Fractured Flickers announcer extolling the virtues of the item being advertised, accompanied by darkly humorous clips. A fly-by-night real estate development, for example, was illustrated with clips of buildings being destroyed by a cyclone (from "Steamboat Bill, Jr." with Buster Keaton). And "This moment of softness (explosions, wild parties, etc.) has been brought to you by Bee. Bee, the only tissue woven in mid-air by bees!" Regular features were the "Minute Mysteries", featuring Stan Laurel as master detective Sherman Oaks (his scenes "fractured" from his 1925 short comedy, "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde"), and the weekly "tributes" to some American city. Each
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Haydon film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920 Haydon film) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1920 horror film directed and written by J. Charles Haydon. It is the second of three adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" to be released in 1920. The first 1920 adaptation is "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" starring John Barrymore, and the third is "Der Januskopf", directed by F. W. Murnau. The Haydon version is somewhat overshadowed by the version starring Barrymore, which was released by Paramount Pictures one month earlier. As the first transformation into Hyde