Plot

A department store employee who carries mannequins tends to overindulge in alcohol. One evening after work, he sees his "coworkers" come to life in the store's display window.

Two window dressers in a department-store basement tease Joe the drunk janitor about the mannequins being alive. Later, at 2:30 a.m., Joe puts on a tux and clocks out. On the street, he passes the store windows and the mannequins come to life, putting on a song and dance revue for him. He encourages the women in one window to visit the men in the next. Two mannequins pair up and sing a duet with ice cream cones, a railroad porter, and dancing couples. The spooning couple then joins a window of campers, singing "Let us live in beautiful illusion." Then, the lovers stumble into a window of villains, including Joe's doppelganger. Is the couple in danger? What will Joe do?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

After being told a tall tale by two Department store window dressers, Joe the constantly inebriated janitor believes the mannequins come to life. A song and dance show follows, with the two principal mannequins visiting various tableaux: a cruise ship, the American West, and a graveyard filled with monsters and villains. It all comes to an end, however, when a passing policeman sees what Joe is up to.—garykmcd

Joe, a laborer at a store, is always drinking on the job. Two window dressers at the store want to trick Joe in believing, in his constantly inebriated state, that two of the mannequins in the storeroom are alive and in love: Shirley, dressed in a beautiful gown, and Frank, dressed as a marine captain. By the time Joe is heading home, he has traded in his work clothes for a top hat and tails with a mannequin, and the store windows are now fully dressed. To Joe, the mannequins come to life in song and dance with the primary story told being the love between Shirley and Frank. But as Shirley and Joe move from window to window, their love story is in jeopardy partly by Joe's actions, who doesn't want to be seen as the bad guy in the story. What drunken Joe does may have consequences in real life beyond what he sees of the "live" mannequins.—Huggo