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'The Man and the Moment' is a formerly lost[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefirstnational.html 'The Man and the Moment' at Lost Film Files: 'First National - 1929'] 1929 part-talkie romantic comedy film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Billie Dove. The film is mainly a silent film, with talking sequences as well as a synchronized music score and sound effects by the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. In the restored print, many scenes feature intertitles shown immediately after the spoken dialogue conveying the same words. Title cards at the beginning of the restored print explain that the visuals for the talking sequences came from a dupe internegative that was distributed in some territories in silent form; the intertitles were left in the sequences during the restoration to maintain synchronization with the Vitaphone soundtrack, but were not originally part of the film. The story is from a 1914 novel by Elinor Glyn, the famous novelist. The film was produced by Richard A. Rowland and released by First National Pictures. A British silent film had been film of the same story in 1918.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/ManAndTheMoment1929.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Man and the Moment'] at silentera.com[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=10538 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: 'The Man and the Moment']

Plot



Two young people get married for the wrong reasons, and after being chased for a day, they decide they belong together.

Cast



*Billie Dove as Joan

*Rod La Rocque as Michel

*Gwen Lee as Viola

*Robert Schable as Skippy

*Charles Sellon as Joan's Guardian

*George Bunny as Butler

Preservation



A restored and complete version of the film was screened July 4, 2015 at the Il cinema ritrovato festival in Bologna, Italy.[http://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/proiezione/the-man-and-the-moment/ 'The Man and the Moment' in the festival program'] The film was released on DVD by Warner Home Video in 2016.

The film wasnt included to the Associated Artists Productions' packages, as Warner Bros. is currently hold the distribution rights.[https://www.45worlds.com/dvd/disc/888574400972#google_vignette DVD - The Man And The Moment (1929)]

See also



*'The Man and the Moment' (1918)

*'Mad Hour' (1928)

References




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