Mail Call
Designed to promote the Government's V-Mail service: recording the efficiency of the micro-filming process as letters are handled, sacked and shipped by plane to the U.S. fighting forces abroad.
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"What I'm reviewing here is a performance of Abbott & Costello doing a radio appearance for the armed forces during World War II. When I first saw this on VHS 30 years ago, it was just introed by an announcer telling of mailed requests of which one of those was of the comedy team performing their classic routine "Who's on First". What I just watched online had Dorothy Lamour introing them before they go through most of the familiar lines but with one big difference: Costello says a word that you couldn't say on mainstream broadcast at the time but that would change ..."
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Includes footage of Abbott and Costello performing "Who's On First?" in front of a live audience of armed forces personnel. This is the only filmed version of the famous routine in which Costello exclaims, "...And I don't give a damn!" Bud replies, "Oh, that's our shortstop."
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Designed to promote the Government's V-Mail service: recording the efficiency of the micro-filming process as letters are handled, sacked and shipped by plane to the U.S. fighting forces abroad.