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 (1931 film) March jokingly sent Tracy a telegram thanking him for the greatest boost to his reputation of his entire career. The opening credits use "Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565" by Johann Sebastian Bach. The film was the first film to be screened at the first edition of the Venice International Film Festival. Grossing $1.25 million, the film was a box office hit on par with the Universal monster films of the era, even considering that its $535,000 budget was high for a horror film at the time. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" received mostly positive reviews upon its