Spooky Hooky

Duration: 11 min.

Genre: Educational

Creator: Hal Roach

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: A circus is coming to town, and the gang is dejected because they have to be in school. But not to worry. One of them draws up a fake absence note to get them all out of school and goes to put it on Miss Jones's desk. However, while he's doing that, Miss Jones tells the rest of the gang of her plans to take the whole class to the circus. Before they could recover both from surprise and the note, the door to the school is closed and locked, and the live-in custodian will not let them back in. With no choice but to get the note back, the gang breaks into the school in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, despite recovering the note, it storms that night and they all get sick from it, and are not allowed to attend school the next day anyways. Written by lentzj1@tds.net , When a circus comes to town, the gang leaves phony excuses for the teacher, only to find that the whole class is scheduled to visit the circus. Features Our Gang.

Complete Record: A circus is coming to town, and the gang is dejected because they have to be in school. But not to worry. One of them draws up a fake absence note to get them all out of school and goes to put it on Miss Jones's desk. However, while he's doing that, Miss Jones tells the rest of the gang of her plans to take the whole class to the circus. Before they could recover both from surprise and the note, the door to the school is closed and locked, and the live-in custodian will not let them back in. With no choice but to get the note back, the gang breaks into the school in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, despite recovering the note, it storms that night and they all get sick from it, and are not allowed to attend school the next day anyways. Written by lentzj1@tds.net , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.