The first Our Gang short to be made with sound. The opening credit acknowledges this innovation: "Hal Roach presents His Rascals' Voices, in 'Small Talk'."
When the fire department responds to the alarm unknowingly triggered by the Rascals, the fire engines emerge into a wide shot of downtown Culver City, CA, looking northeast along Culver Blvd. from City Hall at the right to the Culver Hotel in the distance. Many of Hal Roach's shorts feature buildings in Culver City, as his studios were at Washington Blvd. and National Blvd., a few blocks northeast of the Civic Center.
Mary Ann Jackson was six when this was made. Wheezer was four.