The Winged Scourge (1943) Poster

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5/10
Ew!
CuriosityKilledShawn15 August 2004
For the love of God, don't watch this while eating dinner. I made that fatal mistake. It's not a pleasant cartoon, it's a nasty little public service announcement warning of the dangers of mosquito breeding in your back yard. If you're quite squeamish when it comes to bugs (as I am) it'll make you completely paranoid.

The horrid detail it goes into, especially the cross section close-ups of a mosquito biting some guy, really give you the heebie-jeebies. A good thing the Seven Dwarfs are so obsessed with cleaning up and totally eliminate every possible mosquito breeding ground from their home. According to this short they can breed almost anywhere. Needless to say, I cleaned my kitchen and bathroom right after watching this, while struggling to keep my dinner down.
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6/10
The Winged Scourge
CinemaSerf9 February 2024
Walt Disney turns his hand to government information animation in this initially rather oppressively narrated film about the anopheles mosquito. This eponymous scourge is responsible for the spread of malaria and this destroys lives and livelihoods. How to stop it? Well for that, he drafts in the help of the seven dwarves who proceed to show us how - in not a terribly ecologically sound fashion - we can kill their larvae in stagnant ponds, spray them out of existence in the nooks and crannies of our homes and we can use door and window screens as well as muslin to protect ourselves from their pesky pervasiveness. It's entirely too simplistic, but it does raise awareness of this disease in an entertaining enough fashion with "Dopey" getting most of the laughs as he and his pet toad do some bug-management. Worth a watch, but hardly scientific.
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9/10
This brief film deserves high marks because . . .
pixrox129 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
. . . it is such a blatant example of the nefarious influence the Dizzy Corporation has been upon our fragile planet during the past century. During the pernicious "educational" brainwashing session titled THE WINGED SCOURGE, Dizzy pictures seven happy dwarfs blissfully spraying "Paris Green" here, there and everywhere. What's wrong with this? Paris Green, aka copper (II) acetate triarsenite, derived from arsenic trioxide, is a highly toxic poison best known for being splashed about by the Axis of Evil Italian thugs in sewers during World War Two to allegedly to kill rats (but actually to eradicate Rome's Resistance Freedom Fighters hiding out down there). What kind of satanic twisted Evil-Doers would picture beloved cartoon characters urging parents to liberally douse their little one's playtime, dining and sleeping areas with one of the most lethal poisons chemists can concoct? Only the doomed minions of Old Scratch could perpetrate such a Crime against Humanity.
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