Just Kidding Reel 1

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Guy Morrison

Complete Record: Just Kidding Reel 1: Wild looking kid ("Puddlehead", played by adult) with baseball cap backwards stands in typical 70's kitchen (read: all brown) takes baseball cap off and takes out a crumpled piece of paper with a recipe for making popcorn, goofy Puddlehead starts too take out all the pots and materials needed for making popcorn, finishes reading the directions, folds the paper up and places it back under his baseball cap on top of his head, popcorn starts to "pop" and Puddlehead gets flustered trying to keep the popping corn in the pan, takes recipe out again and reads the back, realizing that he forgot to put a lid on the pan, CU on Puddlehead as he uses a knife to butter each piece of popcorn, soundtrack follows, kids are interviewed by KRON, soundtrack follows, jugglers at school dressed in red, white and blue clothes with British flag pasted behind them, one of the jugglers is dressed in clown face, CU on jugglers doing crazy juggling stunts, goofy man enters the picture and jugglers how him how to juggle, this goofy man has a curling mustache, wears a white rope tied around his waist in lieu of a belt and is wearing baby blue pants and has blond feathered hair, really great shots of young boy juggling, young boy and girl are cutting apart paper towel cores to make a marble racetrack, each piece of the cardboard is molded and taped to create tubes in which the marbles will move, black film follows, shot of kids with completed marble racetrack (which is really ingenious) that is tied to the ceiling and is held up with overturned chairs on top of a folding table, CU on tubing as marbles race down the track, CU on colored marbles in glass at base of racetrack, Puddlehead and other goofy "kid" (Max & Mickey) sit in room, friend of Puddlehead sucks his thumb, Puddlehead and friend talk in front of a television screen, CU on Puddlehead who is supposed to look dopey and does indeed look like he has been doing bong hits in the green room, soundtrack follows