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Chuck Jones

Films

Hell-Bent for Election

Chuck Jones took a break from directing Looney Tunes cartoons to make this labor-sponsored film for Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 Presidential campaign. It was produced by Industrial Film and Poster Service which, later rechristened United Productions of America (UPA), earned animation immortality with...
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Hell-Bent for Election

(1944) 13 min

American Animation

Chuck Jones

Political campaign cartoon for Franklin Roosevelt sponsored by the United Auto...

Genres

Fantasy / Allegory
International / Americas / North American / American
Animation / Cel/Hand-Drawn
Short / Documentary
Documentary / Political
Documentary / Propaganda
War / WWII

Recent Reviews

kshy

Hell-Bent for Election

WOW on so many levels. Propaganda from the good guys. This is a time machine. Use it to go back to an era that we think differently about now than...

Jilara

Hell-Bent for Election

Wow, a Jim Crow car on the Defeatist Limited, along with some old favorites like Hot Air... Amazing how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Hmm,...