Warming Up (1928 film)

Warming Up is a 1928 synchronized sound American baseball film starring Richard Dix and Jean Arthur, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is significant historically as Paramount's first sound film. Whilst the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Western Electric Sound System sound-on-film process. The film's soundtrack was dubbed onto the sound-on-disc format for those theatres that lacked equipment needed to be the sound-on-film process.

The film featured several major league baseball players as themselves.

Plot
Bert Tulliver, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run hitter. In addition, Bert falls for the team owner's daughter Mary, who McRae has designs on.

Cast

 * Richard Dix as Bert Tulliver
 * Jean Arthur as Mary Post
 * Claude King as Mr. Post
 * Philo McCullough as McRae
 * Billy Kent Schaefer as Edsel
 * Roscoe Karns as Hippo
 * James Dugan as Brill
 * Mike Donlin as Veteran Baseball Player / Himself
 * Mike Ready	as Himself
 * Chet Thomas as himself
 * Joe Pirrone as himself
 * Wally Hood as himself
 * Bob Murray as himself
 * Truck Hannah as himself
 * Wade Boteler as Bit Part (uncredited)

Music
The film featured a theme song entitled "Out of the Dawn" which was composed by Walter Donaldson.

Preservation status
This film is now considered a lost film, with no prints known to survive.