Commencement Day

{{Infobox film

| name = Commencement Day

| image = OG Commencement Day.jpg

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| director = Robert F. McGowan
Mark Goldaine

| producer = Hal Roach

| starring = Joe Cobb
Jackie Condon
Mickey Daniels
Allen Hoskins
Mary Kornman
Ernie Morrison
Jannie Hoskins
Gabe Saienz
Andy Samuel
Dinah the Mule
Gus Leonard
Lyle Tayo
Dorothy Vernon

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| cinematography =

| editing =

| music =

| distributor = Pathé Exchange

| released = {{Film date|1924|05|04}}

| runtime = 17:30

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

| budget =

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Commencement Day is a 1924 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/CommencementDay1924.html |title=Silent Era: Commencement Day |accessdate=September 13, 2008|work=silentera}}{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226143/Commencement-Day/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520151639/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226143/Commencement-Day/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |title=New York Times: Commencement Day |accessdate=September 13, 2008| first=Mordaunt |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author-link=Mordaunt Hall |date=2011 | last=Hall}} It was the 25th Our Gang short subject to be released.{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |last2=Bann |first2=Richard W. |title=Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals |date=1977 |publisher=Crown Publishers |pages=42–43 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/42/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}}

Plot

Mickey gets in a fight with another boy over Mary. The parents show up for Commencement Day at school and listen to the kids recite and play their musical instruments. Jackie puts pepper in Joe's saxophone. Mickey loses his frog. Farina falls in a well. While the parents are out rescuing Farina, the kids get in a food fight.

Production notes

When the silent Pathé Our Gang comedies were syndicated for television as "The Mischief Makers" in 1960, Commencement Day was retitled Little Red Schoolhouse. This film was also made available for the 16mm home movie market as Graduation Day.