Mr. Benchley lectures the audience, in his patented befuddled manner, on how to make home movies. He proceeds to show some awful home pictures with a running monologue on why the subject turned out so badly. The piece is one of a long series he did, beginning with the recording of his stage act 'The Treasurer's Report', winning an Oscar for HOW TO SLEEP and continuing on, in various formats, for MGM and Paramount through his death.
My parents used to take home movies and, for some time, insisted on exhibiting them to people. As they usually concerned the rather embarrassing things my brother and I did when we were toddlers, we managed to grab and destroy the relevant reels a couple of decades ago.
Nowadays, of course, everything is on computers and the internet, where nothing ever dies. I feel for you.
My parents used to take home movies and, for some time, insisted on exhibiting them to people. As they usually concerned the rather embarrassing things my brother and I did when we were toddlers, we managed to grab and destroy the relevant reels a couple of decades ago.
Nowadays, of course, everything is on computers and the internet, where nothing ever dies. I feel for you.