Nosferatu [Excerpt], Charlie Chaplin - The Property Man, Will Rogers and Bing Crosby

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Complete Record: Opens with excerpt from Nosferatu (1922) with the vampire, Count Orlok, standing in the doorway and looking menacing. He fills the whole doorway with his height, and his shadow with raised claws hovers over the sleeping Hutter. The wind blows in through an open window, and the vampire’s shadow slowly creeps away from the sleeping man. Cut to shot of Orlok rising and turning to leave the room in his very stiff style of walking. The door closes behind him. Sunrise the next day, Hutter wanders about the castle and goes down to a basement. He finds Orlok’s coffin, and there is a cut to a close up of the vampire’s face visible through a splintered hole in the ancient coffin. Hutter casts the lid of the coffin aside to reveal the entirety of the creature’s body, then freaks out and flees from the crypt. Wide shot of the decaying castle. Hutter views Count Orlok stacking coffins onto a horse cart and then getting into the top one. The lid of the coffin supernaturally closes itself and the horse cart leaves through the gate. Hutter despairs as he is trapped in the castle. Men pick up the strange cargo and put in on a large ship. The ship is seen at sea, on its doomed voyage. Excerpts from Charlie Chaplin films: The first clip opens with Chaplin and a young lady hunched down on the grass over a bucket. He scrubs her face clean and then sends her off with the bucket. A man with a canvas and easel looks for inspiration but despairs when he finds none, until the woman walks by and he begins to draw her. She is shy at first, but he insists. Chaplin sets a picnic table while he waits for the girl to return. Charlie Chaplin - The Property Man (1914): Chaplin has a drink while an old bearded man talks to him. Outside, a fancy dressed man and a woman look at a vaudeville sign and enter. The man, an actor, seems very high and mighty and smokes indoors. Chaplin tells him he can’t smoke, then goes on to smoke his own pipe. Chaplin is sent to load the actor’s luggage backstage, but it is too heavy and he runs into the actor with it. Title says “THE END” although there is probably more film not seen here. A train pulls into a station and many people get on and off board. Cut to Will Rogers making a speech in front of audiences, including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Known as The Ambassador of Good Humor. Clips from his speech to FDR, joking about him in a good-natured way. Cuts to Bing Crosby singing “Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear” on a stage with musicians behind him.