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 he was Hype, he didn't know how to do it… Reed played Hype as Oliver Reed, slow and ponderous. He didn't understand my interpretation, so the picture jars, and half the people get up and walk out. 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