You ask for it.
Yes you ask for it television's greatest all time request show brought to you by
Skippy America's largest selling peanut butter if you like peanuts you'll like
Skippy you ask for it but your genie with the light white hair Art Baker.
Thank you very much and good evening my friends welcome to you ask for it this
is the show you know you're right in to see the things that you might possibly
ever never see again on any other television show the odd the unusually
well the impossibility of as to for also the daring that I say unusual well I'd
like to get this first one here it is indeed unusual believe me and in
granted this request you will see a very unusual encounter between a man and one
of the most feared creatures of the scene this was sent in by Walter Fett of
St. Louis and Mr. Fett says dear Art Baker I have heard a lot about the
octopus but I have never seen one is it as dangerous as they say it is I am
asking to see an octopus on your show all right Mr. Fett you asked for it and
when we open this and read your request immediately three men took off for
Hermosa Beach in California to the famous Ocean Aquarium down there there
were two cameraman and two cameraman and one expert diver now the cameraman were
Scotty well born and Alan Stanswell and the the Ross McBride was the diver now
they went down there for one purpose they had two cameras one was a newsreel
type and the other was a very intricate one that you take pictures underwater
and their purpose was to answer the question for you in your own mind are
they as dangerous as they're cracked up to be and so they made an exclusive film
for us that'll give an unusual encounter between a man and a huge octopus
you have a leisure underwater camera I was talking about the octopus that
starfish in the back is about 12 inches in diameter across that'll give you an
idea in comparison of how big the octopus is
those tentacles are about six feet long if spread out therefore there would be
12 feet eight eight of course for the octopus and you'd have about 1200
suction cups on those tentacles all right there's your diver now there's a
picture being taken them in the underwater camera uh-huh
there's a close-up of everything these isn't it
there you have one danger that is coming up here because the octopus has what
they call a beat it's a shark shell like affair that can rip and tear it got very
close to his face
kind of like jet propulsion they motivate themselves
whether the closer
if you get that camera isn't it I guess that at the one point there where it
seems that was well enough to find them stop
there again you get the size of the
you settling down
that on the bottom of the ocean the enforcement finding some among the rocks
and you'd be very different
there you have it yes that request mr. Fedders an unusual one and a very odd
one to an unlad that you sent it in because there you have the utmost
unusual thing I don't know what your mind says to you about how dangerous they
are but I know mind reader but I can tell you this the farther away they stay
from either happier I will be whether it be land or sea want to give our thanks
very much to Alan Stensvall and the Scotty well-born of the well-born
productions and Ross McBride our diaper and also to you mr. Pat because you asked
for it
for quite some time now I've been kind of telling you about the exclusive and
patented process by which Skippy is made I'm amazed to find in the in the huge
mail that comes in so many requests to see how Skippy is actually made and so I
thought my little assistant here Mary Ellen and I would endeavor to show you
as best we can we're not scientists yet but haven't got a diploma just how what
goes into the making of Skippy now of course the the first thing the label on
your Skippy jar says Skippy is made of u.s. grade one peanuts now that's what
you are looking at right now here the very finest plump fresh roasted peanuts
now the first step in the making of Skippy of course is the the removing of
the skin or they fuss it has taken off and force I'm a little awkward doing of
my hands here up in the factory it is done by an intricate machine of course
the hall has taken off because it absolutely adds nothing to the flavor
just kind of black and now the next thing is Skippy removes the nibs those
odd little bits of the peanut when they split apart there that leaves a very
bitter aftertaste in your mouth now the removal of the peanut and it may not
seem very important to you but it is typical my friends of the extreme care
that's used in the making of Skippy let's see what happens next well in any
bunch of peanuts I don't care how much you pay for them how fine they may be
there are bound to be a few that are kind of shriveled or hard or imperfect
one way or another and they are very carefully removed very Ellen you take
them out let us get them all at once mm-hmm one over there anymore no I think
that doesn't fit of course you should see the women up in the factory they are
at death at that if you ever saw let me see on our first lesson Mariana we've
now got to one point that's important that way we have perfect peanuts and
that's the only thing that is used in Skippy so I believe we'll end this first
lesson later on I'll try to take you on from here and just end it with a famous
statement of my assistant that says if you like peanuts you'll like Skippy.
Those hands are playing the strangest musical instrument in the world the only
instrument that is not touched by hand this is an answer to a request here this
comes from Joan Westbrook Atlanta Georgia. Dear Art Baker I have heard of a
musical instrument that can be played without touching it if this is so I would
like to see and hear it Joanne Westbrook. All right Miss Westbrook you asked for it
and there it is the pheromone T H E R A M I N a very strange instrument that is
played without anyone touching it at all and the artist who is playing the pheromone
is one of the few pheromone soloists in the entire world
a very charming and lovely
instrument. Willa Merrick. I'd like you to tell us exactly what happens in an
art instrument like this if you don't touch please. Well we have here these two
antennas and this is an instrument of magnetic fields. This perpendicular
antenna is the pitch control and watch me as I get close to the antenna the tones
are higher.
See in that manner and as I come away there they are lower. And with this antenna
as I raise my hand the tones are louder.
And lower it softer. See it has no strings or reads a keyboard of any kind.
It's got a kind of a magnetic brain and there's a voice almost human.
You don't believe me they say they say I have recordings in there but really I
haven't. Now but any hands beside yours play this thing.
With these things.
Oh fine. I'm going to get the request down there. I'm going to play I love you truly.
It's good.
That's pretty.
You may be a big problem. You without enough practice I found
room
that was a lot of fact that i thought was a fact is that it's going to be more
years ago that i don't know if you're going to be a great respect for that
delicacy of your attention the folks of this thing
uh... would you please so hopefully or financial
i'd like to think that i'm ready to
from atlanta georgia john westbrook
and we'd like to do for her
and i don't know
girl
bar
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The brain you just saw death on a movie lot because you asked for it as
a man was killed the way they kill them in the movies and in order to show you how
it was done we'll look at this request this is what started here this is from
Harry Brandt from Houston Texas Mr. Brandt said Mr. Baker I like cowboy and
Indian pictures those real shoot-em-ups as much as my grandchildren do so I
would like to see how they shoot a man in the back and some of them other tricks
and sincerely Henry Brandt all right Mr. Brandt you asked for it and we are very
fortunate being able to grant you a request here in order to do so we'll go
back to what would be a typical movie scene here and I have the privilege of
having with me tonight one of the top special effects men of Hollywood what a
great deal to do with the engine contributing special effects for Cyrano
de Bergerac this is mr. Willis Cook
other bastardly trick shooting him in the back there I saw it very well don't
tell me you're another William Tell with deadly accuracy I don't know how how
how was your accuracy engaged there please I think before we do that though
we should think of our fallen comrades can you make it certainly I'm glad to
see you and ladies and gentlemen other top special effects man who was
considered to many major pictures and this is Maurice a
I'm sure you're all right I'm positive now yes yeah all right now tell me how
was that done please the accuracy part well I can't miss our it's not like
William Tell we don't yes we just can't miss the wires fastening its back and
runs back to this wide gun which is a glorified slingshot and the arrow
travels down the wire so it has to go to a spot I mean it's threaded on there
that's right and from here you got it back to your plate it has to go on as
the accuracy but now how does it keep from hurting him is what I want to know
well underneath his jacket here we have a false affair that has a metal plate
on it huh huh I can go anyplace all about it so good huh and you got a big
metal insured didn't hurt you all not a bad idea great well I know there's a lot
of ramifications we'd like to have an hour by the way but what's that gun
there with the wings on it man for our business
problem has liquid rubber and that's what made this well you may have this afternoon on here
there's that's a wrinkle of powder on what is this this is liquid rubber comes
out of this gun it's spun out of it crack the side of the gun right now
we're operating what do you know how to put powder on it so that you can see it
stand out from the camera is just like that was our find out where it is and
that's not anywhere from shooting a man in the back then to live to a spider
web that's it well now what else would you say now is that
a shot at me go through the night what is this only a gag gag
I'm in the world behind here here's all you do the knife came from the back of
the door didn't come from out there not at all no perfectly safe came from the
back of the door in the front boom shot the things of what I want to know well
Mr. Baker those are small garages of powder behind little box here you see and
they blow a hole in the front of the door just about the size of a bullet hole
blow a hole in the door you see how much splintered out there I hope to tell you
you could control any place you want to bullet hole all those gimmicks huh now
suppose I were a director and I said now I want this to look very dangerous I want
the bullish to skim right past his nose there up in his head area there could you
do that oh I do not want any trouble I just get ready here like this here we go
Rob that is that's too close for comfort even though I know how you did that
that really is only thread believe me there you go from that to shooting and
with knives and it's from the back of the door instead of the front at what else
now you think we should know about in the brief time we have here well I know
there's a breakaway window you mean behind the cobweb this is a phony too
that's right that's the kind one that the only has rosin glass in it has also
what a softener also one that's right and that's the kind of thing that the
stuntman breaks through when he's cornered or something yes away in a room
jumps through so you know it's stuntman sounds exciting to go always thought I'd
like to be what I love your chance you mean here's my chance now that's right
what if I bust through the thing when I think I could do it or I should I should
have gone this way and no I'll come on tonight
and you can do it why sure and I'm cornered in here cornered are you ready
out there yeah well here I come
oh yeah there's nothing to it if you have special effects men behind the job
who know their work as well as these two gentlemen here believe me I appreciate
very much Mr. Ed you're coming to an end this request was granted I know they're
gonna kick out of that thank you very much willers book I was really something
and also thanks to letter writer Henry brand from Houston Texas because you asked
for it
it reminds me nothing happened on this show I know unless you asked for it yes
ask for the unusual ask for the odd ask for things that would interest you and
interest somebody else this is the kind of show that you'll probably see
something you couldn't see on any other television show may I ask you to jot this
down use your thinking cap here's our address you asked for it box three two
three Hollywood twenty eight thank you
well how do you like my family I mean the family portrait here probably one of
the biggest family porters ever taken any place especially on television
they're not my family but they are relatives of someone we were quite
surprised to find letter after letter after letter saying all right you asked
water here's what I want to see I want to see my aunt my uncle my grandma my
grandpa or somebody that moved out to California long ago that's what I would
like to ask for to see them there and so we just kind of picked out at random a
number of these call them up and said the folks want to see you back Eastern
North or South and so they're gathered here and don't they make a beautiful
look in photograph I love that the head is really a tin-tacket folks I love now
look very pretty now and straighten up smile very quickly and fix your tie I don't
like to watch the birdie there is the photograph now I think you ought to
unlike a little bit better relax here and tell the folks back there by the way
you look at them and they bright look in your eye the California has treated you
very nicely and say hello to them and give them a real greeting and don't
forget they asked for it
yes that really was an old-fashioned didn't I was brought up to modern day
wasn't it yeah I've been a little earlier here try to show you something
about how stiff he was made because it is a fascinating thing there's only one
thing I've got it made like this in the entire world I showed you how was if he
removes the hospital the skin there's some of them there and as well as the
peanut nibs they're all taken out because they leave a bitter aftertaste
and also the imperfect nuts and a bunch of them there now let's see what happens
next to these perfect peanuts that go into the making of the skipping we got
that far less done now the next step is to extract this peanut oil from the
peanut meats at this point some very unusual things happen the free fatty
acids that they call them stalemakers they're removed from the peanut oil now
only skippy does this is a very intricate process and specialized and
developed machinery up there in the factory so the skippy will not become
stale or rancid and will be easy to digest now the refined peanut oil is
then the hydrogen eyes that's a $10 word I learned up at the factory there it
means that the oil is actually converted into a solid form now there's exclusive
processes done so that there'll be no oil separation in skippy and it's also
responsible for that smooth creamery butter texture that you find only in
skipping now this hydrogenated peanut oil is then mixed back in with the
peanut meats which have been ground of course and here is the finished product
for one peanut butter that tastes exactly like plump selected fresh roasted
peanuts no other peanut butter tastes like skippy of course because well no
other peanut butter is made like skipping and I'd love you to try skipping
because I'll just make it simple if you like peanuts you'll like skipping
yes I have the setting for this one it would be the Wintergarten theater about
1929 yes with a Schubert production Cinderella on Broadway that's the
setting for this next request here and it's most interesting this comes from
Elsa Anderson of Minneapolis huh oh I see now Minneapolis it says dear Art
Baker my favorite comedian and one of the favorites of many people I'm sure is
that ever lovable Swede Elbren del I have seen Elbren del in many motion
pictures but I have never seen him in person on television thanks Elsa
Anderson all right miss Anderson you asked for it and we are very fortunate
and be able to give you your request because we have with us that lovable
comedian Elbren del but not only that we go back about 21 years and we have the
famous team that was then on Broadway this is Brenda and Burt mr. and mrs.
Brenda known as the Elbren del now 21 years ago it happens that the great
producer their motion picture producer Raoul Walsh found Elbren del bought him
out here to Hollywood and says that time there's been no time for the old-fashioned
things that we call them that we've done 21 years ago but right now we're going
to recreate some of the highlights of the famous vaudeville act that was
making them laugh 21 years ago we have friend L and Burt
thank you and good evening ladies and gentlemen there 21 years you missed that
is a long time ago that's a heap of years my goodness they're gonna have to
need reach me back you know do you think you could remember some of those things
we've done so many years ago sure I rehearsed all afternoon that's
television and you're dressed for I love that suit oh you do this was made to
order I don't know who for but I got it
what's become the cute little bow tie you used to wear you mean the one I
hooked in here well I lose him but I got one I could never lose again do you
remember that song but you used to sing about the cowboy you remember him oh you
know the cowboy who wanted to kick in the pants that was that one oh it's no
run oh now I remember give me a boot in my saddle
you let me see that general store let me ride the range once more give me my
boots and my saddle oh let me ramble along the prairie
whoo-hoo
oh my body slim and thanks give me my boots and my saddle I got a hanker in
the V with a banjo on my knee some in a pretty Western too there's a boy in
Ter key way down for me wait beneath a Lexus
Oh
Take me back to my boot and my saddle.
Oh, play here.
Let me sit, play, and moan on the ranch where I was born.
Give me my boot and saddle.
Oh, play here.
Really, oh, play here.
Oh, yes.
Well, you know.
Ah, yes, you know, you know that that's a good old sound flow.
Yes, sir, they're bringing back all the old things.
Yes?
Do you remember this, Al?
What's that?
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
Hey, hey, wait a minute.
What is that?
That's Charleston.
Well, you stand back.
I'll show you Minneapolis.
Oh.
the
word
the
i don't know what they're going to have been done by
they were recreating for assembly in twenty one years and they have done that
i want to tell you that take a look at the back on broadway and twenty one years
ago it is awful funny tonight i think
i think that that request and thank you very much else anderson of minneapolis
because
you asked for it
like that it was next week was to be the world's largest selling peanut butter
investment in the next week but i know you'll go for one is a new
wire
the other is
our gang
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goodnight