All out for "V"

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Movie
Original title All out for "V"
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1942
length 7 minutes
Rod
Director Emanuel "Mannie" Davis
script John Foster
production Paul Terry
for TerryToon Cartoons
music Philip A. Scheib

All Out for "V" is a 1942 American animated short film directed by Mannie Davis .

action

It's war and the forest is being bombed. The resistance is organized immediately and a War Production Office is established. From here, the animals of the forest are called together, and everyone does their part to defend the forest: eggs are stamped with a V by chickens , rabbits collect for the Red Cross , and mice use paint to darken the windows and even paint that Moon black.

Suddenly the hostile beetles, which resemble caricatures of Japanese, attack and attack a nearby field of flowers. They are driven away by the forest dwellers and escape to a lake. However, their leaf boats capsize the forest dwellers and the beetles are defeated. The boats of the forest dwellers form a V on the lake, which at the end fills the screen.

production

All Out for "V" was released on August 7, 1942 as part of the Terrytoons series. Critics praised the film as "one of the best patriotic and entertaining short films ever released".

Awards

All Out for "V" was nominated in 1943 for an Oscar in the category Best Animated Short Film, but could not prevail against Der Fuehrer's Face .

literature

  • All out for "V" . In: Michael S. Shull, David E. Wilt: Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945 . McFarland, Jefferson 2004, pp. 111-112.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "… one of the finest patriotic, and enterntaining shorts thus far released." Cf. Jack W. Alicoate: The 1943 Film daily year book of motion pictures . The Film Daily, 1943, p. 229.