A Vitaphone Pictorial Revue No. 2-10 (1938)
** (out of 4)
This series is without question one of the strangest from any of the major studios simply because you never really know what you're going to get and after you're done viewing them you're left asking yourself what the entire point was. This time out we get two separate stories and a preview of a third. The first is "Grass Growers," features narration by Howard Claney who talks about why beavers are so important and why they shouldn't be killed. The second story is "Mallet Swingers" and this features narration by Clem McCarthy who takes a look at polo and the training that goes into it. I can't say that either story is all that entertaining and the fact is that we get so little information about both it really does seem as if the studio just had some extra material lying around so they just threw it together to create this short. At just 8-minutes the thing is too short to be a complete bomb but I can't say there's any real reason to watch this unless you're like me and have to watch every short you can.
** (out of 4)
This series is without question one of the strangest from any of the major studios simply because you never really know what you're going to get and after you're done viewing them you're left asking yourself what the entire point was. This time out we get two separate stories and a preview of a third. The first is "Grass Growers," features narration by Howard Claney who talks about why beavers are so important and why they shouldn't be killed. The second story is "Mallet Swingers" and this features narration by Clem McCarthy who takes a look at polo and the training that goes into it. I can't say that either story is all that entertaining and the fact is that we get so little information about both it really does seem as if the studio just had some extra material lying around so they just threw it together to create this short. At just 8-minutes the thing is too short to be a complete bomb but I can't say there's any real reason to watch this unless you're like me and have to watch every short you can.
