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Warner Brothers During the Second World War.
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- Bugs Bunny Bond Rally 194?
In this cartoon, we can see a slightly normal Bond Rally, with the added punch that only a cartoon can bring to the screen. Within this cartoon, Bugs Bunny sings us a song that tells us to buy our piece of freedom when we see, “…the tall man, with the high hat, and the whiskers on his chin…” If we also pay close attention to this cartoon’s background, of which there are two significant ones, we can see, in the first, a backdrop of George Washington and his buddies crossing the river of victory, just that in this context he is held up aloft in the blue sky and the clouds. The scene sort of puts Washington up in the heavens and gives the feeling of faith in liberty, and the American forefathers who strove for freedom. In the second major background of this cartoon, there is a shot of the whole mighty American military. With this background there are planes streaking upwards into the sky, similar to birds, and there are huge warships in the bay. There is also a shimmer of light on the ocean behind all of the military crafts, pointing out that the more war bonds that we buy, the closer to the light of freedom and peace we will be.
- Scrap Happy Daffy 194?
Beginning the cartoon, we are told to get our tin out, our brass out, our iron out, and most of all to get the lead out of our butts and get our scrap metal out and into depots where it can be recycled to build tanks, trucks, heavy artillery, and ammunition. Next we are bombarded with a very promotional song that tells us that we are in it (the war) to win, and to do our part. Next, Daffy proceeds to hastily run through a large assortment of goods that can, and should, be dropped off ant the local scrap pile.
Daffy proceeds to rub the essence of the song into a horse; actually a horse’s ass, that then, through the miracles of cartoons, morphs into a mug shot of Hitler, who then in a stereotypical manner spastically throws a fit, and orders the stockpile to be destroyed. He sends a tin-eating goat. The goat coincidentally gets indigestion, which, in turn, causes Daffy, the good-natured American, to offer some help. Daffy notices the goat’s Nazi badge, and takes to the trenches. In the first of the scuffles Daffy gets the piss beaten out of him. Then in some sort of illumination, Daffy notices all of his proud American forefathers up in the clouds, who tell him, with “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah” playing in the background, that “Americans Don’t Give Up.” Daffy then receives the power of America to become Super American, after which, he is able to beat the hell out of the goat, and the Nazi submarine, which eventually ends up on the scrap pile. The cartoon ends with Daffy thinking it was all a dream, but it wasn’t, because the Germans are still in their Submarine, and they proceed to tell Daffy that the next time he (America) dreams (goes to war) to include them out, mainly because no one wants to mess with American patriotism and gusto, and commitment to Liberty and Freedom.
- Tokio Jokio 194?
This particular cartoon is a prime example of counter propaganda. It starts out with an announcer explaining to the viewers that the film has just been acquired and is a good example of Japa-Nazi propaganda, but in fact it is American propaganda that portrays the Japanese as a lower civilisation, and backwards in most cases. An example of this would be the cartoonists version of Japanese air-raid sirens. The sirens are actually the screams two Japanese males, who take turns poking each other in the butt with an oversized needle.
All of the character references by the cartoonists show the Japanese as always smiling with huge buckteeth, and grossly over stereotyped. Over stereotyping like this will give the American public an impression of the Japanese as sub-standard human beings, and pushovers in war. That is all I have to say about this gross and hugely racist American propaganda film.
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In this cartoon, we can see a slightly normal Bond Rally, with the added punch that only a cartoon can bring to the screen. Within this cartoon, Bugs Bunny sings us a song that tells us to buy our piece of freedom when we see, “…the tall man, with the high hat, and the whiskers on his chin…” If we also pay close attention to this cartoon’s background, of which there are two significant ones, we can see, in the first, a backdrop of George Washington and his buddies crossing the river of victory, just that in this context he is held up aloft in the blue sky and the clouds. The scene sort of puts Washington up in the heavens and gives the feeling of faith in liberty, and the American forefathers who strove for freedom. In the second major background of this cartoon, there is a shot of the whole mighty American military. With this background there are planes streaking upwards into the sky, similar to birds, and there are huge warships in the bay. There is also a shimmer of light on the ocean behind all of the military crafts, pointing out that the more war bonds that we buy, the closer to the light of freedom and peace we will be.
Beginning the cartoon, we are told to get our tin out, our brass out, our iron out, and most of all to get the lead out of our butts and get our scrap metal out and into depots where it can be recycled to build tanks, trucks, heavy artillery, and ammunition. Next we are bombarded with a very promotional song that tells us that we are in it (the war) to win, and to do our part. Next, Daffy proceeds to hastily run through a large assortment of goods that can, and should, be dropped off ant the local scrap pile.
Daffy proceeds to rub the essence of the song into a horse; actually a horse’s ass, that then, through the miracles of cartoons, morphs into a mug shot of Hitler, who then in a stereotypical manner spastically throws a fit, and orders the stockpile to be destroyed. He sends a tin-eating goat. The goat coincidentally gets indigestion, which, in turn, causes Daffy, the good-natured American, to offer some help. Daffy notices the goat’s Nazi badge, and takes to the trenches. In the first of the scuffles Daffy gets the piss beaten out of him. Then in some sort of illumination, Daffy notices all of his proud American forefathers up in the clouds, who tell him, with “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah” playing in the background, that “Americans Don’t Give Up.” Daffy then receives the power of America to become Super American, after which, he is able to beat the hell out of the goat, and the Nazi submarine, which eventually ends up on the scrap pile. The cartoon ends with Daffy thinking it was all a dream, but it wasn’t, because the Germans are still in their Submarine, and they proceed to tell Daffy that the next time he (America) dreams (goes to war) to include them out, mainly because no one wants to mess with American patriotism and gusto, and commitment to Liberty and Freedom.
This particular cartoon is a prime example of counter propaganda. It starts out with an announcer explaining to the viewers that the film has just been acquired and is a good example of Japa-Nazi propaganda, but in fact it is American propaganda that portrays the Japanese as a lower civilisation, and backwards in most cases. An example of this would be the cartoonists version of Japanese air-raid sirens. The sirens are actually the screams two Japanese males, who take turns poking each other in the butt with an oversized needle.
All of the character references by the cartoonists show the Japanese as always smiling with huge buckteeth, and grossly over stereotyped. Over stereotyping like this will give the American public an impression of the Japanese as sub-standard human beings, and pushovers in war. That is all I have to say about this gross and hugely racist American propaganda film.
Back to the Media Homepage.