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AWOL--All wrong old laddiebuck, Part 2

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Channel: Library of Congress · 2009 · Film & Animation

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SUMMARY
From J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress: Concerns American soldiers in Europe after the armstice [sic]. One goes AWOL with "Joy" (Miss AWOL) and after a series of mishaps with her, he is thrown in a guard house while his fellow soldiers go home.

From Origin of American animation 1900-1921 notes: A cautionary tale for troops impatient to return home after the November 1918 armistice.

Two World War I propaganda pieces, for home-front and overseas consumption, respectively. W.S.S. Thriftettes is a promotion for war savings stamps, reputed here to help confine Germanys Kaiser to a circus cage. AWOL, with simple but effective line drawing from animator-entrepreneur Charles Bowers, is a cautionary tale for troops impatient to return home after the November 1918 armistice and brings the "Joys and Gloom" to elaborate life.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : [American Motion Picture Co., ca. 1919].

NOTES
Copyright: no reg.

Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.

SUBJECTS
World War, 1914-1918--United States--Propaganda.
Soldiers--Conduct of life--Drama.
Absence without leave--Drama.
World War, 1914-1918--Armistices--Drama.
World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons--Drama.
United States.--Army--Drama.
Military offenses--Drama.
Military prisons--Europe--Drama.
Propaganda--Animation--Short.
War--Animation--Short.

DIGITAL ID
animp 4080s1 4080s2 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/animp.4080

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