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. Heckyl and Mr. Hype Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype is a 1980 film directed by Charles B. Griffith, starring Oliver Reed and Sunny Johnson. The film is a reversal of the "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" story, about a malformed doctor who drinks a potion and becomes a handsome (and violent) ladies' man. Griffith says the film's title was one of five joke titles he originally came up with to show Francis Ford Coppola. He then showed them to Menahem Golan, who was talking to Griffith about writing "The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington". After that fell through, Golan