Despite appearances, Mel and Griff weren't quite facing each other - they were staggered so they wouldn't look at each other and corpse. This was the only way they could get through filming these brilliant skits.
REALLY of its time...together with the audio one...how many experts actually KNEW it all apart from engineers....my Enfield hi fi specialist staff were so good.
@@RB747domme Good guess, I used to park round their corner car park by whatever school it was on way to abbey national. having early retired from co-op tv service 2000, in turmoil at one point due to a merger,,at the time we didnt know what caused our area closures, I was transferred a lot BUT Howards window was of interest to me,,having been in retail before...NO...MY hi fi specialist was A.T,Labs at the time..I got to know them very well...it was ME who got called mr. beta max at one time via my cheques at the time..IT had the best low range hi fi gear and home cinema demo room, the day I walked in and saw fifth element on hd tv blew my socks off...one of the staff was a drummer, I played keys in a band...but Maggie..short lovely lady maybe my age or lower knew her stuff as did they all...all my hi fi gear bar my sony audio amp...ordered by our ceo but refused as it didnt fit his cabinet so I got it cost plus vat...it all lasted years, still got it but...all old format now. YES...ATLabs chase side...
If you look closely you'll see that Mel Smith is about 2 feet closer to the camera, it's a forced perspective shot. They did it so they could see their notes off camera.
TheLyingTruthTeller - I would have thought that was pretty good evidence that he was 2 foot closer to the camera. If you follow Griff's eyes you'll notice he has a hard job not occasionally looking at Mel like at 2:50
Good point but not sure if it's as much as 2 feet. Griff looks straight ahead a lot and Mel is slightly to his left so the notes are probably straight ahead of him off camera as you say.
brought back good memories, 80's had a'lot of good technology like CD's, Fingerprints [DNA], Mobile Phones, pagers, Video cameras,Digital watches,microwaves etc
Back then it was people who believed Elvis was still alive. Oh, and Rev Jim Jones. And lead in paint. And HIV/AIDS. And the Cold War. And Reaganomics/Thatchernomics.
Mel was such an incredible, underrated actor.
One of our true greats!
Sadly missed.
Mel Smith: one underrated comedic genius. RIP & cheers from Malta.
*Shame we hav'nt got anyone like them these days!*
RIP Mel Smith - your comedy will always live on
This was better than I thought. I remember this being on TV as a young kid.
Ladies this is the type of intelligent conversation us guys have down the pub.
Despite appearances, Mel and Griff weren't quite facing each other - they were staggered so they wouldn't look at each other and corpse. This was the only way they could get through filming these brilliant skits.
Smith n Jones totally underrated
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REALLY of its time...together with the audio one...how many experts actually KNEW it all apart from engineers....my Enfield hi fi specialist staff were so good.
Howards?
@@RB747domme Good guess, I used to park round their corner car park by whatever school it was on way to abbey national. having early retired from co-op tv service 2000, in turmoil at one point due to a merger,,at the time we didnt know what caused our area closures, I was transferred a lot BUT Howards window was of interest to me,,having been in retail before...NO...MY hi fi specialist was A.T,Labs at the time..I got to know them very well...it was ME who got called mr. beta max at one time via my cheques at the time..IT had the best low range hi fi gear and home cinema demo room, the day I walked in and saw fifth element on hd tv blew my socks off...one of the staff was a drummer, I played keys in a band...but Maggie..short lovely lady maybe my age or lower knew her stuff as did they all...all my hi fi gear bar my sony audio amp...ordered by our ceo but refused as it didnt fit his cabinet so I got it cost plus vat...it all lasted years, still got it but...all old format now. YES...ATLabs chase side...
If you look closely you'll see that Mel Smith is about 2 feet closer to the camera, it's a forced perspective shot. They did it so they could see their notes off camera.
+Captain Calculus , didn't notice that till you mentioned it chief, i'll now look at things differently!
TheLyingTruthTeller - I would have thought that was pretty good evidence that he was 2 foot closer to the camera. If you follow Griff's eyes you'll notice he has a hard job not occasionally looking at Mel like at 2:50
2:26 Look at Griff's hands at the bottom of the frame. They're in front of Mel's left arm. This isn't forced perspective.
Good point but not sure if it's as much as 2 feet. Griff looks straight ahead a lot and Mel is slightly to his left so the notes are probably straight ahead of him off camera as you say.
It also stopped them from corpsing which surely would have been a big problem
Citizen disk the future of technology
brought back good memories, 80's had a'lot of good technology like CD's, Fingerprints [DNA], Mobile Phones, pagers, Video cameras,Digital watches,microwaves etc
and climate change fanatics
Back then it was people who believed Elvis was still alive.
Oh, and Rev Jim Jones. And lead in paint. And HIV/AIDS. And the Cold War. And Reaganomics/Thatchernomics.
Great duo comedy. They’d be just as at home in Vaudeville or Japan.
Predicting the future of CDs!
There was one of these where they were talking about bran - wish I could find it.
lol så bra :)
What was the language in the subtitles? It looks like Danish or Swedish.
Norwegian, even though Norwegian and Danish, is like... let us go with 85% similar when written.
Haha back when you were a Technofreak if you had a CD player
I note the Norwegian for ‘marvellous’ is ‘fantastick’. That sounds suspiciously like just misspelling the English.
Its the same in swedish. A Lot of words has been "borrowed" from the English and then remade to fit our languages better
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Mel says "you walked passed my house" TH-cam thinks he says "You walked passed my ass"! Look at the subtitles if you have the vid in preview! LOL!
*past
@@ega95jch Oops!
It now reads You won't pass my ass recently lol
They were obviously heavily inspired by Laurel and Hardy.
Maybe. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were the main influence with their Dagenham Duologues.
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