The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Besides running the first American movie cartoon factory, John Randolph Bray produced educational and industrial films; in fact, Jam Handy, which was a major producer of industrial films, particularly for General Motors' Chevrolet division, began as a branch of Bray's organization.Bray produced travelogues -- or perhaps simply put his name on them and passed them on to the distributors -- into the 1930s, long past the time when he had given up actual production of cartoons. Earlier, he produced a good line of educational films, like this one, which explains how a telephone works through a mixture of live action and animation. It's a good effort and pretty much agrees with what I was taught in class half a century ago when we took a telephone apart.