Hands (1944)

★★★★ · Hands across America · Spuzz · 2003-06-25

This is an interesting short film. We first see a bunch of hands doing various things, playing the piano, working in industry, but then it cuts to the warfield, where the narrator says hands can be used in the warfield, and sometimes they can get blown off! I thought for a second this was the most surreal pacifist message made anywhere, but then of course, the narrator says 'and here are the men who do it! And that's when we see Those Nasty Germans And Japs. The film then goes into a nice war propaganda bit, effectively using a fist coming towards the screen to say "crush dem bastards!"…