The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish musical film revue and was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues which had been produced by the major studios in the United States, such as ''Paramount on Parade'' (1930) and ''The Hollywood Revue of 1929''. The revue has a slim storyline about it being a television broadcast. The film consists of 19 comedy and music Vignette (literature) linked by running jokes of an aspiring William Shakespeare actor and technical problems with a viewer's TV set.