Tokio Jokio, 1943, World War 2 Era Propaganda Cartoon
Please SUPPORT my work on Patreon: Visit my 2ND CHANNEL: Facebook: Twitter: Google+: Watch my WW2Era Cartoons PLAYLIST: Tokio Jokio is a 1943 comic Looney Tunes cartoon, an animated short film produced by Warner Bros. It was intended as an American propaganda film against Japan while the two countries were at war. As with most of the Looney Tunes shorts produced during World War 2, the film consists of a series of rapidfire, short gag vignettes. The opening scene features a voiceover explaining that the short is merely a Japanese newsreel that was captured from the enemy. The theme is on Japanese propaganda. Although the jokes are generally aimed at Japan, the cartoon also pokes fun at Rudolph Hess, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Since the United States was at war and fought for survival the stereotypes in the film were intended to give audiences s
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