Thursday, March 08, 2007

The Major Lied 'Til Dawn (1938)

This cartoon has excellent animation and many interesting gags. The humor is very lighthearted and harmless, with a lot of jokes based on analogies between urban or technological objects and natural or primitive ones (example: the elephant has a gear shifting handle). It's also interesting because it displays jokes that would be frowned upon today because of their ecological incorrectness (example: a bear is morphed into a coat); actually the whole subject of the cartoon would hardly be a viable choice in present days. As a final note, the copy I watched (shown on Cartoon Network) did not contain one the jokes mentioned in the IMDb Plot Summary section, namely the one in which a native uses his lower lip as a record player.
(I saw this film on November 18, 2006.)

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