| Telephone Exchange (Joan Miller) | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 59 |
| Catalog #: | 312645 | |
| Clip Number: | 312645-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NSP 56 | |
| Timecode: | 10:01:01 - 10:04:34 | |
| Location: | United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1937 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | COMMUNICATIONS: Telephone ENTERTAINMENT: Comedy LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA OCCUPATIONS: Women | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 507656 Comedy bit with Joan Miller, "famous television telephone girl." Seated at the switchboard and running through her routine--a la Lily Tomlin's "Ernestine"-- about her date the previous night, she expresses a great range of facial expressions American Television Telephone girl (telephone operator). M/S of two women sat at a switchboard, one is busy working while Joan is playing with her chewing gum, she pulls it out and sticks it on the board. C/U of Joan, she answers a call, then turns to the camera as if it was her friend and tells about a man she met last night, she is just going to tell us what he said to her when she is interrupted by a call from one of the guests, complaining about the milk, Joan says itís the best there is and comes from contented cows. Various shots as she tells us about the man she met in-between answering calls including several young men for a Miss Don. Eventually the man she met last night rings up for Miss Don and she gives him a mouthful. She starts chewing her gum again and finishes with the line ìwell wouldnít that put castors on your grandmothers crutches!î | |
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