Porter - a former Thomas Edison cameraman.It was a primitive one-reeler action picture, about 10 minutes long, with 14-scenes, filmed in November 1903 - not in the western expanse of Wyoming but on the East Coast in various locales in New Jersey (at Edison""s New York studio, at Essex County Park in New Jersey, and along the Lackawanna railroad).Breaking the spell, a very hot and grumpy Mr.Alonzo Smith (Leon Ames), the well-to-do lawyer and head of the household trudges up to the house after work at the office and squelches their performance in the parlor: "For heaven""s sakes, stop that screeching!"Wiping his sweaty brow, he collapses into a chair and mutters:That song.Diz: Then what are you doing in the Senate?Sweeney: What""s he doing? Well, honorary appointments.Reporter: The country needs men up there who know and have courage as it never did before.He""s just gonna decorate a chair and get himself honored.Reporter: And that he votes, sure, just like his colleague tells him to.Diz: Yes sir, like a Christmas tiger, he""ll nod his head and vote ""YES."" You""re not a Senator.You""re an honorary stooge.You ought o be shown up.BackgroundMy Man Godfrey(1936) is one of the 1930""s most delightful, classic screwball comedies.It was directed by Gregory La Cava for Universal and is now considered the definitive screwball comedy, with its social commentary on life during the 30s.He explains pain-avoidance to her:Mrs.Pilletti (serving dinner): So, what are you gonna do tonight Marty?Marty: I don""t know, Ma.I""m all knocked out.I may just hang around he house.Mrs.Pilletti: Why don""t you go to the Stardust Ballroom?Marty: What?Mrs.Pilletti: I say, why don""t you go to the Stardust Ballroom? It""s loaded with tomatoes.Marty: It""s loaded with what?Mrs.Pilletti: Tomatoes.Marty: (laughs) Who told you about the Stardust Ballroom, Ma?Mrs.Pilletti: Tommy.[Tommy is Marty""s married cousin.] He say it was a very nice place.Marty: Oh, Thomas.Ma, it""s just a big dance hall, that""s all it is.I been there a hundred times.Loaded with tomatoes - boy, you""re funny, Ma.Mrs.Pilletti: Marty, I don""t want you to hang around the house tonight.I want you to go take a shave and go dance.Marty: (pleading) Ma, when you gonna give up? You got a bachelor on your hands.I ain""t never gonna get married.Mrs.Pilletti: You""re gonna get married.Marty: Ma, sooner or later, there comes a point in a man""s life when he""s gotta face some facts.And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain""t got it.I chased after enough girls in my life.I-I went to enough dances.I got hurt enough.I don""t wanna get hurt no more.I just called up a girl this afternoon, and I got a real brush-off, boy! I figured I was past the point of being hurt, but that hurt.