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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Oct 30, 2015 6:52:50 GMT
Annette Hanshaw was "It"
This video says "Happy Birthday Elise" at the beginning. Flapper-era singer Annette Hanshaw was definitely "It" rather than Vamp. She was lovable and sweet, just like our Elise!
That's all!
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Post by CampKohler on Nov 3, 2015 22:39:49 GMT
If that big box of a mic is actually being used to pick up her voice for the film, I'll eat my hat. At the very least she would have to put her lips right up to it due to the poor sensitivity of carbon mics in general, much less than the ones of the day. So, it's just a prop.
Now as to the actual facts of the matter, if you will watch this April 6, 2008 video, you will see that your calendar needs adjusting for the shift to standard time (or something):
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 4, 2015 1:54:34 GMT
"It's always somebody's birthday . . ."
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Post by eliseharris on Nov 5, 2015 12:46:27 GMT
Thanks - though my birthday is actually in April (as CampKohler says!) So 6/4 in British but 4/6 in American. Either way, not October!
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 5, 2015 13:35:49 GMT
Happy Guy Fawkes day!
"Happy, happy, happy Guy Fawkes, happy happy happy Guy Fawkes, happy happy happy Guy Fawkes. Happy gunpowder to you . . ."
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Post by eliseharris on Nov 7, 2015 0:02:49 GMT
Thanks! I am a bit scared of fireworks, owing to the grim public information films they used to show when I was a child, so I am quite glad it is now over for another year. They are still selling fireworks though.
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Post by CampKohler on Nov 7, 2015 8:30:44 GMT
So then, your fate worse than death would be to be attached to a fireworks rocket shot high in the sky?
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 12, 2015 15:20:35 GMT
Artist Bev Hancock
Harris's Half Hour
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Post by CampKohler on Nov 13, 2015 8:09:49 GMT
Yes, there is a certain resemblance there. Never heard of Tony Hancock before, though.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 13, 2015 10:05:27 GMT
If you just mute the sound and play both those videos at the same time, the resemblance is rather striking. Hancock was a standup comedian who had his own sitcom series with Sid James, who was in many of the "Carry On" British films, and that sitcom was written by the same writers who wrote Steptoe & Son, which Sanford & Son was based on.
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Post by CampKohler on Nov 14, 2015 5:49:42 GMT
I am sure you meant to say, "...upon which Sanford and Sons was based." ("This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put." --- W. Churchill)
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Nov 14, 2015 6:25:44 GMT
English is not Latin
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