Some Pumpkins | 1929 | Musical short, Comedy

Title: Some Pumpkins | 1929 | Musical short, Comedy Director: Murray Roth Studio: Warner Bros. Starring: Sam Summers, Estelle Hunt Release Date: December 21, 1929 Runtime: 9 Format: 35mm, black-and-white, sound Country: United States Language: English Genres: Musical, Comedy, Variety short --- Chapters: 00:00:00 Opening titles and barn dance setup 00:02:00 Comic patter begins 00:04:00 Rustic song medley 00:06:30 Dance routine and crowd bits 00:08:20 Finale and close --- Summary: A filmed vaudeville turn featuring Sam Summers and Estelle Hunt, Some Pumpkins captures a mock barn dance filled with rural humor, light comic banter, and musical numbers. The short showcases the duo’s stage-honed timing and interplay, presenting a compact slice of country-themed entertainment for early sound-era audiences. Presented as a Vitaphone Varieties entry, the film emphasizes performance over plot, with songs, jokes, and dance beats driving its nine-minute runtime. Its straightforward format reflects how studios used short subjects to bring popular vaudeville acts to nationwide moviegoers at the end of the 1920s. --- Background: Produced as part of Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone Varieties series, the short was directed by Murray Roth and filmed in Brooklyn, New York. Summers and Hunt—married in 1914—set their act at a country barn dance, aligning with a run of rural-themed Vitaphone shorts aimed at audiences that embraced country music on 78 rpm records. The film is listed as Vitaphone program no. 929 and runs about nine minutes. --- Trivia: Vitaphone number 929 corresponds to a copyright date of December 21, 1929. Summers and Hunt were a long-running vaudeville duo; sources note they married in 1914 and performed together for years before this screen appearance. The short has been screened in 35mm by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Some Pumpkins appears on the Warner Archive Collection DVD set Vitaphone Varieties Volume Three , released in 2017. --- Public Domain / Rights: Original Release: December 21, 1929 Original Studio / Distributor: Warner Bros. Copyright Status: Public Domain Renewal: Unknown --- Hashtags: SomePumpkins 1929 Vitaphone WarnerBros PublicDomain ClassicShorts Vaudeville MurrayRoth Source page: https: //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Some_Pumpkins_(1929).webm Direct media URL: https: //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Some_Pumpkins_%281929%29.webm