Mister Peepers: Episode 41 (9/27/1953)
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Year Published: 1953
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Mister Peepers: Episode 41
Air date: September 27, 1953
Series creator: David Swift. Writers: Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum. Producer-director: Hal Keith. With: Wally Cox (Mr. Peepers), Marion Lorne (Mrs. Gurney), Patricia Benoit (Nancy Remington), Tony Randall (Mr. Weskit), Georgiann Johnson (Marge), Louis Camuti (stranger).
Summary: Wes is anxious to show his friends the motion picture film he and Marge shot on their vacation. In the opening sequence, Robinson finds no place to hang his coat in the men's restroom while he washes his hands, so he hangs it from the light cord, causing the light to go on and off; finally he hangs his coat on his own head. Wes has never shot home movies before, but he is sure his will turn out to be works of genius, comparable to Gone with the wind or Ben Hur. He asks Robinson to borrow the Science Department's projector and screen in order to show them at his home that evening. The two boys Robinson sends to get the screen are fighting with each other by the time they return, so he lectures them on teamwork, using Boulder Dam as an example. That evening, Mrs. Gurney arrives at Wes' apartment wearing 3-D glasses. She does shadow pictures on the screen. Once the film is screened it becomes apparent that Wes has made every mistake of the amateur filmmaker; heads are cut off, the jerky camera makes them all nauseous, he has taken a picture of his shoes, and left the camera running at a picnic, he has taken a shot of a plane so far away no one can make it out, and his picture of the waterfall was taken after the camera had run out of film. The picture of a man no one knows keeps showing up in the film; mysteriously, the same man arrives at their door at 9 p.m. delivering the ice cream they ordered.
From the collection of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
© The Regents of the University of California
Complete Record: Mister Peepers: Episode 41 Air date: September 27, 1953 Series creator: David Swift. Writers: Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum. Producer-director: Hal Keith. With: Wally Cox (Mr. Peepers), Marion Lorne (Mrs. Gurney), Patricia Benoit (Nancy Remington), Tony Randall (Mr. Weskit), Georgiann Johnson (Marge), Louis Camuti (stranger). Summary: Wes is anxious to show his friends the motion picture film he and Marge shot on their vacation. In the opening sequence, Robinson finds no place to hang his coat in the men's restroom while he washes his hands, so he hangs it from the light cord, causing the light to go on and off; finally he hangs his coat on his own head. Wes has never shot home movies before, but he is sure his will turn out to be works of genius, comparable to Gone with the wind or Ben Hur. He asks Robinson to borrow the Science Department's projector and screen in order to show them at his home that evening. The two boys Robinson sends to get the screen are fighting with each other by the time they return, so he lectures them on teamwork, using Boulder Dam as an example. That evening, Mrs. Gurney arrives at Wes' apartment wearing 3-D glasses. She does shadow pictures on the screen. Once the film is screened it becomes apparent that Wes has made every mistake of the amateur filmmaker; heads are cut off, the jerky camera makes them all nauseous, he has taken a picture of his shoes, and left the camera running at a picnic, he has taken a shot of a plane so far away no one can make it out, and his picture of the waterfall was taken after the camera had run out of film. The picture of a man no one knows keeps showing up in the film; mysteriously, the same man arrives at their door at 9 p.m. delivering the ice cream they ordered. From the collection of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. © The Regents of the University of California
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[Theme music] [Announcer Rex Marshall] Reynolds aluminum! The strong lightweight rust proof metal, that does more jobs better, presents, [Marshall] "Mr. Peepers!" [Theme music] [Marshall, over music] Starring Wally Cox. [Theme music] [Applause] [Thoughtful music] [Audience laughs] [Music] [Audience laughs] [Music] [Audience laughs] [Music] [Audience laughs] [Music] [Mr. Weskit] Rob, [Footsteps] they're here. [Weskit] I've waited three weeks and they've finally come. They're here. [Weskit] Isn't that wonderful? [Mr. Robinson Peepers] Yes, that's wonderful. What's here? [Weskit] My films. [Weskit] The home movies Marge and I made on our vacation. [Peepers] Oh that's wonderful. [Peepers] Where are they? [Weskit] They're here. [Weskit] Down at the camera store. [Peepers] Oh. [Weskit] They sent me a card. [Weskit] "Dear Mr. Weskit, [Weskit] "Your films are here." [Weskit] Signed, "Schreiber Camera Store. Harry V. Schreiber, President." [Peepers] Mm, hmm. Mm, hmm. [Weskit] Read it. [Peepers] "Your films are here." [Audience laughs] [Weskit] They sent me the card. [Peepers] Mm, hmm. [Weskit] Rob, can I ask you a very big favor? [Peepers] Why certainly. Anything at all. [Weskit] I wonder if you could arrange for me to take the science department's movie projector and screen home tonight. [Peepers] Well, uh, perhaps. You see I'm not sure I can get permission to, [Peepers] to take them off the school premises. But I will ask. [Weskit] Oh, wonderful. [Peepers] Mm, hmm. Ha. [Weskit] I'm dying to see these. [Peepers] Yes, I imagine you are. Heh, heh. [Weskit] Say, would you and Nancy like to come over tonight and see the premiere of my movies? [Peepers] Oh, boy. [Peepers] I shall bring the popcorn. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Just bring yourselves. [Weskit] And don't forget about the projector, huh. [Peepers] No, no. [Weskit] Let's, let's you go ask about it, shall we? [Peepers] All righty. [Weskit] Here's your coat. [Peepers] Uh, huh. [Peepers] Oh, oh, uh, but ah. [Weskit] What's the matter? [Peepers] I forgot to wash my hands. [Weskit] Wash 'em. [Weskit] You know, these are the first movies I ever took. [Peepers] Really. [Weskit] Isn't that amazing? [Peepers] Yeah. [Weskit] I'm dying to see them. [Peepers] Mm, hmm. [Weskit] Do you suppose Mrs Gurney would like to come? [Peepers] Oh, she'd love to. [Weskit] I'll invite her. [Weskit] Yes, I followed the instructions right to the letter. [Peepers] Mm, hmm. [Weskit] These should be perfect. [Peepers] Oh, yes. [Peepers] I had a, [Peepers] a friend back home that took pictures of his son every year on his son's birthday. [Peepers] He took some right next to the birthday cake so you could tell how old he was. [Weskit] Mm, hmm. Clever. [Peepers] He wanted to have pictures of his son growing up. [Peepers] So what they did was. [Peepers] On his first birthday, they put one candle on the birthday cake. [Peepers] And his second birthday, they put two candles on the birthday cake. [Peepers] And his fifth birthday, [Weskit] Yeah, uh, huh, yeah. [Peepers] they have candles on the cake and so on. [Peepers] But after his 28th birthday then they stopped taking pictures. [Weskit] Oh? Why? [Peepers] The house burned down. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Isn't that a shame. [Peepers] Yes. [Peepers] But, he got married after that. [Weskit] Rob, [Peepers] Okay. [Weskit] let's go ask about the projector before we forget about it, shall we? [Music] [Applause] [Marshall] Hi there, this is Rex Marshall, speaking for the Reynolds Metals Company. [Marshall] And this is a model of a new kind of barn. It's called a pole barn and we made it as sort of a cutaway here, [Marshall] so that you can see how it's constructed. [Marshall] It's made of Reynolds Aluminum roofing and siding. [Marshall] And sturdy pressure treated wooden poles which last three to five times longer than untreated lumber. [Marshall] Now I suppose that this pole barn doesn't look nearly as romantic to you and me, [Marshall] as the traditional big red barn that decorates the calendars like this. [Marshall] But, believe me it sure looks a whole lot more practical to the farmer who has to pay for it. Because you see today, a barn like this would cost about ten thousand dollars. And take a month or more to build. But on the other hand, one of these new Reynolds Aluminum pole barns, [Marshall] costs less than half as much, [Marshall] and it can be put up in a matter of a few days. [Marshall] Besides all that, farm experts also say that it's a much better barn. [Marshall] Because, aluminum reflects radiant heat. It keeps livestock cooler and more productive. And also, because aluminum will never rust or decay, this barn never needs to be painted. Well, now, Reynolds has many other pole type farm building plans, all of them designed to increase farm profits. If you'd like more information about them, just write to Reynolds Farm Institute, Louisville, Kentucky. [Music] [Children argue] He told me. He told me. He told me. He told me. Oh yeah! [Peepers] Boys, boys, now. [Peepers] Let's see if we can't try to conduct ourselves in the fashion of human beings instead of wild animals. It wouldn't surprise me at all, if I saw a couple of lions fighting over a movie screen. Or, uh even a couple of nine banded armadillos. [Peepers] But certainly not two civilized human beings. [Boy on left] He's a nine headed camarillo. [Peepers] Nine banded armadillo. [Boy on left] You see, even Mr. Peepers says you're, [Peepers] No, no I didn't say, [Boy on right] You told me to carry this. [Peepers] Yeah, I asked you both to carry it boys and thank you. [Peepers] Thank you, boys. [Peepers] You fellas are going to have to learn to develop, the spirit of teamwork. Do you suppose one man built the Empire State building? or Boulder Dam, or the San Francisco, ah, bridge? Or that adjustable pigeon identification leg band? [Audience laughs] I should say not. Those things take teamwork. The, ah, Boulder Dam is a beautiful example of teamwork. It holds millions and millions of gallons of water. And it generates billions of kilowatts of electrical energy. And it, uh, irrigates the farms and lights the homes of thousands upon thousands of people. It started when, ah, a fellow stood on the shore of a river and said, "Let's put it here." And then the teamwork started. Plans had to be drawn up, and, uh, ditches had to be dug, concrete had to be poured. Lunches had to be packed. [Audience laughs] Oh, yes, the housewives are part of the boulder dam team, too. [Peepers] Now, do you suppose all that could have happened if, if men had been pulling against each other. [Boy on right] I guess not. [Peepers] Well, certainly not. [Peepers] Now, that's what you boys are going to have to learn. [Peepers] A little bit of pulling together. [Peepers] Now, you go on outside and see if you can't make friends, hmm. [Peepers] That's the way. [Music] [Ocean roars] [Audience laughs, over ocean] [Audience laughs] [Weskit] I got 'em. I got 'em. I got 'em. I got 'em. [Weskit] I got the film. [Peepers] Aha. And I got the screen and projector, too. Is this a banner day for us? [Weskit] Oh, I'm dying to see these. [Weskit] They've got to be great. [Peepers] Mm, hmm. [Weskit] Yeah. [Peepers] I certainly hope they are. I've never seen anybody so enthusiastic. [Weskit] They're great. They're great. [Weskit] You saw, "Gone With the Wind," didn't you? [Peepers] Yes. [Weskit] And you must have seen, "Ben Hur." [Peepers] Oh, yes indeed. [Rapping] Oh. What a pity. I've seen them both. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] I borrowed a little from the technique of both of them. [Peepers] Ah. [Rapping] [Weskit] You're familiar with the sweep, the movement of, "Gone With the Wind?" [Peepers] Yes. [Weskit] And the brilliant composition and sustained action of, "Ben Hur?" [Peepers] Mm, hmm. [Rapping] [Weskit] You see, when I took those films, [Weskit] I made my camera a person. [Weskit] When you look at those pictures, [Weskit] It'll be just the same as if they're being seen by a person. [Weskit] Tell you what I mean. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Let's say that you're uh, uh walking down the street. [Peepers] Mm, hmm. [Weskit] I put my camera to my eye, [Weskit] and follow you down the street just as if I were looking at you. [Weskit] You see what I mean? Yes. [Tapping] [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Oh, I'm dying to see them. [Weskit] Why don't we set up the screen and projector and run them real quick, huh? [Peepers] Well, uh, I'd like to very much. But, I have a class here now. [Weskit] Oh. Well, why don't I borrow the screen and projector and run them in the washroom? Well, I understand there's some kind of rule against running 16 millimeter films in the washroom here. [Audience chuckles] [Weskit] Well, why don't we run them real quick. Just real quick. [Peepers] Well, uh, I'd like to but I have a class here Wes. [Weskit] Oh well, oh come on Rob. I've been waiting weeks for these. we'll just take a real little peek, shall we? [Peepers] Look, uh, Wes, I'm just as anxious as you are to see them but I have a class to teach. [Weskit] Two minutes for pete's sake. [Peepers] We can see them tonight. [Weskit] Oh, be a pal, Rob, will you? [Peepers] Now, Wes, [Weskit] Oh, Rob, please! [Peepers] Thank you, Mr. Weskin. [Peepers] Thank you very much. [Weskit] Why thank you, Mr. Peepers. This has been a very challenging discussion, I think. [Peepers] Yes, it had some of the those elements for me. [Weskit] I certainly thought so. [Weskit] Well, I believe I've got to be running along, Mr. Peepers. [Peepers] Well, thank you for stopping by, Mr. Weskit, and stop by again, won't you. [Weskit] I should be delighted to, Mr. Peepers. What are these? Films? I'll take them. [Audience laughs] We'll see them tonight, Mr. Weskit. Good day, class. [Applause, over music] [Marshall] Well, we'll get back to, "Mr. Peepers," to see, uh, Mr. Weskit's super sensational, classical, ha, ha, colossal film production, in just a moment. But, uh, before we do, I'd like to quickly change the subject to the extent of showing you a relatively new and enormously popular type of fence. This is an aluminum, chain link fence. It's strong. Light in weight. Never has to be painted. Because it won't rust, ever. So, it's no wonder that American homes and American industry, are using more and more of these aluminum chain link fences. Made by leading fence manufacturers, using Reynolds Aluminum. And you know, Reynolds also supplies a lot of aluminum for the makers of ranch and farm gates, like this. Would you believe it, that this ten foot gate weighs only thirty odd pounds. Less than half as much as conventional gates of the same size made of wood or steel. And know another thing, it won't rust or warp or splinter ever. And down in Texas, there's a ranch that uses more than three thousand of these gates. They cost less, and they last longer, because they're made of this strong, lightweight rust-proof metal, that does more jobs better, Reynolds Aluminum. [Music] [Weskit] Honey! [Marge Weskit] Yes! [Weskit] Now, I thought I'd put the projector right here, good? [Marge] Correct. [Footsteps] [Weskit] Honey? [Marge] Yes. [Footsteps] [Weskit] Now, it was my idea to put the screen right here opposite of it. Good? [Marge] Good. Honey! [Marge] Yes! Don't come in here now. [Music] [Audience chuckles] [Marge] What time is the ice cream supposed to get here? Oh, well, I asked him to deliver it at nine o'clock. [Door buzzer] That's the door. I'll get it. [Mrs. Gurney] Boo! [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Ah, Mrs. Gurney, come in. [Gurney, giggles] Oh, I'm sorry. Now, did I frighten you? [Gurney] But, you know, I didn't know if your films were 3D or not, you know. so, I, [Weskit] Mrs. Gurney, [Weskit] you couldn't frighten anybody if your life depended on it. You have too much je ne sais quoi. [Gurney] Oh my goodness. I've got to go back on my diet again. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Mrs. Gurney, we love you just as you are. [Gurney] Oh! [Giggles] Precious. [Weskit] Load your balcony seat, Madame. [Gurney] Oh no, ah, the mezzanine. Two can play at that game. [Giggles] [Audience laughs] [Audience laughs] [Gurney] Well, where is everybody? Oh, am I the first? [Gurney] Oh dear, I'm so sorry. Now, I'm not too early. [Weskit] No, no harm. [Gurney] Well, it's a habit of mine you know. I always get to the movies early. [Gurney] Before the prices change. [Giggles] [Audience laughs] [Gurney] Oh, yes, ah. [Marge] Wes, who's here? [Gurney] Uh, Greta Garbo. [Marge] Hi, Mrs. Gurney. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Nice try, Mrs. Gurney. [Gurney giggles] [Weskit] Well, I wonder where Rob is? I want to see my films. [Gurney] Oh, now, now, now. Patience, patience. [Gurney] That's a virtuous, um, um, [stutters] [Gurney] He'll be here. [Marge] Hello! [Gurney] Darling, dear! Yes! [Marge] What a beautiful dress! [Gurney] Oh, you think so? [Giggles] [Gurney] Oh yes, well, no one can tell me what to wear to, um, [Gurney] a world premiere. [Giggles] [Gurney] I sort of have a natural, ah, [Weskit] Je ne sais quoi. [Gurney] No. No. [?] before. [Giggles] [Door buzzer] [Weskit] That's the door. I'll get it. [Footsteps, door opening] [Nancy Remington] Hi! [Weskit] Come on in! [Greetings exchange] [Peepers] Let me see here. [Gurney] Yes, yes. Greta Garbo. [Laughter] [Weskit] All set. Let's go. Let's get started. Ready? [Peepers] Yeah, well it'll take you just a minute to put things up. [Weskit] Well, I'll help you with the screen. [Peepers] Now, I better put it up because I signed up for it. Is that all right? [Weskit] Okay, now I'll tell you what we're going to do. [Weskit] We're going to put the projector right here and the screen here opposite. [Weskit] Can we hurry? Can we hurry? [Weskit] Oh, Nan, you're going to love these. They're just great. [Nancy] Oh, I bet they are. [Marge] I've got an idea. This is going to take hours so why don't you come on in the bedroom and I'll show you some new things I got when I was in Chicago. Okay? [Nancy] Oh, okay! [Nancy] Are you coming, Mrs. Gurney? [Gurney] Ah, yes. Just a minute. [Nancy] All right. [Gurney] Just a minute. [Weskit] Can I set up the projector screen, please. [Peepers] All right, but be very careful, hmm. [Gurney] Oh, ah, [Gurney] Oh I love wheels. [Peepers] Oh, really? [Gurney] Yes. When I was young I had a pony. [Peepers] Mm, hmm. [Audience laughs] [Gurney] Well, look here, I'll just go in and see about Chicago. [Peepers] All right. [Gurney] I mean ah, ah, Marge. [Weskit] I'll give you a hand here, Rob. [Peepers] No, I've got it. Uh, just sit down, Wes. [Weskit] Oh, all right. [Weskit] I'll give you a hand here. [Peepers] Uh, don't you have some window shades to pull down or some, uh, [Peepers] ah, ice cream to get. [Weskit] No, the ice cream is coming at nine o'clock. Now, I'll tell you what you do here. [Peepers] That goes through, [Weskit] Yeah, yeah, well you're doing a darn good job. Okay. [Weskit] Girls! [Claps] [Weskit] Curtain time! [Weskit, sing song voice] Curtain time! [Women chatter excitedly] [Weskit] Okay. The lights. [Marge] Everybody ready? [Nancy] Ready. [Weskit] Roll 'em. [Projector noise] [Gurney] Ah, lovely. [Peepers] Wait until you see the picture. [Gurney] Oh. Oh, look. Look, look here. [Gurney] It's a rabbit. [Women] Oh! That's wonderful! [Audience laughs] [Gurney] Now, wait a minute, now. Now what's this one? Now this one. [Marge] I don't know. What is it? [Gurney] It's a fly. [Marge] Oh, it looks just like the rabbit. [Gurney] Oh, yeah. Well, I'm not a professional, you know. I, [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Now, here come the pictures. [Marge] All right. [Nancy] All right. [Weskit] Here are the pictures. Here are the pictures. [Women ooh and ah] [Gurney] Who's that? [Weskit] Well, it's Marge and me. [Weskit] I had a stranger take our picture and she was obviously an amateur. [Gurney] Yes. [Weskit] Well, wait. The next pictures will be some I made and then you'll see. They'll be good. [Women ooh and ah] [Weskit] Here, here. Now, now, now. [Audience laughs] [Gurney, over laughter] Wait a minute. I, I don't feel very well. [Audience laughs] [Marge] Turn that thing off. That's awful. [Weskit] I can answer you in one word, my dear. Technique. [Weskit] Rob? Oh yeah, movies are better than ever. [Audience laughs] [Marge screams] Oh! Please don't show this one. Please don't. I just feel terrible. [Women laugh] [Weskit] Stop the machine. Stop. Stop. [Weskit] Now. [Weskit] I'll tell you how I made this. [Peepers] How? [Weskit] Marge was standing by the hedge, [Weskit] putting some cream on her face. And I sneaked up behind her when she wasn't looking and took her picture. Oh, I thought it was something like that. [Weskit] Yeah. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Well, this is that technique I was telling you about. The camera as an eye. [Peepers] Yeah, yeah. [Women shriek and laugh] [Women ooh and ah] [Nancy] There she's waving again. [Gurney giggles] Ah, yes. [Weskit] Thank you. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] I was only interested in the tennis racket. [Women] Who's that? [Weskit] I don't know. [Weskit] Did you take this one, Marge? [Marge] I didn't take them, dear. Didn't you? [Weskit] No, I didn't take it. Isn't that funny. [Nancy] What's that? [Weskit] That's grass. [Nancy] Oh. [Gurney] Lovely, lovely, nice. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Those are my shoes. [Women] Those are his shoes! Oh, a dog! [Weskit] This is a dog we met on our vacation. [Women ooh and ah] Very nice! [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Now, the next shot is of me petting the dog. [Women laugh, ooh and ah] [Gurney] Where are you? [Weskit] Stop the machine! [Weskit] Now I'll tell you how I made this. [Weskit] Marge wasn't here to take the shot for me, you see. So, I held the camera up here. [Weskit] And I petted the dog like this. [Weskit] Understand? Oh, that's clever. [Weskit] Yeah. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Now, in the next shot you're going to see. The next one is absolutely, [Weskit] dynamite. [Gurney] Well, yes. [Weskit] I borrowed the idea from that old aviation classic, "Wings." [Weskit] Roll 'em. [Weskit] There! [Nancy] What is it? [Weskit] It's a plane! [Nancy] Where? [Weskit] There! There! [Women] I don't see anything. [Weskit] Stop the machine! [Gurney] No, no, I, I don't, [Weskit] Come here! [Footsteps] [Gurney] I don't see anything [Peepers] Well, it's on your back, Mrs. Gurrney. [Audience laughs] [Gurney, over laughter] Oh, so it is! [Women giggle] [Weskit] Plenty more. Show's not over yet. [Weskit] Roll 'em, old timer. [Weskit] You see it? [Women] Oh, yes! [Weskit] You see it? It's right here. [Audience laughs] [Weskit, over laughter] Well, I guess I don't have to tell you who this is. Well, whoever it is, he's bald. [Giggles] [Audience laughs] [Women laugh, ooh and ah] [Peepers] Wow. [Weskit] Pretty impressive, huh? [Gurney] Oh. [Women laugh] Delinquents. [Audience laughs] [Women chatter] [Marge] Oh, wonderful! [Women chatter, laugh] [Audience laughs] [Marge] Who is he? [Weskit] I don't know. [Weskit] I don't know who he is. Whoever he is, I wish he'd get out of there. [Weskit] Here. [Women ooh and ah] [Weskit] Rob? [Peepers] Technique, huh, Wes. [Clapping] [Gurney, clapping] I love a minuet! [Giggles] [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Oh doggone, I must have left the camera down on the picnic blanket with the machine running. [Weskit] Oh, I wasted all that film. Well, it's not all wasted, Wes. You got a pretty good picture of the Pearly Everlasting there. Isn't that what that is? [Weskit] Who said I couldn't make movies. [Women chatter] Not yet. Oh, look at the dog. Isn't this wonderful. [Women ooh and ah] [Peepers] Excuse me but, ah, [Peepers] I'll tell you what you did wrong there. [Peepers] Uh, see you were too close to the subject. [Peepers] If you had opened up your lens more and, [Peepers] stood back farther from the subject and then, [Peepers] synchronized your body movement and your camera movements with the movement of the subject, you'd have been perfect. [Weskit] She moved. [Peepers] Well, shall I, I roll 'em. [Weskit] On my cue. [Weskit] Roll 'em! [Nancy] Oh. [Gurney] Ha, ha. [Marge] Oh, darn grass. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Oh, now, watch, watch, watch. This is an imitation of George Sanders. [Weskit, lip syncing with film] What do you do with old bones. [Weskit, lip syncing with film] Bury them. [Women giggle] [Weskit] Now. This is better. Watch this. Watch. [Nancy] So, who is it? [Weskit] Charles Laughton. [Women] Oh. [Peepers] Yes. Really. [Women ooh and ah] [Audience laughs] [Marge] Are you sure you don't know him? [Weskit] No, I don't know him. Marge took this. [Marge] Honey, I did not. [Weskit] Well, I didn't take it. [Weskit] Stop the machine. Stop. Stop. Stop the machine. [Weskit] Now. This, [Weskit] is a character study. There was this wonderful local character. He sat in the, uh, railroad station all the time. Wonderful. I made a character study of him. [Weskit] Well, he sat there every day. [Marge] I wonder what happened to him. [Peepers] Maybe he caught the train. [Audience laughs] [Weskit] This beautiful country. [Traffic noise] [Weskit] I made this shot from the car, window of the car while driving. [Gurney] You know, I, I, I really am not very well. I, [Audience laughs] [Weskit] Um, oh I know what this is. I know what this is. [Weskit] You're going to see a beautiful waterfall. [Weskit] As soon as we hit the meadow. Here's the meadow. [Weskit] Now I panned across the meadow. This is what you call a pan shot. And you're gonna see the waterfall. It's on the other side of, [Weskit] the meadow. It's really a magnificent waterfall. [Weskit] Now, in a minute we'll come to some more trees and then we'll go up the trees. [Weskit] And then you'll see the waterfall. It's just on the other side of the trees. [Weskit] Now, here's the big tree. Now, we're gonna go up, up, up. And then you'll see the waterfall. It's, [Weskit] Well, what happened to the waterfall? [Weskit] Well, I know I took pictures of a waterfall. [Weskit] Honey, what did you do with the waterfall? [Audience laughs] [Marge] Well, I guess you just ran out of film, dear. [Gurney] Oh. [Peepers] There's no more film here, Wes. [Weskit] Oh. [Marge] Well. [Clapping] [Gurney] Bravo! Bravo! [Weskit] That's it. [Weskit] Well, I'll, I'll let you in on a secret, then. [Gurney] Yes? [Weskit] You will never believe this in a million years. [Weskit] I have never used a movie camera before. [Women] Oh, no! [Audience laughs] First time. That's right. [Women protest] They could have been an awful lot better. [Women protest] No, no. [Women praise] [Gurney] Yes. [Weskit] What? [Marge] Oh, oh, oh, that must be the ice cream. [Weskit] The ice cream. The ice cream. I'll get it. [Marge] Okay. [Peepers] Wes, you're movies really were swell. [Weskit] Really? [Peepers] Son of a gun. [Weskit] Really? [Weskit] You the man with the ice cream? [Audience laughs] [Music] [Peepers] He seemed like a very nice fella. [Peepers] Do you wanna, [Peepers] Should we, can we have some ice cream now. [Music, audience applause] [Announcer, Helen Lewis] Hello, I'm Helen Lewis. Before "Mr. Peepers," returns this evening, I'd like to tell you about the new time-saving, meat-saving way to cook pot roast, using Reynold's Wrap. The original pure aluminum foil. The details of the recipe are in this week's, installment of, "Life," magazine, in this Reynolds Wrap advertisement. [Lewis] You start with a four or five pound pot roast. [Lewis] Brown under your broiler. Add vegetables. [Lewis] Then wrap airtight in Reynolds Wrap. [Lewis] And wonder of wonders it bastes itself. [Lewis] You just leave it alone, sealed in Reynold's Wrap, in a low oven, 300 degrees, for three hours. It not only bastes itself. It refuses to shrink. Comes out the tenderest, juiciest pot roast you've ever tasted. So get this September 28th issue of, "Life." Follow the recipe. And treat yourself and your family to self-tending pot roast. And incidentally, better get this too. Genuine Reynolds Wrap. The original pure aluminum foil. [Music] [Peepers] It's cold. [Audience laughs] It's ice cream. It's a low temperature dish. Well, it's been another, entertaining evening at Chez Weskit, as Wes calls it here. I'm going to get some home movies myself someday. As soon as I get enough money saved up to get a, ah, a home. [Audience laughs] Meanwhile, I hope you'll, join us again next week when we'll be back with some more adventures of, "Mr. Peepers." That's me. Good night. [Music over applause] [Music] [Applause over music] [Marshall] Oh, say I almost forgot to tell you, to be sure and get the October issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, you can't miss it, there's a real pretty girl here on the cover. But inside there's a swell article by Richard Gaiman about our own Wally Cox's, "Mr. Peepers." A lot of cute pictures. Stories, anecdotes. I know you'll enjoy it. I'm gonna take this one home and read it myself. Be sure and get one, won't you. [Marshall] And be sure and join us again next week to see Wally Cox as, "Mr. Peepers." Brought to you by the Reynolds Metals Company. [Marshall] Pioneers of progress, through aluminum. [Music, applause] [Theme music, NBC tones]
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