A silent satire with hints of Monty Python.

Travel films were all the rage in the 1920s, and this short comedy pokes fun at the self-importance of the intrepid explorers who led the expeditions to exotic climes. The film is a slice of silent silliness, composed of a mish-mash of out-takes, home movie footage and jokey titles.

Holmes, Sweet and Holmes, the intrepid explorers, set forth on their expedition to Sagrada, sailing via the Bay of Biscay. After trekking through tropical rain forests, paddling in a canoe up the 'langurous Salamander river', riding on camels across the vast desert, they eventually reach the goal of their journey. As they wearily make their way homewards one by one they drop down dead in the desert, leaving their bones to whiten amid the illimitable sands... Comic names in the lists of credits and a mixture of real and fake shots with humourous sub-titles are used to obtain comic effects.