Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) sings "The Golfer's Lament."

Arthur Q. Bryan had a long career creating and voicing the part of Elmer Fudd in the Warner Brothers cartoons, but he also appeared in movies, radio shows and on T.V. Here's a chance to see him the the flesh (which is plentiful) singing "The Golfer's Lament." I originally thought this little film was produced by the Soundies Corporation for use in their Panoram visual jukeboxes, but I could not find any listing or mention of this title when I went searching. Even the imdb website turned up nothing on this film. I then turned to author, film and Soundies historian, Ted Okuda. Ted was about to fill in the blanks for me concerning this title. He writes: "The Golfer's Lament" was one of the shorts produced by the short-lived Vis-o-graph Corporation of America, a firm that tried to establish themselves at the same time as Soundies. Vis-o-graph got off to a flying start in January 1941 (the same month the first official Soundies were released) when Rudy Vallee assumed the firm's presidency. The company anticipated a total of 20,000 Vis-o-graph machines (similar to the Panoram machines used for Soundies) would be in operation during their first year.
Vallee took a active roll in the initial productions but he wound up resigning after a few weeks. By March 1941 Vis-o-graph had installed only 100 machines, a third as many as Panorams. Vis-o-graph discontinued operations shortly thereafter and prints of these shorts have floated around on the home movie market ever since."
You'll note that the print used for this presentation was not by Vis-o-graph, but by someone by the name of Joe Bonica. Joe Bonica was a producer of short subjects prepared exclusively for the home movie market. He released a lot of strip tease, nudie and burlesque type of subjects as well as musical shorts and excerpts. He even reprinted U.S. Government footage of the Atom Bomb test. Apparently, Bonica wasn't below pirating prints from other sources- redoing the titles and passing them off as his own. You'll notice on the main title of "The Golfer's Lament" that not only does Joe misspell Arthur Q. Bryan's last name as "Bryant," but he also leaves out the apostrophe in the word "Golfer's." Clearly, Joe Bonica either didn't do his homework to get it right or didn't care.