Canned Harmony
About Canned Harmony
A professor will not let his daughter marry a man who is not a musician. Billy, played by Billy Quirk, cannot play. His roommate tells him to hide a phonograph in a musical disguise and bluff the professor. Alice Guy-Blaché directed the Solax comedy. Blanche Cornwall plays the daughter.
Cast & crew
More about Canned Harmony
Released in 1912. The listed length is 12 minutes. Lee Beggs and Darwin Karr are billed. A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-canned-harmony.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The music is a record, not a lesson he learned overnight.
- Guy-Blaché has the direction.
- Quirk is Billy. Cornwall is the daughter.
- The professor's rule is the whole obstacle.
Scenes
- Billy performs with the record hidden on him.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-canned-harmony)
