Wikisource:WikiProject Film/Drafts/Archives/Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck
User: M-le-mot-dit
File: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck.webm
Author: Theodore Willard Case
Publisher: Case Studios
Year: 1925
PD: PD-US|1972|film=yes
Note: A 1925 American short musical comedy and early sound film. Visser sings Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me, written by Con Conrad and Sidney Glare. This film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.
Cat: Musical film, Sound film
00:13
Gus Visser
A little song entitled—
00:16
Duck
Ma.
00:28
Gus
♪ Little Lilly was oh! so silly and shy,
And all the fellows knew
She wouldn't bill and coo;
Ev'ry single night some fellow would try
To cuddle up to her, but she would cry: ♪
00:46
Gus
♪ "Oh! Ma! he's making eyes at me!" ♪
00:51
Both
♪ "Ma!—" ♪
00:52
Gus
♪ "—He's awful nice to me!" ♪
00:55
Duck
♪ "Ma!—" ♪
00:56
Gus
♪ "—He's almost breaking my heart,
I'm beside him,
Mercy! Let his conscience guide him!" ♪
01:04
Duck
♪ "Ma!—" ♪
01:05
Gus
♪ "—He wants to marry me,
And be my honey bee.
Ev'ry minute he gets bolder,
Now he's leaning on my shoulder," ♪
01:17
Duck
♪ "Ma!—" ♪
01:18
Gus
♪ "—He's kissing me!" ♪
01:20
Gus
♪ "Oh!—" ♪
01:21
Both
♪ "—Ma!—" ♪
01:22
Gus
♪ "He's making eyes at me!" ♪
01:25
Duck
♪ "Ma!—" ♪
01:26
Gus
♪ "—He's awful nice to me!
Oh! Ma! He's almost breaking my heart,
I'm beside him,
Mercy! Let his conscience guide him!" ♪
01:38
Both
♪ "Ma!—" ♪
01:39
Gus
♪ "—He wants to marry me,
And be my honey bee.
He is too fat, he shook like jelly;
When he laughs he shakes his shoulder!" ♪
01:51
Duck
♪ "Ma!—" ♪
01:52
Gus
♪ "—He's kissing me!" ♪
01:55
Duck
Ma!