A most bizarre short. It's nothing more than a filmed performance of the attractive but very lightweight overture to the opera "Merry Wives of Windsor" by the romantic German composer, Otto Nicolai. The performance is OK, nothing special. But what makes this bizarre is that the short has no credits, NONE, nada, zilch -- neither orchestra nor conductor are ever identified, and the music itself is named only at the end as a kind of afterthought.
From the POV of MGM apparently the only thing that mattered about this short was that it is in CINEMASCOPE, and that in fact is the only information about the film that is provided. Clearly the audience is supposed to pay more attention to the shape and size of the screen than to anything that is taking place on the screen. Half a century later, when the technology of cinemascope is, while still impressive, pretty old hat, the audience is likely to watch this short and wonder what the hell is going on.