in the film.
Daddy Don’t also exists in an alternate version starring Chicago pianist David Drazin, who uses it for live performances in which he interacts with the characters on the screen and the audience in the theatre. – DAN FULLER
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