His creation is celebrated in a newsreel, showcasing the various uses for a portable hole: Rescuing a baby from a safe, cheating at your golf game and giving dogs a new place to bury their bones.

Spurred by the film, a thief steals a briefcase containing Calvin's portable holes and uses them for criminal purposes, including emptying Fort Knox and abducting a dancing girl from a burlesque house.

McKimson has begun work on the cartoon early that year, just before his unit was disbanded two months before the entire studio was closed that June.

While he was able to convince Warner Bros. to bring back his unit after the studio reopened, the lack of needed funds prevented him from retrieving his animators who were at this point scattered across the industry.

[3] While producer Edward Selzer refused to put up the short for consideration of an Academy Award, McKimson has said that his colleagues, Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng, praised the film.