Koo Koo Korrespondence School

Year Published: 1938

Creator: Official Films

Description:

Official Films. Starring "Jefferson Machamer and his Gags and Gals" w/ Henry Jines, Mary Alice Rice, Carol Bruce, Evelyn Poe. Sleazeball cartoonist with an entourage of lovely ladies and a stereotyped black assistant named "Cloudy" is somehow invited to perform as a screen comedian. Or maybe it was a golden handshake because this is clearly some sort of infomercial for his mail-order art lessons.

Home transfer from 16mm original.

Complete Record: Official Films. Starring "Jefferson Machamer and his Gags and Gals" w/ Henry Jines, Mary Alice Rice, Carol Bruce, Evelyn Poe. Sleazeball cartoonist with an entourage of lovely ladies and a stereotyped black assistant named "Cloudy" is somehow invited to perform as a screen comedian. Or maybe it was a golden handshake because this is clearly some sort of infomercial for his mail-order art lessons. Home transfer from 16mm original.

Transcription

[Music] how's it going do i look pretty i don't know something's gone wrong with my drawing come over and take a look at it and tell me what's cuckoo are my nostrils that big i don't hear that well i like that touch but there is something wrong with it that appeal you usually give me is definitely missing i must do something about my work only the other day i was drawing a pretty girl cigarette advertisement and i put a fire engine in her mouth instead of a cigarette but that's the way some girls look nowadays why don't you start all over again be a beginner take lessons through the mail and nobody would know anything about it see that's a very silly idea and i fall for every silly idea cloudy yes sir mark jefferson phone the cuckoo correspondents school and enroll me for their course in comic art right away yes sir much jefferson and i want to complete the whole course in just a few minutes tell them to mail the lessons right away and i'll go down to the post office and begin studying immediately yes sir looks like i talked myself out of a job yes you can go get yourself fat for a while you the student of the cuckoo correspondence school march jefferson and your first legends are at the post office fine cloudy move my easel and stuff to the post office arrange them in the lobby and i'll study right there save time yes sir moss jefferson gee i don't look much like a corresponding school student i'd better change my appearance a little say it's a good thing i saved that old high school graduation suit of mine how those malls have grown but mr postmaster he's only going to use the lobby for a while he's going to start and finish the whole cuckoo corresponding school coast in just a few minutes but this is most unusual by the time marc jefferson finishes with the lava you will discover you have saved a mouthful of understatement general delivery sir that's your service see any mail for me general how do you spell it see well it used to be homer capital h-o-m-e-r great poets then we moved to holland and it became hamer capital h-a-m-e-r but the wooden shoes hurt our feet so we went to scotland where it became mack hamer capital m-a-c capital h-a-m-e-r then after 300 years we got our golf handicap down to 35 caught the mayflower to america and dropped the capital h making it capital m-a-c-h-a-m-e-r and now we can't pronounce it oh mackamer i think we have a little mail for you see [Music] two cents to do on it see oh this pocket is so tight i'll have to pay you some other time cloudy yes sir mark jefferson go through this and find my first lesson i'd like to look at some mailboxes right away sir my name's elsie my name's jeff five east minute street that's 60 seconds follow me jim like a sleuthing this is one of our most popular mailboxes air conditioned the year round rests for 100 a month sorry that's too small i wear a 30x30 living room i'm sure you like that one it was leased for five years by a man who liked so much he wrote letters to himself me myself and i are all in love with you we all think you'll wonder what we do now me myself and i have just one point of view we're convinced there's no one else like you it can't be denied you brought the sun to you us to one of us so if you pass me by three hearts will break into cause me myself and i are all in love with you [Music] it can't beat an idea you brought the sun to us we'd be satisfied if you belong to one of [Music] us what are you doing in there for the man who has the next mailbox i'm breaking the lease here's your face lesson mark jefferson okay cloudy just pick out a dozen mailboxes all in a bunch nothing fancy so so that's another two moss jefferson details of lesson number two will be found in mailbox number seven cloudy peaking number seven that's somebody number seven showing up lucky i'm lesson number two special delivery from the cuckoo correspondent school at mr mackimer's service here to draw ahead of me she's last night i heard i hold your head just like that and smile just a little that's right [Music] the next artist i was mailed to so i look so dumb that one of these days i will end up in the dead letter office [Music] right [Music] mr mcamer fresh you've made a flirt of me what about the next lesson lessons three and four in mailboxes nine and eleven cloudy open nine and eleven [Music] now draw all of me in an evening gown with a gag [Music] so [Music] okay i look like i'm wearing a crazy quilt yeah a boy crazy quilt well mr postmaster does he get his cuckoo diploma he's got talent all right i'll give him a grade of 100 on his work if he'll agree to give me 10 of all he makes he has one more hard lesson to do though before he gets his diploma what did that lesson serve don't tell him until the commencement exercises i heard everything let's have the commencement exercises at my studio and the party cloudy you hustle up some entertainment and some models so long see at the studio the fall's gonna have a party down to the studio they want y'all to come down [Music] [Music] i'm getting bubbly fed up with maximus equality me too i wish for a change he'd send us all a very formal invitation to stay home i'm even getting tired of posing for him all he does is stare at me and draw [Applause] pictures getting your diploma okay yeah in just a few minutes the commencement exercises begin right away quiet girls we're going to have some entertainment and a party a whole cheese sandwich for you mini mice to nibble up among yours now go sit down [Music] this is your last lesson here are five dots one for each foot each hand and a head now draw a comic with each thing in the right dock now you're on your own [Music] so [Music] so so [Applause] well you finally did it and in behalf of the cuckoo correspondent school and the slopper goddess i take great pleasure presenting you with this you are here with appointed a member of the cuckoo correspondent school football squad football suit in box report immediately per game postmaster finish your speech to cloudy give him the diploma wait a minute you've got to draw a picture of me to prove you're all right again in behind for the cuckoo correspondence school in the slap of goddess right now on this wall i'll bring in the model [Music] model [Music] oh [Music] okay you can go play football now swell never the lettuce butters your diploma boy oh boy i'm an artist now i'm going to open my studio in harlem [Music] here here what's this my officer i'm on the cuckoo correspondent school football squad and i'm waiting to be called into the game good night you


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