So Much for So Little (1949)

Directed by

Chuck Jones

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

11 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated short film explains the importance of public health services. It shows how preventive care can improve lives and reduce costs.

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What happens

So Much for So Little is a 1949 American animated short documentary film directed by Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng. In 1950, it won an Oscar at the 22nd Academy Awards for Documentary Short Subject, tying with A Chance to Live. It was created by Warner Bros. Cartoons for the United States Public Health Service. As a work of the United States Government, the film is in the public domain. The Academy Film Archive preserved So Much for So Little in 2005. Produced during the Harry S. Truman administration, it attained renewed relevance during the modern Medicare for All movement in the United States, nearly seven decades later. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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