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Camouflage (1944)

Camouflage poster
Directed by
Frank Thomas
Genre
propaganda film
Country
United States
Runtime
20 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A chameleon teaches a group of airmen about camouflage techniques while they take shelter from Japanese air raids. It is an animated training film for the US military during World War Two.

educationalinformativeinstructionalwartimeneutralmatter-of-factdidacticdated

What happens

Camouflage is a 1944 American animated short film. It was produced by the First Motion Picture Unit, and was intended to train the United States Military in the use of camouflage against air-raids. In the short, a chameleon called "Now You See Him Now You Don't, Yehudi" explains the basics of camouflage to a group of airmen between air raids by Japanese planes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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