Watch the Birdie (1950)

Ray Cooke: Movie Projectionist

Quotes 

• Rusty Cammeron : Here's the film.

  [hands the box of chocolates to the projectionist by mistake] 

  Movie Projectionist : Okay, thanks.

  Rusty Cammeron : Oh Miss Corlane -

  [hands the film to the projectionist and takes the box of chocolates to Miss Corlane] 

  Rusty Cammeron : Oh, pardon me. Miss Corlane, I happen to have a box of candy for you.

  Lucia Corlane : Oh, thank you very much.

  [Rusty stumbles over the ottoman] 

  Lucia Corlane , Miss Lucky Vista : Oh!

  Miss Lucky Vista : Is he all right?

  Lucia Corlane : Are you hurt?

  Rusty Cammeron : No, I'm okay; that's a silly place to put furniture, I'm sorry.

• Mrs. Shanway : [from the film]  It is my privilege to turn the first spadeful of earth

  [the video portion of the film abruptly changes from Mrs. Shanway to a turkey with Mrs. Shanway's voice due to a film error] 

  Mrs. Shanway : of the second unit of Lucky Vista...

  Mrs. Shanway : Why, that's my speech! That horrible turkey is making my speech!

  Rusty Cammeron : Well, Mrs. Shanway, it's not the film's fault, it's- it's that projector.

  Movie Projectionist : Nothing wrong with my projector!

  Rusty Cammeron : Why, there must be, we didn't shoot anything like...

  Mrs. Shanway : [the film continues]  In honored memory of that estimable, that foresighted, that public spirited industrialist, the late lamented Cornelius -

  [the audio switches to a turkey gobbling] 

  Mrs. Shanway : [Miss Lucky Vista quietly laughs to herself]  Oh! That's the most humiliating thing I've ever seen! You stop this picture at once!

  Mr. Hugh Shanway : Me? I didn't have anything to do with it!