The Weakly Reporter (1944)
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- 7min
- Animation, Family
- 25 Mar 1944 (USA)
- Short
A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.
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Cast
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| Bea Benaderet | ... |
Lady Buying Steak / Saleslady / Narrator / Cabbie / Lady with Bottle (uncredited) (voice)
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| Mel Blanc | ... |
Cop / Man Sharing Car Parts / Meat Department Clerk / Robber / Politician (uncredited) (voice)
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Frank Graham | ... |
Various (uncredited) (voice)
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Directed by
| Chuck Jones | ... | (as Charles M. Jones) |
Written by
| Michael Maltese | ... | (story) |
Produced by
| Leon Schlesinger | ... | producer |
Music by
| Carl W. Stalling | ... | (uncredited) |
Editing by
| Treg Brown | ... | (uncredited) |
Art Department
| Ruth Cavert | ... | painter (uncredited) |
| Raynell Day | ... | inker (uncredited) |
| Florence Finkelhor | ... | assistant ink and paint supervisor (uncredited) |
| Frances Garcia | ... | painter (uncredited) |
| Auril Thompson | ... | inker (uncredited) |
| George Winkler | ... | ink and paint supervisor (uncredited) |
Sound Department
| Treg Brown | ... | sound effects editor (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
| John W. Burton | ... | animation camera (uncredited) |
| Ken Moore | ... | animation camera (uncredited) |
Animation Department
| Ben Washam | ... | animator |
| Robert Cannon | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Shamus Culhane | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Ken Harris | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Rudy Larriva | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Bernyce Polifka | ... | background artist (uncredited) / layout artist (uncredited) |
| Lloyd Vaughan | ... | animator (uncredited) |
Music Department
| Carl W. Stalling | ... | musical director |
| Milt Franklyn | ... | orchestrator (uncredited) |
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Distributors
- Warner Bros. (1944) (United States) (theatrical)
- Warner Bros. (1945) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1993) (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1998) (United States) (DVD)
- MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1998) (United States) (VHS)
- Warner Home Video (2006) (United States) (DVD) (included with "Passage to Marseille")
- Warner Home Video (2008) (United States) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2015) (United States) (Blu-ray) (included in "Passage to Marseille")
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Storyline
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This Chuck Jones animated short parodies the newsreels that were the standard fare for movie theater intermissions during The Second World War. Included are gags about the food and supply shortages civilians had to suffer through, as well as the increasing role women were playing in the American war effort.
Written by Jean-Marc Rocher |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | The WW2 era sight gags were familiar to cinema audiences at the time. But the patriotic message was clear, the home front needed to do its part. And War Bond purchases were part of the war effort. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Edited into Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons (1989). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Yankee Doodle See more » |