Three long-bearded eggheads demonstrate their television system and then offer a cartoon travelogue of foreign locations in a series of blackout gags in this so-so Columbia Color Rhapsody.
Hollywood and the movie industry had long made its peace with radio broadcasting, but even though there had been television broadcasts for a dozen years by this point, it was still a laboratory curiosity at this stage, wild science fiction for most people. This made it suitable for Columbia's cartoon studio, which was going through a stage of no one quite knowing what they were doing. The jokes offered in this one have not aged well and the erratic productions would continue for another couple of years until Frank Tashlin was -- briefly -- put in charge.
Hollywood and the movie industry had long made its peace with radio broadcasting, but even though there had been television broadcasts for a dozen years by this point, it was still a laboratory curiosity at this stage, wild science fiction for most people. This made it suitable for Columbia's cartoon studio, which was going through a stage of no one quite knowing what they were doing. The jokes offered in this one have not aged well and the erratic productions would continue for another couple of years until Frank Tashlin was -- briefly -- put in charge.
