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- DirectorBasil WrangellStarsJohn NesbittKai-Shek ChiangAdolf HitlerFollowing Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage war against the U.S. Using animation, the first part of this film dispels these rumors by showing that the U.S. had more raw materials and more fighting ships. The narrator also cautions moviegoers against spreading rumors (which are often initiated by enemy infiltrators to create fear and dissention) and believing everything they read in the newspapers. Just because "they say" something, that doesn't make it true.Portuguese Title: "Sr. Tagarela".
Original Title: "Mr. Blabbermouth!"
Language: English.
Subtitles: Portuguese.
Color, 19 min. - DirectorAllan KenwardStarsJohn LitelDouglas FowleyStephen McNallyThis Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.Portuguese Title: "Para o Bem de Todos".
Original Title: "For the Common Defense!"
Language: English.
Subtitles: Portuguese.
B&W, 21 min. - DirectorJack CummingsStarsSidney TolerFranklin PangbornEmerson TreacyThe staff at Drake's Department Store is exasperated because Mr. Drake, the store owner and president, has let his adult son Freddy run rampant at the store despite knowing that he is a troublemaker. Freddy has made some unilateral changes at the store without his father's knowledge. Some such changes are to replace many of the floor staff with a bevy of chorus girls, to convert the nursery into a nightclub, and to make bargain shopping a spectator sport. As such, Drake senior, a conservative man who believes in tradition, decides personally to investigate. Which Drake will win by making the other see the world of the store through his eyes?Portuguese Title: "Loja de Novidades".
Original Title: "Over the Counter"
Language: English.
Color, 18 min. - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsGrigoriy AleksandrovAleksandr AntonovSergei EisensteinFilmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film.Portuguese Title: "O Diário de Glumov".
English Title: "Glumov's Diary"
Language: Silent.
B&W, 5 min. - DirectorWilliam JoyceBrandon OldenburgMorris Lessmore, a young writer, wanders into a mysterious library after a storm devastates his city. The library is home to magical flying books that literally come to life.Portuguese Title: "Os Livros Voadores do Sr. Morris".
Original Title: "The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore"
Language: Silent.
Color, 15 min.