Smiles (1929) | Smile Your Troubles Away with the Bouncing Ball

SMILES is a short musical film and contains the bouncing ball. It's one of the original series of Screen Songs from the Fleischer brothers. It was released on September 27, 1929.

A barbershop quartet sings the title song. That's pretty much it.

Directed by Dave Fleischer
The song used is "Smiles"
Music by Lee S. Roberts
Lyrics by J. Will Callahan

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Chapters
0:00 - Credits
0:17 - Cartoon
2:54 - Bouncing Ball
4:57 - Sing-A-Long
7:28 - The End

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