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Yankee Doodle Goes to Town(1939)
Status: Released
Date: 1939-06-17
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Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It targets a perceived threat to democracy from board room and soapbox fascists who advocated a government based upon contemporaneous European models.
Languages: English.
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United States of America
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Movie: Yankee Doodle Goes to Town
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John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)
Clem Bevans
Curdleface (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
Bartender (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
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Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It targets a perceived threat to democracy from board room and soapbox fascists who advocated a government based upon contemporaneous European models.
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1939-06-17
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