This eleven minute short was produced by MGM as a promotional piece for the famous movie "Boys Town" which starred Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney. Apparently, studios made these promotional pieces to encourage audiences to see the movie whenever it arrived in their home town, but there is no apparent tie-in to the movie itself. This was very subtle marketing indeed, but apparently movie audiences in 1938 did not need their marketing messages shoved down their throats like the viewing public of 2006. The short is extremely well-done and it affords the viewer an opportunity to see the founder of Boys Town, Edward Joseph Flanagan, himself. A concise history of Boys Town is presented, starting with the renting of a home using a borrowed $90 on December 12th, 1917, subsequent relocation into larger quarters over the years, and illustrations of the various activities of the children within the home during the years until the production of this little film in 1938. The short is aptly titled because it is eerie to watch the many adult activities which the children perform in the film. You will see them setting type on a Linotype machine, a comparatively sophisticated machine for the era. The film emphasizes the many activities done by the boys to insure successful operation of the facility. For those of us who are not accustomed to seeing youthful citizens performing adult jobs, thoughts creep into our minds about child-labor laws, but due to the excellent reputation of the Boys Town organization over the years, we are certain the denizens of Boys Town were not abused in any way. All in all, this is an excellent historical piece about a significant part of American history and about a remarkable man who created an organization which has created remarkable opportunities for thousands of young children who would have had little to look forward to if Father Flanagan had not followed his vision for their future.