The Yankee Doodler (1942)
Audience Score
StarringWilliam Frawley
DirectorHerbert Moulton
Plot
Ancestors of music videos YANKEE DOODLER ROSIE THE RIVETER and DEAR ARABELLA were made during World War II for coinoperated jukebox devices found in restaurants bars and train stations On builtin glass screens they projected 16mm films of artists performing popular tunes These examples although not in perfect condition are time capsules of their era William Frawley was a vaudevillian and musical comedy performer decades before he played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy
