Two Weeks Off

{{short description|1929 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Two Weeks Off

| image = File:Two Weeks Off.jpg

| caption =

| director = William Beaudine

| producer = Richard A. Rowland

| screenplay = F. McGrew Willis
Joseph F. Poland

| based_on = {{based on |the novel, Weeks Off, a Summertime Comedy|Thomas Barrows
Kenyon Nicholson}}

| starring = Dorothy Mackaill

| music = Alois Reiser (uncredited)

| cinematography = Sidney Hickox

| editing = Ralph Holt

| distributor = First National Pictures{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10100/default.html |title=Two Weeks Off |access-date=February 19, 2015 |work=Library of Congress}}

| released = {{film date|1929|5|12}}

| runtime = 88 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Sound (part-talkie)
English intertitles

}}

Two Weeks Off is a 1929 American sound part-talkie comedy film directed by William Beaudine.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/114879/Two-Weeks-Off/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225025938/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/114879/Two-Weeks-Off/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 25, 2013 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |author=Hal Erickson |title=Two Weeks Off |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2013 |access-date=December 16, 2013 }} In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. According to the film review in Variety, 25 percent of the total running time featured dialogue. Variety 26 Jun 1929 p. 25 https://archive.org/details/variety95-1929-06/page/n232/mode/1up The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. A complete nitrate print survives at the UCLA Film & Television Archive. https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/17p22dp/alma991278613506533 Two weeks off / First National Pictures ; presented by Richard A. Rowland ; director, William Beaudine ; scenario, F. McGrew Willis and Joseph Poland ; dialogue, Richard Weil.

1929; 7 reels of 7 (ca. 7000 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. nitrate print.