I was very confused by "In the Good Old Summer Time" as I watched. While there were a few sound film shorts in the mid 1920s, they were very rare and mostly were made by the Vitaphone unit from Warner Brothers. This one could have been sound originally...IMDB doesn't say. But if it did come with an accompanying disc for sound (the standard until the late 1920s), it must be missing as this sing-a-long features the song "In the Good Old Summetime" but the sound accompanying this short on a DVD from Alpha Video has a Dixieland Jazz sort of soundtrack which has nothing to do with the sound. It is VERY possible that the film never originally had sound and the piano or organ player at the theater was to provide this music. Regardless, the Fleischer Brother's star, Koko the Clown, is in this one introducing the song as a simply animated dog acted like the old bouncing ball. Mildly interesting but tough to love with its current soundtrack. Perhaps you can find one with the original sound or at least the correct song.
Review of In the Good Old Summer Time
