College Comedy

Year Published: 1945

Complete Record: MS of two college students from the fifties speaking with each other, his hair parted down the middle and wears a beanie. MS of them walking up to two girls who walk away from them, and they mimic them. LS of the two being paddled by a fraternity. MS of the dean catching them. LS of a teacher speaking with the two boys with two other girls. LS of people swing dancing in their vintage clothing. CU of boy talking to girl. MS of one of the boys entering the dance and introducing his girlfriend. LS of them swing dancing together. LS of another guy stepping in and grabbing his girlfriend. LS of the guy breaking free from the fraternity and asking the girl to dance. LS of the girlfriend dancing solo. LS of the boyfriend dancing solo. MS of the boy and girl speaking together and the boy runs out to decide which fraternity to join. LS of the girl rolling dice and being caught by the dean. LS of the boyfriend asking two other girls to take a note to his girlfriend, they refuse and call his girlfriend a man scratcher. LS of the girlfriend in her dorm room smoking tobacco in a pipe, her new roommate enters and calls her a brazen hussy. The girlfriend is the shorter boy from earlier in the picture. They are almost caught trying to sneak out of the dorm room in a MS with them and the girls in the neighboring room. LS of 3 seniors wearing letterman sweaters coming into the room to paddle one of the young men, they paddle him then they try to paddle his roommate but they paddle a violin case instead and they chase the young man, because his roommate is dressed in drag and is trapped in the women’s dorm. LS of the two deans returning and telling the man in drag that a another man was seen on the fire escape and that they are going to stay there and wait for them, nodding in unison. LS of another girl pulling up to the school in a convertible. MS of the new girl entering the room with the guy in drag and the two dean ladies. CU of her introducing herself. LS of the man in drag pulling down the covers and looking at the camera shocked. MS of the boy leaning through the window and telling his partner that they must escape the dorm. LS of them running down the hall. MS of them being caught together in the men’s dorm by the dean, the dean takes the drag queen back to the women’s dorm. MS of drag queen escaping through window and down fire escape. LS of them entering the men’s dorm again with the dean returning and asking where the guy in drag has been all night, he tells him he was hiding under the bed trying to avoid the Senior who would paddle them. The dean tells them to sleep somewhere else and in a LS the boys leave their dorm to duck behind a bench when the Seniors walk by. The Seniors enter the dorm room and paddle the dean himself, and in a LS he chases them out of the room and down the hall.