Bury the Axis (1943)

Directed by

Lou Bunin

Genre

animation

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

6 min

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a World War II stop-motion animated short meant to portray the Axis powers as evil. It was made in Britain to support the war effort by influencing public opinion.

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What happens

Bury the Axis a 1943 stop-motion animated short directed and animated by American Lou Bunin, a famous and successful puppeteer who had worked in Hollywood previously, was released by Paramount Pictures on February 3, 1943. It was part of a British plan to showcase the enemies of Britain as truly evil in the eyes of the public in order to continue the war effort. Kenneth Clark, as head of the Films Division of the Ministry of information that was re-established at the start of the war, argued in 1940 that the public must be convinced of German brutality, stating 'we should emphasise wherever possible the wickedness and evil perpetrated in the occupied countries' Though very little research and historiography has been produced on Bury the Axis, it is often remembered by historians and film and animation researchers as being 'memorable' (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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