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Ethel, I thought we were going over to the Ricardos tonight.

We are. I'm ready.

All right.

Come on.

You better take your glasses with you. What for? I know what Lucy and Ricky

like.

Suppose Ricky wants to show us his home movies again.

He wouldn't dare.

He's been showing them to us every night.

Well, after all, it's his first movie camera and the first pictures he's got

the baby.

Well, count me out. If I want to see old movies, I can stay home and watch

television.

Well, what can we do?

I'll tell you what we'll have to do.

Don't let the conversation lag.

Don't even give him a chance to suggest showing the movies. Hey, that's a good

idea. Now, just remember, here's what you've got to do. Just keep talking and

talking and talking and talking.

You know, act normal.

No, no, no, I take that back. I need you on my team tonight.

Now get in there and fight and keep those lips moving.

Lucy? Yeah?

Are the mercies coming over tonight?

Yeah, they said they were.

What do you think is holding them up?

Gee, I don't know. They ought to be here any minute.

Here they are. Oh, good.

I'm glad you came.

I like unusual weather, particularly at this time of year.

Uh -huh. What were you doing today, Rick?

I was pretty busy puttering around the apartment, and I went over to the

drugstore and got an ice cream soda.

An all -around strawberry soda.

That's the soda with strawberry flavor and strawberry ice cream.

Yeah. Pretty good. Yeah. You sure are.

Uh, I had an idea... How are you, Lucy?

Fine. And what's new?

Nothing. I had an idea that maybe... Uh, Fred, Fred, there's some... I've been

wanting to ask you.

Well, what is it, Ethel? Uh, how are you, Fred?

Fine. How are you?

Oh, pretty good.

I don't think either one of you are well.

I had an idea that maybe tonight you would... Oh, look, Lucy's got some

delicious new candy.

You want a piece, Fred? Yeah.

Okay, there you are. I guess I'll have a piece, too.

Ethel, those are just those same old... you gave us for Christmas.

I had an idea. Like I was saying, you know, that what maybe you would like to

tonight, and I thought you'd like to see the pictures I took of the baby.

Oh, honey, Ethel and Fred don't want to see those pictures again.

What are you talking about? The pictures of their godson.

Oh, Ricky, we'd really love to see them, but it hurts our eyes to look at them

on that wrinkled old sheet you use for a screen.

Oh? Yeah, outside of that, we'd be delighted.

Now,

the reason I wanted you to see them again is because I wanted you to see

this new screen I bought today.

Wait till you see them in that.

Go get your glasses, Fred.

I'll watch without.

You can't see without them.

I got it all set up just in case you ask to see them again.

Fred, get rid of your hat, will you?

Did you take it off? I mean, you know, move it over.

Turn the lights up, honey. Yeah.

Lucy just didn't argue with me.

Doesn't he look cute? Look at that.

Bigger close -up.

Now, this one was a great idea.

Pictures of Sims moving that fast are pretty tough.

Ah, how's that, huh? How's that for a moving shot?

right through the bedroom and into the nursery.

Have you ever seen anything better than that in a real movie?

Huh? Look at the way that focus is all the way.

You can see them in the mirror in the back. See them in the mirror in the back

there?

This would have been great if I hadn't tripped over the baby's wagon.

That's a great way to get killed.

Just take a picture of your wife when she wakes up in the morning.

Now, the next ten minutes of film is just as good as anyone has

ever taken.

I don't want to brag, but I think that I learned pretty fast.

And as Lucy hauls up little Ricky and waves goodbye, we say a reluctant

to the Ricardo apartment and its charming inhabitants.

This is a Ricky Ricardo production.

first pictures that I... Lucy!

We wanted to be sure the coast is clear. Is Ricky very mad?

I'll say he is. He wouldn't even talk to me this morning.

Well, we're the ones who sneaked out. What's he mad at you for? I fell asleep.

Oh, no.

Good morning. Morning.

Goodbye.

Now, Ricky, wait a minute.

We're sorry.

We really liked your movies.

Yeah, yeah.

My, boy, you sound sincere.

Well, I mean it.

Oh, sure.

I do.

I'm just dying to see those lousy movies again.

Fred, that's a terrible thing to say. Ricky put a lot of time and effort into

those lousy movies. Those movies.

Oh, now, Ricky, they didn't mean that.

Look, you don't have to worry about me.

You don't have to see any of the movies that I take ever again, including the TV

pilot film that I'm just about to audition.

Oh, Fred, what's the matter with you? That's a fine... TV pilot film?

What were you saying about a TV pilot film?

Nothing that concerns you. I was going to make one using the three of you as

actors, but I have changed my mind about the supporting cast.

Adios, amigos.

Fix the sheets and blankets. Now go take a nap.

so he'd use us in it.

Yeah, well, we can all go back to being our normal nasty selves. He's already

made it. What?

And next week, the most important man in television, Mr. Bennett Green, is

coming over to look at it.

Well, we certainly muffed that one. What do you mean, we?

You were the ones who tippy -toed out in the middle of our home movies.

You should talk, sleepy -time gal.

You're the one who really clinched the whole thing with your diplomatic remark.

Sure, I'm just dying to see those lousy movies again.

Ah, just a minute.

Oh, really, Fred? Oh, you two, now stop squabbling. The main thing is, what can

we do about it?

Nothing. We're not in it, so that's that.

Yeah, as an old Cuban philosopher once said, we have plugged in the electric

blanket, now let's take the snooze.

Well, it's too bad, but it's just one of those things.

Oh, I guess so.

Hey, just a minute.

We forgot Miss Never Say Die.

Lucy, what are you planning? What are you thinking? What's going on? We'll

our own TV film. Our own? Yeah, we'll make it just like Ricky did. We'll use

film, his camera, his light, his wife, and if they play their cards right, his

wife's friend.

And then when Mr. Bennett Green comes over, he'll see a double feature.

What kind of a film will we make?

Um, a western drama.

Hey. That's a wonderful idea.

We'll get a name later. Right now we have a lot to think about. We have to

costumes, scenery, have to find out who shoots who.

Oh, boy.

Look at this, Fred. Isn't this great?

This is fixed up great.

Hey, Lucy.

real, don't they? Look at that one.

Well, I've had moments when real people look like that.

Come on, we've got to get started. We've got to get all this finished and out of

the way before Ricky gets home. What's that thing? That's a projector.

I know, it's a new kind. You put the sound right on the film like a tape

recorder. Oh.

Fred, now, for the first part, you take the picture. You look right through this

little red thing here, and then you press this button right here, see?

See that?

You press that down.

What's this little dial here for? It says 8, 16, 32, 64.

Gee, I don't know.

Well, take a little bit of each number and see what happens.

Yep, stand back here. Remember how we did it.

Okay.

Hollywood ones, that's the way they make pictures.

Well, who's going to run the camera if I'm off the scene?

Oh, well, we set that on automatic, see? We push this button right here and the

camera takes a picture by itself. I got it.

How'd you find out?

Now I put in the film.

I didn't come home for dinner. I just came over to pick up my guitar.

What are these pictures?

I asked, what are these pictures?

Would you believe it if I told you they were taken by a sidewalk photographer?

No.

No. Well, I might as well tell you the truth.

A talent scout called us from Hollywood, and he came over here with all of his

equipment, and he took pictures of all of us while we were... because he... Go

on.

I can't. I don't even believe it myself.

Well, all right, I'll tell you, Ricky.

We got mad at you because you wouldn't let us be in your TV film, so we made

of our own.

So you show your film to Mr. Green and we'll show ours.

Mr. Green is a very busy man. He will only have time to see one film.

Well, that's very sweet of you, dear, but when will he see yours?

You know what I mean. You won't show your film to anybody tomorrow night.

Now, just...

Well, just show it to each other while I'm running my boring baby pictures.

Hasta la vista.

Well, that's that.

Oh, no, it isn't. Our picture will be shown, and what's more, Ricky will be

showing it. What are you going to do, switch reels?

No, I'm going to cut our picture into Ricky's. I'm going to figure out a way

use the best parts of both.

Give me Ricky's phone in the closet here.

Get this back on here now.

Where is it?

on the projection machine right away. Right. Oh, I hope it's all right. I did

in such a hurry. Here, pick all this stuff up.

Here you are, Mr. Green. Oh, hi.

Mr.

Green, this is my wife, Lucy.

How do you do, Mr. Green? Very nice to know you. This is our neighbors, Mr. and

Mrs. Merge. How do you do? Hi, Mr. Green. Mr.

Green is very busy, so he just has time to see the film and then he has to leave

right away.

Well, you know how demanding television is. Oh, I certainly do, Mr. Green.

That's fine, all right.

Looking for some unusual shows, and this film is liable to be the biggest

surprise of the year.

You can say that again.

Well, uh, what did you say, Mr. Green? Right over there, Mr. Green.

That's it, right over in there.

Lucy, would you turn on the light, please?

As a change in your television entertainment, tonight we bring you a

Latin American rhythms, starting with the very popular Vaya con Dios.

Vaya con Dios, mi amor.

I'm an old cow hen from the Rio Grande.

And the legs ain't bold and the cheeks ain't tan.

Las campanas de la iglesia suenan ti.

Symbosia!

Yeah, Mr.

like this.

say anything, just let me have it. It's terrific.

What?

The funniest thing I've ever seen. Such imagination.

Most people would make a straight -down musical show, but you added all those

delightful touches of comedy.

You liked it, huh?

Oh, Mrs.

Ricardo, you were wonderful, and the merchants were just great. Oh, thank

thank you very much.

Mrs. Ricardo, you're married to a genius.

Oh, yes, I know.

think of it, dear?

I don't know.

It just came to me.

I Love Lucy is a Desilu production.

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will be back next week at this same time.