The Joe McDoakes series was a long-lived series of live-action one-reel short films produced by Warner Bros. from 1942 to 1956. In film and video, live action refers to works that are acted out by flesh-and-blood actors, as opposed to animation. ... A short film (also short or short subject) is a motion picture that is shorter than the average feature film. ... The WB Shield used from 2003 to present day Warner Bros. ... This article is about the year. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The series starred George O'Hanlon (later the voice of George Jetson on The Jetsons) as Joe McDoakes, who, though he had a different occupation in each short, was "always behind the eightball". George OHanlon (November 23, 1912 - February 11, 1989) was an American actor, comedian, and voice actor. ... A voice actor (or voice artist) is a person who provides voices for computer and video games, puppet shows, amusement rides, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, stop motion, and animation works (including cartoons, animated feature films, animated shorts), and radio and television commercials. ... George Jetson, with Star Trek: Voyager character Seven of Nine. ... The Jetsons was an animated prime-time television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1962 to 1963. ... Eightball is an alternative comic book series written and drawn by Daniel Clowes. ...
Joe?"Joe, the cameraman, isn't listening as he has gotten side-tracked by showing us some female aerobic dancers from the parade, and the narrator has to call him several times at increasing decibels to finally get his attention.
"Joe…Joe?""JOE!" Cameraman Joe has to be called and called until jolted from his fixations on the ladies and we take a fast train (the slow moving old steam locomotive) to the dockyards.
"Joe…Joe?""JOE!!!"Joe is awoken from his hypnotic state in the middle of a long shot of an extremely scanty bikini clinging to a slim young woman walking by the boats.
JoeMcDoakes (George O'Hanlon), unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees agents and tries out for casting directors and producers, and finally lands a role; the guy behind the 8-ball that is on the title frame of all of the JoeMcDoakes shorts.
JoeMcDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise.
JoeMcDoakes is new at selling vacuum cleaners and, despite using every technique and approach in the manual, he fails to sell even one, as his wife (Jane Harker) also refuses to buy one.
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