Main Cast: Evelyn Venable, The Hall Johnson Choir, John Farrell MacDonald, Grant Richards, Bernadene Hayes
Release Year: 1938
Country: US
Run Time: 72 minutes
Plot
A concert singer goes blind after a rival throws acid in his face and leaves his New York girlfriend to return to his grandmother's plantation in Kentucky. The town centennial celebration his grandmother has planned is actually the method she has devised to help him get his self-confidence back. The singer performs some Stephen Foster songs, with plantation employees as his backup group, and feels like a true man again. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide
My Old Kentucky Home appears to be the first attempt at animated dialogue, as a dog in the film mouths the words "Follow the ball, and join in, everybody" in remarkable synchronization though the animation was somewhat limited (due to making sure that lip-synch was synchronized perfectly). This film came two years after the Fleischers started the Song Car-Tune series in May 1924, and two years before Paul Terry's Dinner Time (released September 1928) and Disney's Steamboat Willie (November 1928).
