The Golf Specialist 1

[WSenator1]

Fields, thankfully, got rid of that awful fake mustache after this film, I believe. It's obvious he didn't like females - no matter what age!

[WSenator1]

Damn!  What a slut!

[ElasticGiraffe]

"I've never struck a woman in my life... not even my own mother."

Hahahaha. :P

[westoak1106]

"There ain't no heel like you gonna put NOTHING over on me without getting a knuckle massage!" Someone please tell me that guy's name. I remember seeing him in one of the Thin Man movies. Whomever he was he had timing and delivery, his brief part is very funny. He just missed seeing Fields ( I mean that baloney Bellweather.)

[williamclaudefields]

Parts 2 and 3 now up. Three years late but there it is...

[paperbase]

FANTASTIC!!

[realitycheck333]

"Hello mister." "Hello little boy." "Would you give me a dollar?" "Ah it's a little girl. Hello little girl. How old are you?" "Five years old." "Five years old." "Would you give me a dollar to put in my bank?" "I'll give you a dollar to put in your bank, if you'll sing me a song." "Give me the dollar first." "Ah you're more than five. Go on, get out of here." the cradle of humor is universal truth.

[hitekfred]

where is the rest of this video? This has no golf scenes - which were the funniest - included??

[randyj420]

@hitekfred parts 2 and 3 were finally uploaded :)

[bchfront]

I believe, if my "Fieldsiana" is straight, this is a fairly close-record of an act Fields performed not in the "Ziegfeld Follies", but The "Earl Carroll Vanities" (Ziggie's rival) around 1928. This being 1930, it would be roughly about 2-years until Bill "hit his stride" in Hollywood, by way of those priceless Mack Sennett two-reelers, which in turn led to a Paramount contract. By then, the mustache would be gone, and he would become the W.C. we have all come to know and love!

[latmaj]

"The Golf Specialist" has always been my favorite WC Fields film. It's great! "Stand clear, keep your eye on the ball!"

[ertznay]

"Why, I've never struck a woman in my entire life!"

"You haven't?"

"Not even my own Mother."

Priceless

Where is part two??!!

[MBRAGGS]

thanks williamclaudefields for the upload.

[21458922]

3:57 re "any telegram, radio, television..?" On august 26 1930, Philo Taylor Farnsworth received a patent for the first working television system with an actual picture. Was it something everybody knew about 15 years before the first sets were sold? Could WC have grasped the potential it would have for a comedian?

[swallin19]

TV was well known , the BBC started in 1936 from London, but there were earlier broadcasts from 1930 in the UK , long before the States.

It was JL Baird who started it, not Farnsworth, who developed electronic cameras and receivers, but did not invent TV as such. Baird used Farnsworth's equipment later on, built by Baird and Marconi under licence. There is no patent that pre dates Bairds from the 1920's, despite US claims, check the wording, it refers to the use of electronic methods

[realitycheck333]

I was also wondering how he came to say television at that time. Was he a drunken clairvoyant?

[williamclaudefields]

This was a Zigfield sketch.

[fromthesidelines]

This was Fields' first "talkie", originally released in 1930- he was "between studios" at the time he made this one-reeler...

[1633ruthlor]

Awesome!!

[HunterMann]

Most of today's TV & movies can't equal the genius seen in classic comedies.

[texascarl]

Hello little boy.

"Give me a dollar"

Oh, it's a little girl.

[robertmilisits]

THX FOR THIS!!

[northwest500]

PURE GENIUS