Gags and Gals (1936)
1936 · Ephemeral film · 8 min · dir. Al Christie
- Comedy
Synopsis
The first of the series of shorts, featuring magazine-and advertising illustrator and syndicated cartoonist Jefferson Machamer, produced by Educational Pictures, for 20th Century Fox distribution, as Educational Pictures did not operate exchanges of their own. The title for this initial entry was taken from his longest-running strip, "Gags and Gals" of the several he did. This one featured, as did the others in the series, various NYC models and actresses posing in bathing suits, and various…
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Al Christie
- Studio
- Educational Pictures
- Released
- 1936-09-11
- Running time
- 8 minutes
Cast & crew
Al Christie Director- Jefferson Machamer
- Prudence Hayes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · What more do you want?? · Spuzz · 2003-09-14
I've seen these group of soundies before, and these are an EXCELLENT example of what what people love and hate about them: 1) Male Order is probably one of the most sexist soundies ever made as we see a man "ordering" 5 women to a co-worker. (They arrive in boxes). Their head and legs pop out and do a little dance which is surely a new low in female objectivity. He soon removes all the boxes though, all the girls are wearing shirts and short shorts. After dancing with all of them, he selects one, and to have all the others sent back, boxes and all. Crazy man! 2) "At Your Service" takes place…
★★★★★ · Apalling and Lots of Fun · Christine Hennig · 2003-12-11
This exercise in female objectification is actually a lot of fun. There are three soundies here. The first, ÃÂÃÂMale Order,ÃÂÃÂ features women a guy can purchase on approval, who arrive in shipping cartons and dance in his living room. The second, ÃÂÃÂAt Your Service,ÃÂÃÂ is all about how women, specifically carhops at drive-ins, live to serve men, even to the point of wearing skimpy uniforms and dancing on car hoods so that the male customers can look up their dresses. The third soundie, ÃÂÃÂPlaymates,ÃÂÃÂ features grown women dressed up and acting like little girls, while singing the…
★★★★★ · Hot-cha-cha! · trafalgar · 2004-03-14
Great tunes & 1940's babes in highly absurd situations. Sexy/sexist fun that will get your foot tapping, and arouse your prurient interest. Puts the average music video of today to shame. Highly recommended for everyone but the most hard-core feminists, and even they would have to stifle a chuckle or two...
★★★★★ · Fabulous! · Robin_1990 · 2008-02-05
The 1st short is forgettable, But the 2nd and 3rd are fabulous! Great music, Typical of the time. Recommend to anyone who loves oldies music.
★★★★★ · Legs legs legs! · JayKay49 · 2012-01-06
There are some awful big buildings in the background of what was supposed to be an Oshkosh scene. Or did he pack em up and drive to a hotel in Chicago to open up his purchase? I would give anything to show this clip to my "today" liberted testiculated female friends - especially the lawyer girl. Bet I could cause at least one stroke. So so good! 10 staars!
★★★★★ · interesting. · filmbuff63 · 2012-04-28
There was a series of musical 2 reelers (about 20 minutes each) "Jefferson Machamers' Gags and Girls" I have only seen one of them in its entirety, but it was quite entertaining, It involved an artist who drew pictures of what was to appear on the screen, as well as some music in the same style as these films. anyway 5 stars for all
