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 (1941 film) monthly did, though, find the film’s plot passé and Tracy’s Hyde far too understated in appearance to be effective: Another fan-based publication, "Modern Screen", was less subtle in its November 1941 review of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", calling the film “quite the oddest picture of the year”. The magazine, in part, considered the remake “funniest when apparently it is trying to be most serious and never so routine as when it is trying hardest to be different.” With regard to more recent critical responses to this version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", American film reviewer and historian Leonard