Notes on the Popular Arts (1978) - full transcript
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
[WORKERS MURMURING]
[TELEPHONE RINGING]
[TEXT CLACKING]
[SHARPENER GRINDING]
[MAN GRUNTS]
[DIAL SNAPS]
[CORD WHIZZING]
[STAPLER CRUNCHING]
[TELEPHONE RINGS]
[MAN SIGHS]
REPORTER: It's noon in New York
and time for Channel 11 News.
The City Sanitation Workers have rejected
the final..
[TV BUZZES]
- COWBOY: Haw!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[COWBOY WHISTLING]
- [TV BUZZES]
- [ADVENTUROUS MUSIC]
- [GUN BANGING]
- [BULLETS RICOCHETING]
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[HORN BLARING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[MAN SCREAMING]
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
[MAN HOWLING]
[ETHEREAL MUSIC]
[GENTLE MUSIC]
[TEXT CLACKING]
♪ I stood in the doorway ♪
♪ In my white nightgown ♪
♪ Red roses on linen ♪
♪ I stood three feet from the ground ♪
♪ The child's imagination ♪
♪ Carried me along ♪
♪ And saw me Waugh my song ♪
♪ See, I've just gotten older ♪
♪ I've just gotten taller ♪
♪ And the little ones
they call me a grownup ♪
[LIVELY MUSIC]
♪ I'm walking in shadows, I cannot see ♪
♪ Faces, they smile when I fall or flee ♪
♪ Doors without windows
all shuttered tight ♪
♪ Again ♪
♪ I just might pass this way again ♪
♪ I just might pass this way again ♪
♪ I just might pass this way ♪
♪ I just might pass this way again ♪
[WIND WHISTLING]
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪ I have seen the sun ♪
♪ That's behind the rain ♪
♪ I have felt the joy ♪
♪ That's behind the pain ♪
♪ And I have found a smile ♪
♪ In the midst of tears ♪
♪ And I can find a head ♪
♪ In the midst of fear ♪
♪ Short stories ♪
♪ That's what we live ♪
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪ My father always promised us ♪
♪ That we would live in France ♪
♪ We'd go boating on the Seine ♪
♪ And I would learn to dance ♪
♪ We lived in Ohio then ♪
♪ He worked in the mines ♪
♪ On his dreams like boats ♪
♪ We knew we'd sail in time ♪
- [DISSONANT VIOLIN MUSIC]
- [METRONOME TICKING]
[TEXT CLACKING]
Perhaps he should take up boxing.
Or some other sport where
he can hurt his hands.
[DRAMATIC VIOLIN MUSIC]
[INSPIRING MUSIC]
[LIGHTNING CRASHES]
Why, what's taking him so long?
- Cut it out.
- Well, at this rate
- we'll all wind up-
- [NOSE HONKS]
Uh, hurry it up.
Just one more turn,
- 49 left, 15--
- [VIOLIN SCREECHING]
Ooh, jeez, that is killing me.
It's the C sharp that's doing it.
[STONES CRACKING]
[STONES SHATTERING]
[LIGHTNING CRASHES]
[DISCORDANT VIOLIN MUSIC]
ANNOUNCER: It's Super Fiddle,
playing to foil the forces of evil.
Super Fiddle, implacable
foe of crime and bad stuff.
Upholder of decency, and
the American way of life.
[TELEPHONE RINGING]
RECEPTIONIST: Doctor's office,
yes Mrs. Knope.
Excuse me, but I've been
waiting for over an hour.
- I'll tell him you called.
- Just a moment.
RECEPTIONIST: He'll call you
just as soon as he's free.
Hi Mr. Church, go right in.
- [DOOR BANGS]
- [TELEPHONE RINGS]
RECEPTIONIST: Doctor's office.
[PHONE RINGING]
Um, uh, he just got here, and
you put him in ahead of me.
Well, he has to go back to his office.
He's a very busy man.
- And very important too.
- Very.
[CLOCK TICKING]
[TEXT CLACKING]
[HARP STRUMMING]
[DOOR WHOOSHES]
Thank God you're here.
[UPLIFTING MUSIC]
No time for platitudes.
Where's the patient?
[WATER DRIBBLING]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
DOCTOR: Sponge
Retractor.
[HEART MONITOR DRONES]
NURSE: Ventricular fibrillation.
[CROWD MOANS]
MAN: There he goes, cardiac arrest.
DOCTOR: Auricular clamp.
[BONES CRACKLING]
[CROWD GASPS]
MAN: That was really amazing.
MAN: He's coming back.
- Did you the way she-
- Totally amazing.
Close, doctor.
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
The Prime Minister will live.
- [CROWD APPLAUDING]
- There will be no revolution.
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
- If the court pleases.
- [DOOR BANGS]
To prevent a gross miscarriage of justice,
I submit that this pathetic
wretch could not be the killer.
Because the cigar ash on the murder weapon
indicates that the
murderer used the same hand
to hold the cigar, and the revolver.
And why did he hold both in one hand?
Because he needed the other
to hold onto his cane.
[CROWD MURMURING]
[GAVEL BANGING]
I put it to you, gentlemen of the jury,
that your killer is a man with a limp.
And that he is in this very courtroom.
[CROWD APPLAUDING]
- [INSPIRING MUSIC]
- ♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
[UPLIFTING MUSIC]
You're wonderful.
You can do everything.
Just about.
Could you, could you get
me in to see the doctor?
There are some things even I can't do.
Oh.
- [CROWD SCREAMING]
- [FLAMBOYANT MUSIC]
[TEXT CLACKING]
Nightville fans, what a night.
Some of the greats, near greats,
and ingrates of Hollywood
are here tonight.
There hasn't been such excitement
at a movie premiere since
"Casablanca."
- I love that movie-
- Ooh!
REPORTER: And I love you, too.
I know him, he was with
Edward G. Robinson.
REPORTER: Very, very thrilling.
You know, I don't use
the word thrilling often,
but when I use it, I mean it,
and I mean it tonight.
Let's get seats in those karate movies.
Ha, ooh!
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- Oh look, there's Brad.
Brad, who tonight will be inducted
to the Hollywood Hall of Fame.
You know. you're Hollywood's
favorite leading man, Brad.
How's the wife, how's the
kids, how's everything?
- Ha, ha, ha, great Brad!
- Brad, over here!
You, I don't have you yet!
You're about to join other
movie, Brad, right over here,
you're about to join other movie immortals
by placing your footprints
right over here.
[CROWD CHEERING]
When you're ready, you
go in the history books.
That's wonderful, truly wonderful!
There are so many stars
here tonight, folks,
I don't know where to begin.
Artie!
Right over there, there's
Flap, the tap dancing flamingo!
Look at him flutter!
BRAD: Artie, Artie!
REPORTER: Who said there's
no glamor left in Hollywood?
BRAD: Artie!
REPORTER: Because there is glamor
- here tonight.
- [BRAD SLURPS]
And I love each and every one of you!
[CEMENT GURGLES]
Let's go inside. what a night!
- [CEMENT GURGLES]
- What a night!
[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC]
- Whoopsie!
- Sorry!
[EERIE CHORAL MUSIC]
[BOMBASTIC MUSIC]
[CROWD CHEERING]
- Beautiful.
- Really uncounted.
I was so choked up,
- I can't talk.
- [EXUBERANT MUSIC]
Decline of the west,
that's what it was my dear,
just decline of the west.
- I'm Bruce Vin Dee.
- [CROWD CHARTERING]
I doubt it had as many as--
It'll hit the 18 and 24 as hard.
You're support for Saturation Company
- breaks the drive-in.
- Yeah.
I mean, an.
So poignant.
- Yeah.
- So wise.
The quest was positive.
- Yes.
- Seems rather character.
Well it was positive, and then festivals.
MAN: That picture really spoke to me.
WOMAN: What are you saying, dummy?
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
[PAPER WHIZZING]
[TYPEWRITER GRINDING]
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
[SUSPENSEFUL GUITAR MUSIC]
[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
[LIVELY GUITAR MUSIC]
[GENTLE GUITAR MUSIC]
[UPLIFTING MUSIC]
[GUNS BANGING]
[CHICKEN CLUCKING]
[MAN COUGHING]
[INSPIRING MUSIC]
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪ Toot, toodle-oo, toot, toot, ♪
♪ Toot, toot, Tootsie, goodbye ♪
♪ Toot, toot, Tootsie, don't cry ♪
♪ The choo choo train that takes me ♪
♪ Away from you, no words can
tell how it makes me sad ♪
♪ Toot, toot, Tootsie, goodbye ♪
♪ Tootsie, goodbye ♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
[WORKERS MURMURING]
[TELEPHONE RINGING]
[TEXT CLACKING]
[SHARPENER GRINDING]
[MAN GRUNTS]
[DIAL SNAPS]
[CORD WHIZZING]
[STAPLER CRUNCHING]
[TELEPHONE RINGS]
[MAN SIGHS]
REPORTER: It's noon in New York
and time for Channel 11 News.
The City Sanitation Workers have rejected
the final..
[TV BUZZES]
- COWBOY: Haw!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[COWBOY WHISTLING]
- [TV BUZZES]
- [ADVENTUROUS MUSIC]
- [GUN BANGING]
- [BULLETS RICOCHETING]
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[HORN BLARING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[MAN SCREAMING]
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
[MAN HOWLING]
[ETHEREAL MUSIC]
[GENTLE MUSIC]
[TEXT CLACKING]
♪ I stood in the doorway ♪
♪ In my white nightgown ♪
♪ Red roses on linen ♪
♪ I stood three feet from the ground ♪
♪ The child's imagination ♪
♪ Carried me along ♪
♪ And saw me Waugh my song ♪
♪ See, I've just gotten older ♪
♪ I've just gotten taller ♪
♪ And the little ones
they call me a grownup ♪
[LIVELY MUSIC]
♪ I'm walking in shadows, I cannot see ♪
♪ Faces, they smile when I fall or flee ♪
♪ Doors without windows
all shuttered tight ♪
♪ Again ♪
♪ I just might pass this way again ♪
♪ I just might pass this way again ♪
♪ I just might pass this way ♪
♪ I just might pass this way again ♪
[WIND WHISTLING]
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪ I have seen the sun ♪
♪ That's behind the rain ♪
♪ I have felt the joy ♪
♪ That's behind the pain ♪
♪ And I have found a smile ♪
♪ In the midst of tears ♪
♪ And I can find a head ♪
♪ In the midst of fear ♪
♪ Short stories ♪
♪ That's what we live ♪
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪ My father always promised us ♪
♪ That we would live in France ♪
♪ We'd go boating on the Seine ♪
♪ And I would learn to dance ♪
♪ We lived in Ohio then ♪
♪ He worked in the mines ♪
♪ On his dreams like boats ♪
♪ We knew we'd sail in time ♪
- [DISSONANT VIOLIN MUSIC]
- [METRONOME TICKING]
[TEXT CLACKING]
Perhaps he should take up boxing.
Or some other sport where
he can hurt his hands.
[DRAMATIC VIOLIN MUSIC]
[INSPIRING MUSIC]
[LIGHTNING CRASHES]
Why, what's taking him so long?
- Cut it out.
- Well, at this rate
- we'll all wind up-
- [NOSE HONKS]
Uh, hurry it up.
Just one more turn,
- 49 left, 15--
- [VIOLIN SCREECHING]
Ooh, jeez, that is killing me.
It's the C sharp that's doing it.
[STONES CRACKING]
[STONES SHATTERING]
[LIGHTNING CRASHES]
[DISCORDANT VIOLIN MUSIC]
ANNOUNCER: It's Super Fiddle,
playing to foil the forces of evil.
Super Fiddle, implacable
foe of crime and bad stuff.
Upholder of decency, and
the American way of life.
[TELEPHONE RINGING]
RECEPTIONIST: Doctor's office,
yes Mrs. Knope.
Excuse me, but I've been
waiting for over an hour.
- I'll tell him you called.
- Just a moment.
RECEPTIONIST: He'll call you
just as soon as he's free.
Hi Mr. Church, go right in.
- [DOOR BANGS]
- [TELEPHONE RINGS]
RECEPTIONIST: Doctor's office.
[PHONE RINGING]
Um, uh, he just got here, and
you put him in ahead of me.
Well, he has to go back to his office.
He's a very busy man.
- And very important too.
- Very.
[CLOCK TICKING]
[TEXT CLACKING]
[HARP STRUMMING]
[DOOR WHOOSHES]
Thank God you're here.
[UPLIFTING MUSIC]
No time for platitudes.
Where's the patient?
[WATER DRIBBLING]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
DOCTOR: Sponge
Retractor.
[HEART MONITOR DRONES]
NURSE: Ventricular fibrillation.
[CROWD MOANS]
MAN: There he goes, cardiac arrest.
DOCTOR: Auricular clamp.
[BONES CRACKLING]
[CROWD GASPS]
MAN: That was really amazing.
MAN: He's coming back.
- Did you the way she-
- Totally amazing.
Close, doctor.
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
The Prime Minister will live.
- [CROWD APPLAUDING]
- There will be no revolution.
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
- If the court pleases.
- [DOOR BANGS]
To prevent a gross miscarriage of justice,
I submit that this pathetic
wretch could not be the killer.
Because the cigar ash on the murder weapon
indicates that the
murderer used the same hand
to hold the cigar, and the revolver.
And why did he hold both in one hand?
Because he needed the other
to hold onto his cane.
[CROWD MURMURING]
[GAVEL BANGING]
I put it to you, gentlemen of the jury,
that your killer is a man with a limp.
And that he is in this very courtroom.
[CROWD APPLAUDING]
- [INSPIRING MUSIC]
- ♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪
[UPLIFTING MUSIC]
You're wonderful.
You can do everything.
Just about.
Could you, could you get
me in to see the doctor?
There are some things even I can't do.
Oh.
- [CROWD SCREAMING]
- [FLAMBOYANT MUSIC]
[TEXT CLACKING]
Nightville fans, what a night.
Some of the greats, near greats,
and ingrates of Hollywood
are here tonight.
There hasn't been such excitement
at a movie premiere since
"Casablanca."
- I love that movie-
- Ooh!
REPORTER: And I love you, too.
I know him, he was with
Edward G. Robinson.
REPORTER: Very, very thrilling.
You know, I don't use
the word thrilling often,
but when I use it, I mean it,
and I mean it tonight.
Let's get seats in those karate movies.
Ha, ooh!
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- Oh look, there's Brad.
Brad, who tonight will be inducted
to the Hollywood Hall of Fame.
You know. you're Hollywood's
favorite leading man, Brad.
How's the wife, how's the
kids, how's everything?
- Ha, ha, ha, great Brad!
- Brad, over here!
You, I don't have you yet!
You're about to join other
movie, Brad, right over here,
you're about to join other movie immortals
by placing your footprints
right over here.
[CROWD CHEERING]
When you're ready, you
go in the history books.
That's wonderful, truly wonderful!
There are so many stars
here tonight, folks,
I don't know where to begin.
Artie!
Right over there, there's
Flap, the tap dancing flamingo!
Look at him flutter!
BRAD: Artie, Artie!
REPORTER: Who said there's
no glamor left in Hollywood?
BRAD: Artie!
REPORTER: Because there is glamor
- here tonight.
- [BRAD SLURPS]
And I love each and every one of you!
[CEMENT GURGLES]
Let's go inside. what a night!
- [CEMENT GURGLES]
- What a night!
[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC]
- Whoopsie!
- Sorry!
[EERIE CHORAL MUSIC]
[BOMBASTIC MUSIC]
[CROWD CHEERING]
- Beautiful.
- Really uncounted.
I was so choked up,
- I can't talk.
- [EXUBERANT MUSIC]
Decline of the west,
that's what it was my dear,
just decline of the west.
- I'm Bruce Vin Dee.
- [CROWD CHARTERING]
I doubt it had as many as--
It'll hit the 18 and 24 as hard.
You're support for Saturation Company
- breaks the drive-in.
- Yeah.
I mean, an.
So poignant.
- Yeah.
- So wise.
The quest was positive.
- Yes.
- Seems rather character.
Well it was positive, and then festivals.
MAN: That picture really spoke to me.
WOMAN: What are you saying, dummy?
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
[PAPER WHIZZING]
[TYPEWRITER GRINDING]
[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
[SUSPENSEFUL GUITAR MUSIC]
[CHICKENS CLUCKING]
[LIVELY GUITAR MUSIC]
[GENTLE GUITAR MUSIC]
[UPLIFTING MUSIC]
[GUNS BANGING]
[CHICKEN CLUCKING]
[MAN COUGHING]
[INSPIRING MUSIC]
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪ Toot, toodle-oo, toot, toot, ♪
♪ Toot, toot, Tootsie, goodbye ♪
♪ Toot, toot, Tootsie, don't cry ♪
♪ The choo choo train that takes me ♪
♪ Away from you, no words can
tell how it makes me sad ♪
♪ Toot, toot, Tootsie, goodbye ♪
♪ Tootsie, goodbye ♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]