The Installment Collector (Fred Allen short, 1929)
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2008
- 25 years prior to appearing on Goodson-Todman game shows, and 5 years prior to the premiere of his long-running radio show, Fred Allen starred in this unremarkable one-reeler most likely shot in the Kaufman-Astoria studios in New York (one wonders if he dropped by the set of The Marx Brothers' Cocoanuts!). The early sound era was full of one-shot comedy shorts provided by virtually every vaudeville entertainer of the day. This is Fred Allen's first on-screen appearance and I wouldn't be surprised if film audiences thought they were seeing Al St. John, as Fred bares a striking resemblance to him.
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![What's My Line? - Fred Allen's final show - Emmett Kelly (Mar 11, 1956) [incomplete]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QcHHtDrGNqQ/mqdefault.jpg)
If you love Fred Allen, find the film, "It's in the Bag". It one of the best comedies ever. Also stars Jack Benny Sidney Toller, Don Amichi, John Carrodine Jerry Cologna and others. It is hillarious.
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Brilliant quote
This is amazing! Fred is fantastic
If you've heard the "King For A Day" episode of Fred Allen's radio show, this is hilarious in light of what he did to Jack Benny in that show!
Man Jack Benny Eddie Cantor and Fred Allen my top three favorite Comedians
Fred was supposed to appear in another "two-reeler" for Warner Bros./Vitaphone in New York that same year, but bowed out at the last minute. George Burns & Gracie Allen replaced him {performing their famous vaudeville routine, "Lambchops"}...and it was THEIR first screen appearance. The only other short Fred appeared in, as far as I know, was 1930's "The Still Alarm" (based on a one-act George S. Kaufman stage play). This is a mid-'30s reissue print [the music sounds "too modern" for '29].
Not a reissue.
The opeing and closing title music is too "modern" for 1929. I believe the original release had no music at all.
Fred seemed to do well on WHAT'S MY LINE because all of the attention wasn't on him until it came his turn. i think he was just as funny on TV with a lot of his witty remarks but because TV is a visual thing, viewers tend to only hear what people on TV are saying instead of listening to what people on TV are saying. A lot of Fred's quips and one-liners and quotes are ahead of their time.
another one...
Imitation is the most sincerest form of television
He also changed some of those medium references around...I recall this one...
Q: You know why they call television a medium?
A: Because it's rare that anything on it's well-done.
I found this one on-line...
"Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do, watch people who can't do anything.".
Do you possibly have the 1930 short Fred made.
To my knowledge, his other film short, "The Still Alarm" hasn't surfaced.
any idea who played the collector? His voice is very familiar.
Jim Aroo,
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