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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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