War Babies (1932)
1932 · Short film · 11 min · dir. Charles Lamont
- Comedy
Synopsis
War Babies is a 1932 American comedy short film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the second in a series of eight one-reelers that satirized adult films and themes called Baby Burlesks. The casts in the series are pre-schoolers dressed in adult costumes on top and diapers fastened with large safety pins on the bottom. War Babies takes place in a cafe, where children pose as adults, specifically musicians, soldiers, a bar keep, and a dancer.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Charles Lamont
- Released
- 1932-09-11
- Running time
- 11 minutes
Cast & crew
Charles Lamont Director
Shirley Temple
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Dimples · Charlie/Busterfan · 2007-04-17
Who doesen't love Shirley Temple.The Cute Dimples and curles, she the cuttest kid actor of all time. GO DIMPLES.
★★★★★ · Hilarious · tyciol · 2010-12-03
What a great film.
★★★★★ · Training Film · lten1063 · 2011-01-09
It is only a training film for the GI's on how women pick up & two time GI's in bars & clubs. How it came into the lime light is that when the War Department/Department of Defence declass the training films, news reels and so fourth from WWI to Vietnam was throwen in the trash. I guy recovered them, produced a web site and made them available to the public. This and other films was not for public viewing while classified as sensitive material. I use to have his web site but lost it. In todays time & laws this film could be considered as child porn by some
★★★★ · Sex,War And FDR! · uglygeorge · 2005-08-09
Of course they're only little kids playing adults & it's supposed to be funny & make a lot of money,too. But FDR, our big-mouthed Commander-In-Chief of EVERYTHING and wannabe Prez-4-Life, just HAD to stick his Big Nose into Kid Sex,too. Pulling the strings of his puppet Will Hays, the Code Boards (read: Cent.Comitee of the Commy Party USA) began to deny more & more 'seals' to sexy pix like this. Ugly George notes incredulously that a little flat-chested 4-year old chick (Shoily Temple) was the subject of many Code Board local meetings & debates about her 'femme fatale' roles,as one reviewer…
★★★★ · DISTURBING? SOME PEOPLE ARE PLAIN DISTURBED... · bob.austin · 2009-02-09
and sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. This is an amazingly cute clip of shirley temple and the other child actors. It's meant to be funny. Lighten up.
★★ · The defence Greene never used · DKelsey · 2005-06-18
This is not a good film, but it is an important one. In 1938 Grahame Greene and his publisher were sued for libel by Shirley Temple and 20th Century Fox because in a review of "Wee Willie Winkie" in the "Night and Day" magazine Greene had suggested that Temple's act was deliberately designed to exploit the sexual fantasies of elderly clergymen. The defendants admitted guilt and the case was settled out of court, the imputation being described as "an outrage" by the prosecuting counsel and the judge. Perhaps Greene should have added lawyers to the professions with an unhealthy view of the…
