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 Paramount film) critics in the trade media and in fan-based publications generally gave high marks to "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and, not surprisingly, focused chiefly on John Barrymore. The popular trade paper "Variety" described the production as a “fine and dignified presentation” with an “excellent” performance by Barrymore despite what the paper viewed as the absurd nature of the plot: In the weeks following the release of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in March 1920, media reports about the box-office receipts being generated by the film and the exorbitant prices being spent by “movie palaces” to rent it attest to the