A Smith called Pete produces and narrates this short subject in which we get to see children and baby animals doing very cute things, particularly bear cubs and baby chimpanzees.

Smith had been doing this sort of short for more than twenty years at this point, lending his trademarked snark, corny humor and weird voice to more than two hundred shorts. Most of them were comedies, a few were serious subjects. However, the economics of the movie industry had changed a lot in that time, and the corporate structure of MGM too. This is a cheap effort that makes use of mostly stock footage, and a brief black&white excerpt of a Tom & Jerry cartoon, produced by the studio's animation division. Smith's series of shorts would shut down the year after this short.

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