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''Radio Parade of 1935'' (1934), released in the US as ''Radio Follies'', is a British
comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Arthur B. Woods Arthur Bickerstaffe Woods (17 August 1904 – 8 February 1944) was an English film director with 27 credits between 1933 and 1940. Woods' films were mainly quota quickies but were diverse in style, from light comedy and musicals to dark crime ...
and starring
Will Hay William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a schoolmaster sketch that later transferred to the screen, where he also played other authority figures with comic failings. His film ''Oh ...
,
Clifford Mollison Clifford Lely Mollison (30 March 1897 – 4 June 1986) was a British stage, film and television actor. He made his stage debut in 1913. He was married to the actress Avril Wheatley. His younger brother was the actor Henry Mollison. Mollison ac ...
and Helen Chandler. It followed on from the 1933 film '' Radio Parade''.


Plot

The film tells the story of the sophisticated Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (
Will Hay William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a schoolmaster sketch that later transferred to the screen, where he also played other authority figures with comic failings. His film ''Oh ...
) who promotes the ambitious Head of Complaints to Programmer Director (
Clifford Mollison Clifford Lely Mollison (30 March 1897 – 4 June 1986) was a British stage, film and television actor. He made his stage debut in 1913. He was married to the actress Avril Wheatley. His younger brother was the actor Henry Mollison. Mollison ac ...
) in an attempt to stem the number of complaints he is receiving owing to the station's overly intellectual programming. In 1930s British slang, the
acronym An acronym is a word or name formed from the initial components of a longer name or phrase. Acronyms are usually formed from the initial letters of words, as in ''NATO'' (''North Atlantic Treaty Organization''), but sometimes use syllables, as ...
"NBG" stood for "no bloody good". The character played by Hay is clearly intended to be a satirical parody of
Lord Reith Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are ...
, and the NBG the
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...
.


Cast

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Will Hay William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian who wrote and acted in a schoolmaster sketch that later transferred to the screen, where he also played other authority figures with comic failings. His film ''Oh ...
as DG.William Garlon/GarlandName is spelled Garlon on door of character's office in the first few scenes but referred to in speech as Garland * Helen Chandler as Joan Garland *
Clifford Mollison Clifford Lely Mollison (30 March 1897 – 4 June 1986) was a British stage, film and television actor. He made his stage debut in 1913. He was married to the actress Avril Wheatley. His younger brother was the actor Henry Mollison. Mollison ac ...
as Jimmy Clare *
Davy Burnaby George Davy Burnaby (7 April 1881 – 18 April 1949) was a British actor who appeared in more than thirty films between 1929 and 1948. He was born in Buckland, Hertfordshire and made his screen debut in the 1929 film ''The Devil's Maze''. He die ...
as Sir Frederick Fotheringhay * Lily Morris & Nellie Wallace as Charladies *
The Western Brothers The Western Brothers were an English people, English music hall and radio act, who were popular from the 1930s to the late 1950s, performing self-written topical songs which often lampooned the upper classes. Kenneth Alfred Western (10 Septembe ...
as Announcers *
Alfred Drayton Alfred Drayton (1 November 1881 – 26 April 1949) was a British stage and film actor. Drayton worked in a brewery when he was 18 but having a good deal of amateur dramatics experience decided to go on stage. His first appearance on stage was ''T ...
as Carl Graham *Gerry Fitzgerald & Arthur Young as Window Cleaners *
Claude Dampier Claude Dampier (born Claud Conolly Cowan; 23 November 1878 – 1 January 1955) was an English film actor and popular character comedian in the early 20th century. Life He was born in Clapham, South London as Claud Conolly Cowan.Richard Anthony ...
as Piano Tuner * Robert Nainby as Col. Featherstone Haugh Haugh *Hugh E.Wright as Algernon Bird *
Jimmy Godden Jimmy Godden (11 August 1879 – 5 March 1955) was a British film actor. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and was in the Civil Service before becoming a concert pianist. Godden later turned to the stage and made his debut in pantomime at th ...
as Vere de V. de Vere *Basil Foster as Capt.Esne St J. Entwistle *Ivor McLaren as Eric Lyttle-Lyttle


Production background and preservation status

Two sequences in the film were filmed in
Dufaycolor Dufaycolor is an early British additive colour photographic film process, introduced for motion picture use in 1932 and for still photography in 1935. It was derived from Louis Dufay's Dioptichrome plates, a glass-based product for colour sti ...
. The film is extant.


See also

*
List of early color feature films This is a list of early feature-length color films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major-studio f ...


References


External links

* 1934 films 1934 comedy films 1930s color films British black-and-white films Films shot at British International Pictures Studios 1930s English-language films Films directed by Arthur B. Woods Films scored by Benjamin Frankel British comedy films 1930s British films {{1930s-UK-comedy-film-stub