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Tokio Jokio (1943)

7 min  -  Animation | Short | Comedy  -   15 May 1943 (USA)
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A "captured" Japanese newsreel. Civilian defense shows an aircraft spotter painting spots on aircraft and a fire prevention HQ that already burned down... See full summary »

Director:

Norm McCabe

Writer:

Don Christensen (story)

Stars:

Mel Blanc
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Cast

Uncredited cast:
Mel Blanc ...
Nipponews Buzzard / Japanese Narrator / Air Raid / Prof. Tojo / Red Togoson / Admiral Yamamoto / Lord Hee Haw / Human Torpedo (voice) (uncredited)
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A "captured" Japanese newsreel. Civilian defense shows an aircraft spotter painting spots on aircraft and a fire prevention HQ that already burned down. Kitchen Hints shows the construction of a sandwich from bread and meat ration cards. Poisonalities in the News shows Yamamoto walking on stilts and boasting of plans for the White House, contrasted with the room reserved for him: an electric chair. A submarine, launched 3 weeks ahead of schedule, is still being built. A plane's new landing gear is a little man on a tricycle. A minesweeper uses a giant broom. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>  

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Japanese | Electric Chair | Submarine | Newsreel | Minesweeper  | See more »

Genres:

Animation | Short | Comedy | Family

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

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Leon Schlesinger Studios See more »
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Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's boast to personally dictate peace terms in the White House was an inversion of his actual meaning in real life. The quote, which had leaked to the United States, was actually intended by Yamamoto to impress upon the Imperial Japanese High Command of the monumental task they had set before them -- Yamamoto was not promising to demand terms in the White House, he was threatening that the only way to win the war was to do that, with all the costs in life and matériel that would entail. See more »

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"Funeral March"
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Music by Frédéric Chopin See more »