Brotherhood of Man (1946)
1946 · Animation · 10 min · dir. Robert Cannon.
- Animation
- Short
Synopsis
Made from a pamphlet and financed by a union, the message that the similarities between people are greater than any racial differences, was part of a post WW2 optimism which was soon to be seen as leftist propaganda and now reads like simple multiculturalism.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Robert Cannon.
- Writer
- Phil Eastman
- Studio
- United Productions of America
- Released
- 1945-01-12
- Running time
- 10 minutes
Cast & crew
Robert Cannon. Director
Eddie Bracken
Howard Duff
Jerry Hausner
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Cultural Relativism and Equal Opportunities · Eva Vikstrom · 2007-07-29
"Everybody has his own special dream of what the world's going to be like in the future. But we all know it's steadily shrinking. One of these days we're going to wake up and find that peoples and places we used to just read about are to (?) in our own backyard." The theme of this movie is introduced in those words. It's based on a pamphlet by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish, "Races of Mankind" (1943), first published by the Public Affairs Committee. A man wakes up and looks out in the backyard, where he sees buildings representing a variety of cultures of the world. Men come running, the…
★★★★★ · Tea Party Nightmare Cartoon · Dr.Toast · 2010-05-20
How bizarrly retro-timley. An uplifting and noble message. Funny how we all come from white blonde adam and eve in spite of the brotherhood and equalty talk. Pretty progressive for the times. Loved the evil self device. The bit on blood was also very good. That belief was very popular at the time. Better print a must.
