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This is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes short. There will be spoilers ahead:

This short is a "cheater", which means that a significant amount of the footage used in this short is footage from some other short which has been reused here to save time and/or money. There's footage originally done for a training film done by Warner as part of the "Private Snafu" series done under contract for the US Army and never released to theaters. So although the footage is reused here, most people in the audience never saw it in its earlier release. Color was added, as the Snafu shorts were done in black and white.

The premise here is similar, mosquitoes are in training for a mission against "the enemy"-a stock human male who serves as a foil for the mosquitoes. Done in documentary style (perhaps "mockumentary" would be more apt) this shows the mosquitoes from their recruitment through their training on to the big day of the attack. If you've seen many World War II pictures, much of what happens will be familiar, because many of the givens in those pictures are here.

The raid is a success, but the the aftermath is a bit problematic for the mosquitoes in an ending which is cute but underwhelming. The short can be found here and there and is worth watching.

. . . all about our upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti, Warner Bros.' crack team of Doomsday Prognosticators (aka, their Animated Shorts Seers division, aka, The Looney Tuners) take to their brushes, pens, paint, and ink to alert us to the Peril of Zika during this six-minute brief cartoon, OF THEE I STING. Narrator Robert C. Bruce details how these anthropomorphic instruments of the Devil, no doubt more advanced and miniaturized than the flying insect military spy drone cameras of EYE IN THE SKY, have been Weaponized to wipe out Western Civilization as we know it. Since the 2016 Rigged Election, all of the fake news (aka, Tweets) coming out of our compromised White House have concerned bankrupting our hospitals, playing "Simon Says" during the National Anthem, canceling Medicaid to pay off the Kremlin for cracking the Racist Electoral College, making life miserable for Gays, Hispanics, Women, and all Thoughtful People, with nary a word about The Scourge of Zika. That's because Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin is counting upon the Pinhead Vote to Rig our next election!

This short opens with the sight of what appears to be a squadron of bombers flying across the sky; the narrator explains how these are heading to strike against the enemy... It then becomes apparent that the 'bombers' are in fact mosquitoes and their target is a man. He is well protected having a fly swat and bug spray as well as a mesh window. The action then jumps back and we are shown the training that the mosquitoes are pit through; going through assault causes with flyswats and swinging over flypaper; only the best are deemed fit for action. When the target is selected they head off on there sardine tin aircraft carriers and launch a devastating attack on the poor man's posterior!

While this Warner Brothers short doesn't contain any of their regular characters it is a lot of fun. I liked how the only speaking was done by the narrator; the mosquitoes just buzzed. There were plenty of good laughs; my favourite being when the reconnaissance mosquito crash landed and his camera was taken away on a stretcher before a daddy longlegs came and picked him up. Made in 1946 the wartime references are obvious but remain inoffensive as the target was just an ordinary person not a coarse stereotype of a wartime enemy. If you are a fan of animated shorts I'd certainly recommend this less well known example.