Unable to find work on the Universal "lot," Slim and Bobby get jobs as cameramen to photograph the stars and notables at the Wampas Ball in 'Frisco. Slim encounters considerable difficulty with the collapsible legs of the tripod, and Bobby's insistent attempts to horn into the picture with Antonio Moreno, Wanda Wiley, Bryant Washburn, William Duncan, Edith Johnson, Norman Kerry, Hoot Gibson, William Desmond, Hobart Bosworth, Jack Hoxie, William S. Hart, Bebe Daniels, Jackie Coogan, Anna Q. Nilsson, J. Warren Kerrigan, Syd Chaplin, Ham Hamilton, Bull Montana, Barbara La Marr, Lew Cody, Fred Niblo, Enid Bennett, Ralph Lewis and Elliott Dexter. Eventually, they find the camera has not been loaded and, while attempting to put in a roll of negative, the film falls and rolls downhill. Ignited by a carelessly dropped match, it burns up and almost blows the two into mid-air. Later, the camera slides down the hill, hitting a traffic cop, who chases them into an outward-bound ferry. They return at last to Universal City with nothing to show for their trip but a demolished camera.