According to Lahue "Tango Tangles" was released as a split reel with the
educational short "Washing Our Clothes" (working title, "Laundry Educational")
shipped on Feb. 17, 1914, released Mar. 9. Each film is listed as 1/2 reel in
"Mack Sennett's Keystone" (1971). However in the earlier "Kops and Custards"
(1968) "Tango" is listed as 3/4 reel and the doc. at 1/4 reel.
On 13 Aug 2003 14:53:48 -0700, east_on.DeleteThis@hotmail.com (Murray) wrote:
>Yes, this seems to make sense. There are a lot of intertitles that
>just seem unneccessary.
>
>doug <dsulpy.DeleteThis@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<110820031708373969%dsulpy@optonline.net>...
>> I was leafing through "Billboard" a week or so ago (the March, 1914
>> issue), and noticed that "Tango Tangles" was announced as a split reel.
>> Suddenly - a lot of things made more sense. The available print runs
>> quite short ANYWAY, and I'm thinking now that W.H. Productions padded
>> the film in order to flesh it out a little - adding the tango sequence
>> in the beginning (which, now that I think of it, looks nothing like the
>> rest of the film), and tossing in a lot of time-filling intertitles to
>> boot.
>> The footage counts given in Asplund are inconclusive but suggestive -
>> the footage count given for "Tango Tangles" (702 ft) IS closer to "Kid
>> Auto Races" (620) than the standard one-reel length, which runs about
>> 1000 ft.
>>
>> -- >> Stay informed about: The 3rd Keystone Split Reel 
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