The ''Music Master Series" was a series of 9 one-reel shorts featuring orchestral renditions of works by composers Bizet, Brahms, Liszt, Handel, Chopin, Beethoven, Strauss, Verdi, and Mendelssohn. Each was released in time for the corresponding holiday, commencing in September 1930 for Labor Day, and covering ten holidays through Independence Day 1931. The "American Holiday" series consisted of ten shorts, each only three minutes long, focusing on a certain holiday. Twelve were produced, one for each month, and released each month in 1930. The "Movie Horoscope" shorts were one-reelers entitled "People Born in January" through He even got into feature film distribution in 1930 with his American release of the 1928 British silent movie "The Lady of the Lake", with sound effects added. He also produced other film shorts series, such as the "Movie Horoscope" series, "American Holiday" series, and "Music Master Series". FitzPatrick (1894-1980) started his series of one-reel travel shorts in 1930 and released them independently. The link in my older post doesn't seem to work any more, so here's what I wrote about James FitzPatrick:
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