[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 061

Date1950 – 1956

Viewing NotesReel 61: [Archie Stewart can notes: Sound. Movie party starring Are Yoall Happy Douglass.] SOUND Screening notes: Archie holding microphone (Color), explains tests. Two takes: Archie lipsyncing to recording of 'Home on the Range.' Mary kneeling on floor to play toy piano, 'Swanee River.' Woman on ladder, underdressed man, Dr. Douglass, on ledge. Enact variation on balcony scene of 'Romeo and Juliet' Group of women genuflect, tend to man in bedouin dress. Spoof of Valentino's 'The Sheik.' Clip of belly dance, Frances Proper. Quartet of men and women wave flag as they lipsync to 'Star Spangled Banner.' Then sing their version. Monopoly game. Dr. T. R. Proper playing ragtime piano, singing 'Turkey in the Straw.' Five men dressed as surgeons at operating table [all doctors except Jim Allott, who was a veterinarian--doctors Proper, Snyder, Douglass, Traub]. Hand-lettered sign behind 'St Juke's Horspital.' Remove balloons, balls, weiners, rocks, etc. from his stomach. Man lipsyncing to 'Home on the Range.' Ukelele piano duet, Drs. Proper and Douglass. Multiple takes, man and woman playacting, fluffing lines., Dr. Douglass and Ruth Traub doing takeoff on Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.