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According to a studio production chart in the 4 Jun 1921 Camera, Bing Bang Boom was in its first week of filming at Brunton Studio in Hollywood, CA. The 30 Jul 1921 Camera reported that the film was in the cutting room. ...

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According to a studio production chart in the 4 Jun 1921 Camera, Bing Bang Boom was in its first week of filming at Brunton Studio in Hollywood, CA. The 30 Jul 1921 Camera reported that the film was in the cutting room.

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GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS
SOURCE CITATIONS
SOURCE
DATE
PAGE
Camera
4 Jun 1921
p. 10
Camera
30 Jul 1921
p. 10
CAST
PRODUCTION CREDITS
NAME
PARENT COMPANY
PRODUCTION COMPANY
DISTRIBUTION COMPANY
NAME
CREDITED AS
CREDIT
DIRECTORS
Asst dir
WRITER
PHOTOGRAPHY
Robert Newhardt
Cine
SOURCES
LITERARY
Based on the short story "Bing Bang Boom," by Raymond Leslie Goldman in Argosy All-Story Weekly (31 Jul--28 Aug 1920).
LITERARY SOURCE AUTHOR
DETAILS
Alternate Title:
Bing-Bang-Boom
Release Date:
January 1922
Premiere Information:
New York State license: 6 Jan 1922
Production Date:
began late May 1921
Physical Properties:
Silent
Black and White
Length(in reels):
5
Country:
United States
Language:
English
SYNOPSIS

"Bertrand Bancroft Boom, nicknamed 'Bing, Bang' Boom, through ill luck has hard time keeping a job. Settlement of a war claim of his grandfather's brings him $20,000 and he is persuaded to buy a country hotel. Visiting the place he finds he has been buncoed, but with the aid of the editor of the village paper he succeeds in finally getting the best of the village boss who has cheated him. He also opens the hotel as a health resort and wins the hand of one of the town's belles after having experienced many difficulties, including a fight with a thug hired to beat him." (Moving Picture World, 22 Jul 1922, p. ...

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"Bertrand Bancroft Boom, nicknamed 'Bing, Bang' Boom, through ill luck has hard time keeping a job. Settlement of a war claim of his grandfather's brings him $20,000 and he is persuaded to buy a country hotel. Visiting the place he finds he has been buncoed, but with the aid of the editor of the village paper he succeeds in finally getting the best of the village boss who has cheated him. He also opens the hotel as a health resort and wins the hand of one of the town's belles after having experienced many difficulties, including a fight with a thug hired to beat him." (Moving Picture World, 22 Jul 1922, p. 308.)

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Name Occurs Before Title
AFI Life Achievement Award

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