| Warming Up | |
| Director: | Fred C. Newmeyer |
| Producer: | Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky |
| Starring: | Richard Dix Jean Arthur |
| Music: | Gerard Carbonara |
| Cinematography: | Edward Cronjager |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Runtime: | 80 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Sound (Synchronized) English Intertitles) |
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.[1]
The film featured several major league baseball players as themselves.
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.
The film featured a theme song entitled "Out of the Dawn" which was composed by Walter Donaldson.
This film is now considered a lost film, with no prints known to survive.