Summary

THE LITTLEST EXPERT ON INTERESTING PEOPLE

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Title: THE LITTLEST EXPERT ON INTERESTING PEOPLE
File Number: HC-2 35mm; Beta SP; NET-327 Beta SP (at 01:19:11:00); DigiBeta
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 1951
Description: B W 1951 The always indecipherable, stammered musings of Charley Hankinson, the precocious chatterbox known affectionately (?) as the Littlest Expert. Features archival footage of various historical celebrities. Poor audio. Directed by Justin Herman. Narrated by Charley Hankinson. . 00:02:22:00 B W 1951 VS CU the Littlest Expert wearing a suit and sitting on a stool on a movie set, spewing forth his opinions of movies in his usual machine gun-style. 00:03:38:00 B W 1910s - 1920s 1910s 1920s: William Jennings Bryan stands on podium in a baseball stadium before large crowd and makes speech. 00:04:13:00 B W 1951 Still photograph of Admiral George Dewey. 00:04:14:00 B W 1951 C. 1898 archival footage of the USS Olympia battleship Admiral George Dewey walking on the deck of the ship. [Spanish-American War]. 00:04:37:00 B W 1910s C. 1910 archival footage of ex-President Teddy Roosevelt visiting the Wright Brothers at airfield: Teddy Roosevelt greeting people from backseat of parked convertible staff car crowd watches as a biplane flies and lands Teddy Roosevelt gets out of biplane after a flight, shakes hands with people in small crowd. 00:05:40:00 B W 1900s Archival footage of an Alberto Santos-Dumont flight, probably the 1906 first-in-Europe flight: VS Dumont boards his airplane and sits at the controls as crowd looks-on the cumbersome-looking airplane (a funny flying attempt, basically) takes off and flies low over the field. 00:06:30:00 B W 1951 CU the Littlest Expert as he talks to CAM unintelligibly about famous people. 00:07:09:00 B W 1940s - 1950s 1940s 1950s: the Duke of Windsor on an official visit deplanes via boarding ramp and is greeted by military officials. 00:07:20:00 B W 1910s 1910s: the Duke of Windsor as a small boy with other Royal Family children wearing sailor suits, he performs a pretend- gun drill and marches. 00:07:51:00 B W 1910s C. 1910: Buffalo Bill Cody and entourage get out of car Buffalo Bill Cody greets several men with a kind of secret handshake or Indian handshake. 00:08:18:00 B W 1910s - 1920s 1910s 1920s: VS Enrico Caruso and friends pose together and smile for CAM on deck of ship. 00:08:47:00 B W 1951 CU the Littlest Expert talks to CAM about Lillian Russell. 00:09:08:00 B W 1910s - 1920s 1910s 1920s: Lillian Russell poses exaggeratedly for CAM in backstage dressing room as her maid opens the door for her. 00:09:25:00 B W 1920s 1920s daredevil stunt: Harry Houdini, wearing a straitjacket, is hoisted into the air upside down by a pully and cable while crowd watches from street, Houdini removes the straitjacket easily and is then lowered to the street. 00:10:45:00 B W 1951 CU the Littlest Expert as he talks to CAM and says goodbye
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