Specspotting: Carrying the Banner



 



 
 
 

What's the main action or dialog going on in the scene?
What is Specs doing?
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The very first shot of a newsie inside the lodging house. Sleeping. Those are his glasses on his face. Not cucumbers.

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Kloppman: Come on, come on. Your dreaming about selling papers? He's rubbing his face in the background.

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Specs: Since when did you become me mudda?
Crutchy: Ah, stop your bawling
Newsies: Hey, who ast you?
He's singing! 
Mush: Ha, ha. Hear that fellas? He walks between the camera and Mush and Jack.

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Jack: Try any banker, bum or barber. He's walking around in the back by the window

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Race: Pass the towel. His hat's off and he's drying his hands on a towel hanging from the wall.

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Newsies: Ain't it a fine life! He's walking out of the bathroom.
Newsies: Every morning, we goes where we wishes. Walks diagonally through bunkroom.

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Newsies: Carrying the banner home, free, all. Walks down the stairs.

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Newsies: Summer stinks and winters waiting. He is playing around in the back behind the barrels dodging Skittery's stick attacks.

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Newsies: It's a fine life carrying the banner with me chums. He enters from the left reacts to a fake punch from Jack and then exits right.
He's singing the repeat of this line. He does not sing the original line.
Newsies: It's a fine life blowing every nickel as it comes. Runs to stand by the stairs to watch Bumlets and Skittery joust. He is singing the repeat of this line. He does not sing the original line.
Newsies: Harlem tah Delancy. What a fine life carrying the banner through the slums. He in walks to the back row and joins his fellow newsies in a pelvic thrust.
Nuns: Lost and depraved. He is walking forward from his pelvic thrust position.

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Patrick's mother: Patrick, darling. He is looking at Patrick's mother.
Newsies: Somebody help me please. He walks along the top of the screen during this line. He does not sing this line and therefore sings this half of the song:
Papers is all I got
Sure hope the headline's hot
God help me if it's not

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Newsies: If I hate the headline,
I'll make up a headline
And I'll say anything I hafta
'Cause it's two for a penny,
if I take too many
Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta.
He's dancing on the left side of the screen behind Racetrack.
Newsies: 
We need a good assassination
We need an earthquake or a war
Normal version: You can see a white shirted arm next to Kid Blink during this scene. That's Specs.
WSN: He's behind Kid Blink on the right.
Newsies: Hey stupid that ain't news no more. He's standing in the center of the group of newsies next to Itey without his hat on.

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Newsies: Down to City Hall Jumps with Jack and Kid Blink in the foreground, he's moving right.

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Newsies: Walkin' till we fall. He's in the center of screen running left.

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Newsies: See the headline, newsies on a mission. The camera pans by him during these lines. He's next to Skittery. He's singing that part during this scene.

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Oscar Delancey: In the back... He's in the upper left hand corner of the screen behind Oscar holding onto his vest.

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Jack: in you brudda here. He's in the upper left hand corner of the screen behind Oscar.

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During the fight. It's the first scene where the crowd is running past. He's at the head of a group in the background who don't start running until the end of the shot.

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Right after Jack: You owe me two bits right? 
The shot shows Davey making a wierd head motion.
He walks by quickly in the background.

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Jack: The name of the game is volume, Dave. You only took twenty papes. Why?
David: Bad headline.
Jack: That's the first thing you gotta learn. Headlines don't sell papes, newsies sell papes. You know we're what holds this town together. Without newsies nobody knows nothing.
Specs: Baby born with three heads!
He's on the right and walks through the crowd of newsies to stand right behind Davey. He pushes his way past Les after saying his line.

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