- Title: F-8128
- Summary: HOW TO GO TO A FRENCH RESTAURANT: WILLIE HOWARD. CRAZY MALE TEACHER AT HEAD OF CLASSROOM. READING FRENCH BOOK. WITH FRENCH ACCENT. TWO WOMEN AT TABLE. MANY WAITERS HELP WOMEN. PROFESSOR. GOATEE. LOOKS LIKE DALI. WAITER SERVES FOOD. POUR LIQUOR FOR FLAMBE. LIGHTS FOOD, EXPLOSION, MAN WITH BLACK ON HIS FACE. CAN'T PAY BILL IS DRAGGED OUT.
- Description:00:46:41 - YIDDISH DIALECT JEWISH VAUDEVILLE COMEDIAN WILLIE HOWARD APPEARS AS A CRAZY TEACHER WITH WILD HAIR AND A MEPHISTOPHELES MUSTACHE AND GOATEE SITTING AT THE TEACHERS DESK AT THE HEAD OF THE CLASS - A COLLEGE LANGUAGE CLASS 00:46:47 - ZOOM IN TO A HUMMING WILLIE HOWARD LOOKING AT A FRENCH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONAL BOOK ADDRESS CLASS ABOUT SPEAKING FRENCH - COMIC ROUTINE - PSEUDO FRENCH DIALECT MANGLES FRENCH LANGIUAGE 00:47:50 - THREE OVER ATTENTIVE WAITERS BOW TO TWO PRETTY LADIES SITTING AT TABLE IN RESTAURANT EXAGGERATED SLAP STICK COMEDY 00:48:38 - MS WAITER BRINGS MEAL TO WILLIE HOWARD - TALKS ABOUT DESSERT - FLAME EXPLODES ON TABLE COMIC RESTAURANT SCENE PARODY ON FRENCH LANGUAGE AND FRENCH RESTAURANT CIRCA 1940'S 00:49:09 - WAITERS CARRY OUT MAN WHO DOES NOT PAY FOR HIS MEAL
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1941
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: F-8128