Watch the Birdie (1950)
Ray Cooke: Movie Projectionist
Quotes
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Rusty Cammeron : Here's the film.
[hands the box of chocolates to the projectionist by mistake]
Movie Projectionist : Okay, thanks.
Rusty Cammeron : Oh Miss Corlane -
[hands the film to the projectionist and takes the box of chocolates to Miss Corlane]
Rusty Cammeron : Oh, pardon me. Miss Corlane, I happen to have a box of candy for you.
Lucia Corlane : Oh, thank you very much.
[Rusty stumbles over the ottoman]
Lucia Corlane , Miss Lucky Vista : Oh!
Miss Lucky Vista : Is he all right?
Lucia Corlane : Are you hurt?
Rusty Cammeron : No, I'm okay; that's a silly place to put furniture, I'm sorry.
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Mrs. Shanway : [from the film] It is my privilege to turn the first spadeful of earth
[the video portion of the film abruptly changes from Mrs. Shanway to a turkey with Mrs. Shanway's voice due to a film error]
Mrs. Shanway : of the second unit of Lucky Vista...
Mrs. Shanway : Why, that's my speech! That horrible turkey is making my speech!
Rusty Cammeron : Well, Mrs. Shanway, it's not the film's fault, it's- it's that projector.
Movie Projectionist : Nothing wrong with my projector!
Rusty Cammeron : Why, there must be, we didn't shoot anything like...
Mrs. Shanway : [the film continues] In honored memory of that estimable, that foresighted, that public spirited industrialist, the late lamented Cornelius -
[the audio switches to a turkey gobbling]
Mrs. Shanway : [Miss Lucky Vista quietly laughs to herself] Oh! That's the most humiliating thing I've ever seen! You stop this picture at once!
Mr. Hugh Shanway : Me? I didn't have anything to do with it!