Hollywood bloopers c. 1936

Warner Brothers produced an annual reel of bloopers from the mid 1930s onwards. Look out in this reel for actors including Humphrey Bogart; James Cagney; Bette Davis; and Leslie Howard.

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4 comments to Hollywood bloopers c. 1936

jufjo

March 7, 2010 at 12:56 pm · Reply

Still, even when caught off guard back then people apparently used a whole different kind of swear words.
Less vulgar in my opinion.
Talking of swearing, what were these reels used for?
They couldn’t be broadcast or show to a audience I assume.
gdb

March 15, 2010 at 1:23 am · Reply

Theatrical release of some kind. But still there’s not the same notion of audience in these outtakes; they are not addressing the same kind of people who encounter outtakes on comedy DVDs.
Crypt0qu33n

April 20, 2011 at 4:34 pm · Reply

1936 is after they started enforcing the Hays Code, but in the late 20s and early 30′s there were some topics, violence & nudity that you wouldn’t see in films for another half a century.

And this is one of those films they would show at small gatherings of studio execs and contract players. Not the general public.
Shayalon

August 9, 2011 at 1:04 am · Reply

I find it interesting that they took their mistakes so seriously. Rarely did flubbing a line seem to be a laughing matter. Modern bloopers are funny to watch because the actors seem to take mistakes as part of the process.

I wonder if the cost of celluloid and other considerations made directors particularly angry when they had to cut film due to an error and they took their anger out on the actors, or if the actors were just such perfectionists that even these small flubs made them angry.

I also noted that the women seems to be fond of saying “Oh, Nuts!”, and the men of saying “God Damnit!…but not an f-word or even an sh-word in sight. Should that be attributed to manners or to the fact that the producers of this gag reel wouldn’t glorify such “filth”…hehe. How times have changed.