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Weapon of War Story Board (1944)

submitted by schmawy

1 decade 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago

"My great uncle Harold "Al" Curry served as a storyboard artist under Capt. Theodor Geisel(Dr. Seuss) during WW2 and left me a lot of Private Snafu production art and this bound storyboard...thought it would be interesting for folks to see this short's storyboard. The film still exists in the National Archive, though prob no one has seen it in 60 years. With all the racial prejudice still in the world... in the US... it still is a pretty relevant message." -[YT]

2 Comments

kronosposeidon

says...

I found it interesting that at the very time they were decrying Nazi racism in this film, they also depicted the Japanese (at 2:28) with stereotypical racist features, i.e., the bucktooth Asian.

A lot of Americans don't like this song (written and performed by an American band), for reasons that will be readily apparent at the 13 second mark:

But I find it almost impossible to get past the hypocrisy I found in this video.

Not bagging on you, brother schmawy. It's still a great find, historically speaking.

Hive13

says...

Krono, what is clearly hypocrisy today was a national collective ideal when this was created.

Our country was segregated, we had a clearly defined enemy in the Axis powers and Americans lived in fear.