I am sure that most of the audience of today, if it has any interest in this short, is interested in seeing Babe Ruth, one of the great baseball players of all time. Well, I'm happy to see him too, but for me the best part of this movie is Zez Confrey, one of the great jazz composers of all time. He wrote such eccentricities as "Kitten on the Keys", "Stumblin'" and "Dizzy Fingers." He even plays a bit of "Kitten" in this one amidst film clips of Ruth hitting home runs and instructing him how to compose a new song. The result, "Home Run on the Keys" is given a full band orchestration, but there's more than enough of the weird timing that Confrey brought to his compositions to keep me happy.
There's also fellow songwriter Byron Gay and some singing moppets.
There's also fellow songwriter Byron Gay and some singing moppets.