Sunday Calm

The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically charming effort from Our Gang.

One of the pleasures of this series for me, particularly in its early days, is its apparent plotlessness, as incident follows incident, connected in a way, but not really apparent, like unbolting the wheel only to have it collapse five minutes later. When you're a kid, these things have only a loose connection, apparent only after, and that's the way these things unfold in their idyllic fashion. It's a low-key effort and we watch as the kids go swimming and catch frogs, until the adults finally show up and bring the rain storms with them.

Oh, well. They meant well.