| ARE YOU A LIP READER Comedian Con Ingham tells a silent joke - the audience have to try and lip read. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6788 |
| Catalog #: | 444544 | |
| Clip Number: | 444544-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 272 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1933 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT: Unusual | |
| Description: | ARE YOU A LIP READER? Comedian Con Ingham "speaks" with exaggerated lip movements and facial expressions, and encourages the viewer to guess what he is saying. United Kingdom "Papers today are fond of testing your knowledge. Here's something they haven't tried yet - lip-reading! First meet Con Ingham, who speaks but says nothing!" CU Ingham rises in front of camera; he wears wing collar, bow tie, boater hat and looks like your basic silly twit of yesteryear. He starts in mouthing the words. C/U of comedian wearing a suit and a boater hat. He speaks to the camera, moving his mouth exaggeratedly which makes it quite easy to see what he is saying by means of lip reading. "Hello everybody. How are you all?" He puts his hand to his ear and mouths the word "What?" Then "Oh, that's fine. So am I. How are all the folks at home? What? NO! Fancy that! That's awful!' Intertitle reads: "Did you see what he said? Yes? Well, follow him again - " He mouths the words: "I am going to ask you something now. Are you? Yes I am." Intertitle reads: "Ready? Here's the joke - it's about a Scotsman. (The Manager knows it!)" Closer shot of Con. He says: "Have you heard the story about the Scotsman." He looks off to the side and says: "That's right" as if talking to someone in the audience who has called out. "Who gave the zoo five pounds? Have you? No? Neither have I!" He smiles as if this is a very funny joke! Intertitle reads: "Same joke, as Con Ingham heard it from a lady." Con does an impersonation of a gossipy woman telling the joke with lots of "So I said to him and he said to me" type ad-libbing. He laughs at his own telling of the joke. Entertainment, comedy, comedian, comic, lip-reading, lip reading, silent, jokes, silly, communication, speech | |
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