This is a nicely done second tier World War II propaganda short from Columbia. There will be mild spoilers ahead:
During WWII, pretty much all the studios produced war-related shorts intended to boost morale on the home front. In this instance, three animals (a vulture, gorilla and hyena) represent Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. They begin bullying the other animals and generally take over, taking everything for themselves.
Fed up with this, the other animals band together to fight their common enemies. The short is filled with visual and musical cues, with the "V for victory" symbol featured prominently in everything from rabbit ears to footprints in the snow and "dit dit dit DAH" showing up as a musical call to victory more than once.
For Columbia, this is actually a fairly decent, though predictable, cartoon. Sadly, Columbia shorts are by and large unavailable. One can hope that this lack will be rectified someday. Worth watching.
During WWII, pretty much all the studios produced war-related shorts intended to boost morale on the home front. In this instance, three animals (a vulture, gorilla and hyena) represent Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. They begin bullying the other animals and generally take over, taking everything for themselves.
Fed up with this, the other animals band together to fight their common enemies. The short is filled with visual and musical cues, with the "V for victory" symbol featured prominently in everything from rabbit ears to footprints in the snow and "dit dit dit DAH" showing up as a musical call to victory more than once.
For Columbia, this is actually a fairly decent, though predictable, cartoon. Sadly, Columbia shorts are by and large unavailable. One can hope that this lack will be rectified someday. Worth watching.