The good animation by Harry Palmer makes this short feature worth watching despite a rather bland and predictable story. Palmer adds considerable detail for the time, even in some of the backgrounds, and his style also has a touch of wit at times.
The movie opens with a live hand that draws the opening setting, with quite a bit of detail, and sped up just a bit for effect. It sets a jaunty tone to the movie, since the device was still relatively new at the time. Most of the actual story follows a luckless man's bumbling attempts to collect on his insurance policy, and it has a couple of good moments, though it quickly becomes predictable.
Although Palmer was one of the more prolific animation pioneers, very little of his work has been preserved. It's always interesting to compare the styles and influences of the earliest motion picture animators, so it's fortunate that at least some of Palmer's work is still available.