The Best thing on YouTube: His Girl Friday - Between The Lines Edit

I saw the Guy Maddin event last night as part of Luminato at the Drake Hotel (glad it was free is all I can say). He and Eye Weekly critic Jason Anderson held a "clip off" showing old film clips as representing the "lives they wished to lead." It was rather odd and highly unorganized but interesting none the less. Anyway, I recorded it on audio and will put it up as a podcast shortly once I break it down into something manageable. The event was 90 minutes.

One of the clips Jason Anderson presented was from Howard Hawks His Girl Friday. So as part of reconstructing the talk (I unfortunately couldn't get any video), I was rummaging around and found the above clip, edited by Valentin Spirik.

It's quite amusing since the entire film has had all the dialogue cut out, no mean feat as His Girl Friday is primarily known for having the fastest dialogue sequences in cinema. Clearly it's the best thing I've found on uTube yet (well, other than the entire Beatles Anthology in ten minute segments).

Enjoy.