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Berth Quakes

Reel Number: 220381-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1938

Country: USA

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TC Begins: 10:35:19

TC Ends: 10:50:58

Duration: 00:15:39

Berth Quakes RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Dir. by Jean Yarbrough w/ Leon Errol & Benny Bartlett; Vivian Oakland; Joe Dougherty; Landers Stevens; 10:35:32 CU Earl intercut w/ credits. 10:35:55 CU Book cover: Psychology of the Modern Child Errol’s Best Book To Date w/ pix of Errol. CU door D’Arcy & Co. Publishers. Errol in formal dress getting check. Talks about how much he knows w/o any kids. Errol getting married this afternoon. 10:37:13 Carries bride over threshold, but can’t; she carries him. Kiss on cheek. Moving into her house; Errol pratfall on roller-skate; finds out he now has stepson, home from military school. Boy slides down stair rail & knocks Earl down; says he’s going on honeymoon w/ them. Boy squirts Errol w/ squirt gun. 10:40:00 Night runby; son on train w/ parents argue over bedtime. Puts him into upper berth; helps him get clothes off & then ducks out; fighting & others get upset by noise. Tries to undress him; Errol falls into berth across aisle. 10:43:33 Porter removes ladder. Errol in berth w/ boy arguing. Try counting sheep, boy stays awake. Pet frog w/ him, leaps out of box. Errol goes for water; dumps on lower berth. Arguing, conductor, kisses wife goodnight & tries again. Woman recognizes him as author; asks him question about raising her boy. Man offers to trade compartment for berth w/ woman & boy so as to get some sleep. 10:49:44 Errol trips over boy playing w/ frog on floor. Given his own psychology book by man in berth. Crawls into his berth & gets knocked out. The End. Railroad Pullman Car; Sleeping; Slapstick Comedy; Stupid Talkie; Gags; Oddities; 1930s Hollywood Fiction Film;

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