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Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945
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Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945 Paperback - 2004

by Michael S. Shull/ David E. Wilt

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McFarland & Co Inc Pub, 2004. Paperback. New. 2nd sub edition. 256 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches.
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  • Title Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945
  • Author Michael S. Shull/ David E. Wilt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Co Inc Pub
  • Date 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-078641555X
  • ISBN 9780786415557 / 078641555X
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.12 x 6.1 x 0.56 in (23.16 x 15.49 x 1.42 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003024614
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.509

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From the publisher

The golden age of animation stretched from the early 1930s to the mid-1950s, with movie cartoons reaching an extraordinarily high level of artistry and technique--far higher than today's TV cartoons, for instance.

Nearly 1000 cartoons were produced by the seven major animation studios in the U.S. between January 1, 1939, and September 30, 1945--the immediate pre-World War II period up to the cessation of hostilities. More than a quarter of the cartoons substantially refer to the war, and thereby are invaluable in helping to understand American attitudes and Hollywood's reflection of them.

The meat of Doing Their Bit is a filmography with extremely detailed summaries of the 260 or so commercially produced, animated, war-related shorts, 1939-1945. There is also a good bit of overall commentary on these films as a group. Two chapters wrap up animated cartoons of World War I and the general political tenor of animated talkies of the 1930s. This edition also includes a new chapter on the outrageous government-sponsored Pvt Snafus.

About the author

Film historian and media propaganda specialist Michael S. Shull currently teaches film history at George Washington University and teaches mass communications at Montgomery College (both in the Washington, D.C., area). He lives in Germantown, Maryland. David E. Wilt is a librarian at the University of Maryland in College Park. Together they authored Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945 (1996). Wilt is also the author of The Mexican Filmography (2003).