Friday, March 14, 2008

Vintage Woody clips

The video-vault that is YouTube deserves a weekly perusal. Clips go up, clips go down, and among them are some of the rarest items I've ever seen. I'll be putting up a few today, check them out while they're around.

First is a survey of rare Woody Allen.
Doing one of his best routines on UK TV (known as "The Moose Mingles")


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Woody on the Dean Martin show (no interaction with Dean, just the monologue) doing hip '60s humor

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In an educational short for kids about how baseball gloves are made (don't ask me). Jon Winters has a great physical comedy bit at the beginning that pretty much outshines the laidback Woody.

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and, perhaps the most eye-opening rarity, an interview from the CBC wherein the young Woody discusses his judging of NYC women, the MOMA sculpture garden, his creation of jokes, and how his pool table (what a nice duplex he had on Fifth Avenue!) could be turned into a gag. Very un-p.c. (hey, this is 1967!).


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