[1] In 1932 Mack Sennett attempted to re-enter the feature-film market on a grand scale with Hypnotized.
Remembering the successful campaign for his very first feature-length comedy Tillie's Punctured Romance, which in 1914 was the longest comedy film ever produced, Sennett planned Hypnotized along similar lines as an epic production that would be shown first-run in select roadshow engagements.
Sennett announced that Hypnotized would run 15 reels, or two-and-a-half hours, more than twice the length of a typical comedy feature of the day.
[2] On February 20, 1932, Hollywood Citizen News reported that Sennett had been working on the script for Hypnotized since June 1931.
Production was completed in August 1932, but fell far short of Sennett's grandiose predictions; the finished film ran an ordinary 70 minutes and was released through ordinary channels by World Wide Pictures (the feature-film outlet for Sennett's short-subject distributor, Educational Pictures) in December 1932.