Kable and Karr
MPEG-4 Black & White Sound 1969 11:50

Summary: Documentary on a pair of drag artists and their act, performed in London pubs.
Title number: 22110
LSA ID: LSA/29862
Description: 00:00 – 01:28 LFS card. Two men (Derrick and Norman) dressed as women get on stage and start ‘singing’. Camera moves around to view them from the side, cut with shots of the audience. ‘LSFT presents’ and ‘Kable and Carr’ title cards. Crew credits.
01:28 – 02:50 A wall with lots of hats and wigs hanging from it. Camera pans across to the two men entering the room and shutting the door behind them. The men undress and apply make up. Camera pans up the wall of hats. The men leave the room in new outfits. They enter the bar and sit down at a table and light cigarettes.
02:50 – 03:34 The film fades from the bar to the dressing room as one of the men walks in dressed in regular clothes. The camera pans across to the other man sitting down working on a wig. Camera pans up from the wig to the man’s face. A man lays outfits down on a bed. The man holds the wig in the steam from a kettle. A cat in a sink eats cat food out of a tin.
03:34 – 05:43The man places the wig down and walks across the room to another wig on a mannequin head and moves it onto the mantelpiece. A man picks up a record sleeve and places the record on a gramophone and stands the sleeve next to it. Another shot of the cat in the sink. Man removes curlers from a wig. One of the men leaves the room. Camera pans across from a plastic parrot to one of the men shaving. Close up on the men applying make-up.
05:43 – 06:45 Camera fades to one of the men dressed as a woman walking through into the bar and going on stage. He presses play on the tape machine and starts performing. Various shots of him performing cut with shots of the audience.
06:45 – 07:49 The other man gets changed in the dressing room. He lights a cigarette. Back to the other man performing on stage.
07:49 – 08:44 Close up on the feet of the man in the dressing room as he stubs out his cigarette and walks through the door. He walks on to stage as the other man leaves and starts performing. Shots of the performance and the audience.
08:44 – 10:14 In the dressing room, the other man changes his outfit. On stage, the man finishes his performance and swaps with the other man who starts his next performance. Shots of him doing a Charleston style dance and of the audience.
10:14 – 11:50 The other man leaves the dressing room in a new outfit. Various shots of the audience as the man begins the next song. Fade to the audience again. Both men on stage. They start to remove jewellery during the performance. They then take their wigs off as they end the performance and the curtain closes. End card and thanks. LFS end card.
Credits: Chris Sames (Director); John Morgan Man (Producer); Simon Lewis (Camera operator)
Further information: Subject to third party music clearance
Keywords: LGBTQ, Drag Artists,
Locations: Windsor Castle Public House
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