School's Out
About School's Out
Jackie Cooper wants school kept open all summer so Miss Crabtree will not marry and have to quit teaching. A man named Jack asks for her at school. The children, sure he is a suitor, tell him she has a wooden leg, seven husbands, and twenty-one children, then steal his clothes while he swims. The oral quiz collapses because Bonedust sold answers from a minstrel joke book. Miss Crabtree explains that Jack is her brother. He walks back in a dress, and the children arrive wearing his suit and carrying his money.
Cast & crew
More about School's Out
Robert F. McGowan directed. H. M. Walker wrote the titles and dialogue. Hal Roach produced it and MGM released it on 22 November 1930. Art Lloyd photographed it. It is the 102nd Our Gang short and the second with June Marlowe as Miss Crabtree, after Teacher's Pet. Bobby Young's first Our Gang talkie.
Themes
Background
A 1930 Our Gang talkie that uses the practice of dismissing a woman teacher when she married.
Making
Hal Roach's studio shot it as a sound short built around June Marlowe's roadster and the schoolroom.
Look
Art Lloyd shot the roadster ride, the lake, and the classroom quiz.
Music
Leroy Shield and Marvin Hatley are credited with the music.
Preservation
The copyright lapsed in the 1960s, and the short is in the public domain in the United States. Television prints cut the racial jokes.
Notes
- Creighton Hale plays Jack Crabtree, the brother.
- The gang's last teacher, Miss Magillicuddy, left when she married. The short treats that as the rule for women teachers.
- When King World put it on television in The Little Rascals package, the minstrel-book scene and other racial jokes were cut.
- The copyright lapsed in the 1960s. Bear Shooters, Our Gang Follies of 1938, and Waldo's Last Stand fell into the public domain the same way.
Scenes
- The children tell Jack that Miss Crabtree has a wooden leg and seven husbands.
- Farina recites a minstrel gag instead of the Gettysburg Address.
- Jack returns in a dress while the children wear his clothes.
Influenced by
- Teacher's Pet (1930)
