Storyline

With Steve Allen doing the weaving, four Mack Sennett shorts are woven together in this Sennett compilation; two are complete and the other two have only minor deletions. The shorts used were: "Sing, Bing, Sing" and "In the Blue of the Night", both starring Bing Crosby; "The Dentist" with W.C.Fields; and "The Singing Boxer" with Donald Novis. There were also ten songs, many that became hits (in their time) and one that later became Crosby's theme song.—Les Adams

Plot Keywords

host, television producer, technician, police officer, dentist, golfer, cheery, amusing, television studio, theater, recording studio, office, movies, comedy, television, advertising, actors, singing, quest, discovery, 1920s

Short Review

A beauty contest, religious processions, airflights, scientific experiments, aeronautics, war, Nixon and Rockefeller... All of this is the "additional material" for the "time capsule" Lipsett intended to construct for future generations. Edited magnificently, Lipsett attempts to represent society as an entity subject to transculturation and globalization in an era of technological progress while, once again, presenting brief glimpses of commentaries about Pantheism. Lipsett already had defied the line between documentary and fiction in film, but never trespassed it. This time, we have crossed the line, and make a temporary stop in the world of documentaries.99/100

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