Chool Song, The

The Chool Song SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED! RCM Prods. Prod. Sam Coslow Dir. Reginald LeBorg Man in tux playing piano w/ Bach sheet music; camera zooms out as setting and costumes dissolve into 17th Century / Louis XIV-style. The King’s Men singers in powdered wigs etc. sing ‘The Chool Song’ as Collins & Collette dance; tempo picks up and gives way to boogie as male dancer tears half of woman’s long skirt off. Men start singing ‘how much wood could a wood chuck chuck’, one sniffing from a snuff box. 11:15:04 Two women in Marie Antoinette-type outfits watch from chairs at side of room and join in singing; portrait on wall behind them ‘comes alive’ and women get up to dance. Collins & Collette still jive dancing. Incomplete, abrupt ending. Very bizarre. Tacky / kitsch; Oddities; Royalty; Aristocrats; Upper-class; Lindy Dancing; 1940s;