War Dogs (1943 film)
| War Dogs | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | William Hanna and Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Story by | William Hanna and Joseph Barbera |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by |
Pete Burness Kenneth Muse Irven Spence Jack Zander Additional animation: Ray Patterson (uncredited) |
| Studio | MGM Cartoons |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
War Dogs is 1943 American one-reel World War II animated cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and released with the movie Best Foot Forward by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Its main theme is war dogs training that is shown with one yellow dim-witted dog.
The cartoon is a mockumentary about the secret canine war unit "The WOOFs"'s day regime. Camera shows us many war dogs (including Spike from Tom & Jerry (voiced by Billy Bletcher) and the St. Bernard from Puttin' on the Dog) sleeping and doing laughable things. Camera concentrates on one yellow dog, Private Smiley, sleeping in its tent and dreaming about chasing caricatured Japanese soldier. Then, it wakes up and marks the fourth Japanese beaten in his slumber. Then, the trumpet rings a signal to gather up, and all dogs expect the yellow one run on signal. The yellow dog sleeps so tightly that a man douses it with water. Then, a roll call goes. All dogs except the yellow one bark to roll call. Then, commander orders a yellow dog to march and then to do various commands with funny effort.
Then, the yellow dog sits in cabinet trying to distinguish the military things and not-military things again with funny efforts. At one moment, frame with pin-up girl appears and dog gazes on it even when next frame is shown by moving the border of it. When frame with Hitler is shown, dog tears apart the frames with anger and makes inscription "BUY BONDS" from frame remains.
Then, we see a message delivery training. The yellow dog carries a letter and tiny dog carries a P.S message (a size gag).
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