The Amateur Fire Brigade: A Fable of the New Deal(1935)
In Eshbaugh’s ‘political’ animated cartoon world, the Democratic platform is destroyed by its own swallowing of the NRA (National Recovery Act), sending the Donkey representing the party into a dizzying disastrous bucking fury (thanks to a ‘liberal’ added dose of Russian vodka).
Movie: The Amateur Fire Brigade: A Fable of the New Deal
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