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Director: Jack King
Release Date: July 30, 1942
Stars: Minnie Mouse, Pluto
Rating: ★★★
Review:
‘Out of the Frying Pan into the Firing Line’ is a short propaganda film aimed at American housewives.
In this propaganda short, Minnie is just about to give Pluto some hot bacon grease, when the narrator interrupts, telling housewives of America to save their kitchen fats in order to deliver them at a “neighborhood meat dealer, who is patriotically cooperating”. The fats are apparently used to make glycerine, which is used in ammunition.
This short contains a rare picture of Mickey as a soldier at the front. Otherwise, Mickey was left out of the propaganda, leaving that role to Donald Duck.
‘Out of the Frying Pan into the Firing Line’ is an interesting example of how the American government tried to make every citizen help in the war effort. It shows how World War II entered the life of the average citizen: even kitchen grease could be useful… It offers no one-liner, however, at the likes of the contemporary slogans ‘Save Your Scraps to Bomb the Japs’ or ‘Is Your Trip Really Necessary?”
Watch ‘Out of the Frying Pan into the Firing Line’ yourself and tell me what you think:
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