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Article: Humour as a strategy in propaganda film: the case of a French cartoon from 1944.
- Article from:
- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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Humour as a strategy in propaganda film: the case of a French cartoon from 1944 (*)
Christian Delporte (+)
The collective imagination of war-time France will form the basis of this study, with specific reference to genre which has been greatly neglected by historians: the animated film. The discussion will focus on a very particular cartoon film, which was used as a vehicle for propaganda. The document in question, entitled Nimbus Libere ('Nimbus Liberated') was screened in France in 1944. It is a short (1 minute 30 seconds), black and white film -- since only the Americans worked in Technicolor for cartoons -- with a simple theme: the bombing of French ...