- Blunderer Robert Benchley is going to show some house guests the film he and his wife took on a vacation trip. He sets up the projector and the reel begins...and nothing good happens for Benchley from this point.
- A tongue-in-cheek look at the making and showing of home movies. An everyman sits with editing equipment amidst piles of loose film. He explains to us the ease and fun of putting home movies together. In a flashback, he takes us to a recent dinner party at his home where he narrated a showing of footage from a family trip to a lake. Parts are dull or out of focus, scenes run backwards, principles (such as a child) are obscured, heads are cropped by the top of the frame, and he and his wife differ over details. Will anyone be left when the show ends?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
- This MGM comedic short with humorist Robert Benchley is all about how to make home movies. He gathers a group of friends in his living room after dinner and shows them his films from their most recent family holiday. He talks about how he took the shots, the type of lens he used and why certain shots turned out the way they did. Of course the film is terrible with shots out of focus, film running in reverse, shots taken so far from the subject so as to make their purpose invisible. When the film is over, there is only one person left in the living room and he is sound asleep!—garykmcd
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