Watching Changing Of The Guard after over 70 years it's fairly obvious that Jack Warner was trying to build Sybil Jason into another Shirley Temple. He would have been better advised to have concentrated on making her the first Sybil Jason.
The short subject consists of Sybil visiting her grandfather who was a colonel in a Highland Regiment back in the Boer War days. The Colonel is Halliwell Hobbes and he reminisces about his farewell dinner with his officers where we get to see and hear Gordon Hart and future Sky King, Kirby Grant, treat us with some old Scottish airs.
Then afterwards Jason falls asleep where she imagines herself in the regiment and she leads a group of dancing grenadiers in the title song of the short subject.
It's not that it isn't well done, it most certainly is, but you would think that Warner might have tried for some original material rather than copy what Darryl Zanuck was doing at Fox. But that's what they did back in the day.
The short subject consists of Sybil visiting her grandfather who was a colonel in a Highland Regiment back in the Boer War days. The Colonel is Halliwell Hobbes and he reminisces about his farewell dinner with his officers where we get to see and hear Gordon Hart and future Sky King, Kirby Grant, treat us with some old Scottish airs.
Then afterwards Jason falls asleep where she imagines herself in the regiment and she leads a group of dancing grenadiers in the title song of the short subject.
It's not that it isn't well done, it most certainly is, but you would think that Warner might have tried for some original material rather than copy what Darryl Zanuck was doing at Fox. But that's what they did back in the day.