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Weatherbeaten Melody (1943)

Directed by Hans Fischerkosen this animated short was written by Horst von Mollendorff with music from Lothar Bruhne. A bee finds an abandoned record player and uses it's stinger to play the record.

Made in Nazi Germany during the Second World War thankfully this cartoon is devoid of the ugly ideas of the period. It is suggested that the use of jazz music and the mixing of different species of bugs in the cartoon makes this an anti Nazi film, that seems a little too subtle or simplistic to me but is probably the only way you could safely criticise the regime from inside. The animation style is decent but not remarkable, roughly on par with what Disney were putting out at the time.

3/5