Bricklaying comedy routine, possibly W.C. Fields'?
It's playing in my head at the moment using W.C. Fields' voice, but I'm not 100 per cent sure it was his routine. It's an anecdote and not on film or TV to my recollection. Maybe it was in a book? On Old Time Radio? Argh.
The scene is a bricklaying station on new construction. A novice bricklayer obeys his boss and places a large amount of bricks in the container to be hoisted to the men working on the scaffolding above him. The novice is standing on a board which acts like a teeter-totter and when he hauls on the pulley to lift the container, he himself is tangled in the rope and gets lifted. He's frantic and cuts the rope, which slams him to the ground onto the teeter-totter which then punts the heavy container into the air. He again gets tangled in the rope and is airborne once more. He carefully makes his way down the rope, but winds up on the teeter-totter. The container doesn't reach its intended target on the scaffolding and slams down again on the other side of the teeter-totter. Up the guy goes again! Rinse and repeat.
There might be more to this series of events. These are the ones that stick out. Thanks for any help. I asked at a W.C. Fields website some time back with no reply.
The scene is a bricklaying station on new construction. A novice bricklayer obeys his boss and places a large amount of bricks in the container to be hoisted to the men working on the scaffolding above him. The novice is standing on a board which acts like a teeter-totter and when he hauls on the pulley to lift the container, he himself is tangled in the rope and gets lifted. He's frantic and cuts the rope, which slams him to the ground onto the teeter-totter which then punts the heavy container into the air. He again gets tangled in the rope and is airborne once more. He carefully makes his way down the rope, but winds up on the teeter-totter. The container doesn't reach its intended target on the scaffolding and slams down again on the other side of the teeter-totter. Up the guy goes again! Rinse and repeat.
There might be more to this series of events. These are the ones that stick out. Thanks for any help. I asked at a W.C. Fields website some time back with no reply.