Stutchkoff: Web of Words 1 סטוטשקאָוו: וואָרטגעוועב

Including an old recording of "Joe and Paul" by the Barton Brothers and a Stutchkoff ad for RCA Victor radio stores from 1937.

Film Contents
1: Begins with static in space, then real WEVD jingle and "Joe and Paul" clothing store ad. Aliens wonder what it means. Reenacted ad for RCA Victor radios with their amazing "magic brain."
2-4: Reenacted "People with Troubles" [episode 110] A classic Stutchkoff melodrama about an arranged marriage, set in a town in Poland before the Second World War. Epitomizes the shtetl myth of authentic, deeply religious pre-war Jews, a world which Stutchkoff reconstructed in many radio programs and in his lexicographic work.
5: Alien interlude. Family trip.
6-8: Reenacted "People with Troubles" [episode 22] Set after the war, a young survivor comes to America, becomes mentally disturbed, and is eventually hospitalized. This episode is the shattered present counterpart to the myth of the past in the previous episode.
9:Alien interlude. Is radio real? On Stutchkoff's program as a virtual community for Jewish immigrants without a home to go back to.
10-12: Invented "People with Troubles" episode, in which Stutchkoff narrates his own life as a melodrama. His first steps as a lexicographer and as a radio announcer. His lexicon of Yiddish rhymes. Includes a reenacted interview from WEVD with Stutchkoff about his thesaurus. Scenes with various philologists about (not) creating the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language. Ends in static.
13-14: Alien interlude. Aliens turn off the radio and encounter their destination: Planet Stutchoff. Inside the planet they enter Stutchkoff's brain - a sort of Stutchkoff in Wonderland, a landscape of words which can speak. Among the various brain departments, the aliens visit the Hall of Forgotten Words and the room of Stutchkoff's soul.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Yiddish
• radio
• Stutchkoff

[PutOnASweater]

There's a great CD, "Joe and Paul: The Best of The Barton Brothers" available from Hatikvah Music...check it out on the internet. The CD has the complete song, this is only part #1.

[drhaldanish]

great.

[backedbycash]

I grew up listening to this song.Thanks.