CLAP HANDS

with

CHARLIE KUNZ
and the
CASANI CLUB ORCHESTRA


"CLAP HANDS" GB March 1935

Produced by: Fidelity Films . Directed by: Frank Dormand . Photography: D.P. Cooper . Sound: L.B. Buckley
Charlie Kunz, wizard of the piano, together with Teddy Brown, maestro of the xylophone, in a round of popular melodies. Backing is by the Casani Club Orchestra.
(Issued by Pathéscope in the UK on 9.5mm sound as T.9301 in April 1938. '2 reels' 547ft = 15 minutes)

Clap Hands Here Comes Charley (Rose, McDonald and Meyer) vocal: George Barclay
Getting Around and About (Carr and Ilda) vocal: George Barclay 
Dancing With My Shadow (Woods) with Teddy Brown (xylophone) 
Medley: I Don't Know Why (Turk and Ahlert)
             Everything I Have Is Yours (Adamson and Lane) 
             Miss Annabelle Lee (Clare and Pollack)
             Pink Elephants (Woods and Dixon)
Winter Wonderland (Smith and Bernard) with Teddy Brown (xylophone)
Medley: Caravan (Williams)
             Side By Side (Woods)
             I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Fields and McHugh)
             You're In Kentucky (Sure As You're Born) (Little, Gillespie and Shay)
Some sources also list Charlie playing "You Were There" - perhaps it is part of one of the medleys or maybe
 the 9.5mm release is shortened. (Denis Gifford lists the original running time as 18 minutes)
Footage from "Clap Hands" appears in the 10 min. cinema short "Twinkling Fingers" GB 1940 New Realm Pictures
 and in the later 65 minute pop feature "Climb Up The Wall" GB 1960 Negus Fancey/New Realm
Charlie Kunz, although prolific with gramophone recordings and stage shows, only appeared in few other films:
PATHETONE 171 GB 1933 (short) includes "Goodnight But Not Goodbye"
PATHETONE 184 GB 1933 (short) includes "Japanese Sandman"
PATHE PICTORIAL 834 GB 1934 (short) includes "Poor Butterfly"; "After You've Gone" & "Whispering"
PATHETONE 248 GB 1934 (short) includes "I Saw Stars" & "All I Do Is Dream of You"
PATHETONE 279 GB 1935 (short) includes "Clap Hands" & "Pink Elephants"
PATHE PICTORIAL NUMBER 913 GB 1935 (10 mins) concludes with "Dancing With My Shadow" played by
 Charlie Kunz (this film was issued on 17.5mm optical sound by Pathescope in the UK in March 1938)
Another source lists this film as containing "The Very Thought of You" & "Miss Annabelle Lee"
PATHETONE PARADE OF 1936 GB Feb 1936 Pathe - 36 min. variety film including re-issue of Pathetone 279
PATHETONE PARADE OF 1938 GB Feb 1937 Pathe - Variety film including re-issue of Pathe Pictorial 913
CHARLIE KUNZ SING-SONGS GB Dec 1942 National Screen Services - Six untitled five-minute shorts. 

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