If only these "bloopers" actually were funny. I suppose the main reason Warner Brothers did a "Breakdowns" short every year during the 1930s and 1940s (the funnier ones, such as 1943, shockingly have no pages in IMDb) was the likelihood that one of their stars someday would become the glib, unflappable, goof-proof president of America, and it would be a hoot to have his or her early gaffs recorded for all posterity on a blooper real (even if she did rat out half of Hollywood to the Congressional Committee on UnAmerican Activities in order to jump start a political career). Warner Brothers, producer of these "Breakdown" reels, was well known in those dark times as the House of Snitches. Which is why it is so interesting for those of us with a sense of history to watch these "light-hearted" moments of "archival footage," knowing who was to be driven to the nut house or to suicide a few years later, and which of Hollywood's "biggest names" would be doing the driving. Maybe to young teens these 12.8 minutes of sound stage or back lot mayhem will prove funnier, since many of them won't know Bogart from a booger.
Review of Breakdowns of 1941
