I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Robert Paul is a largely forgotten name today, but he was a major pioneer of British cinema, and was quick to grasp the commercial potential of cinema in ways that better known pioneers such as William Friese-Greene were not. He was more of a mechanic than a filmmaker making, with Birt Acres, his own camera on which to shoot films in 1895, and also Britain's first projector, the Animatograph, with which to screen them in 1896. Early in the 20th century he had a custom-made studio built in Muswell Hill.This short (one minute) comedy film is based on a popular music hall sketch. In the film, Professor Bakem offers an incubation process to make babies bigger, but his assistant accidentally starts a fire under the incubator, which produces the inevitable results. For a comedy, it isn't very funny.

This Robert Paul production directed by ex-stage magician Walter Booth is a comic warning about the effects of modernism. In this case, Professor Bakem offers his baby incubator, which will add a year's growth to an infant in a few minutes. But when the baby is put in the incubator, a fire starts, and when the baby is removed, it has the beard of an old man! Although the production values are not as elaborate as those that Melies was employing, the frenetic movements of the players is highly reminiscent of Melies' actors. Perhaps this was Paul's response to the great success of ex-stage magician Melies' movies. The film industry was already international in scope and Paul understood that you give the public what it wants.