DirtyGreek
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http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3048-Peace_on_Earth.html
Peace On Earth is an MGM cartoon that was released in 1939. It takes place on Christmas Eve, where a town of squirrels is singing "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing" in a little village that looks like it was made from army helmets. An old squirrel goes in to see his grandkids (grandsquirrels?), and they ask him "Grandpa, what are men?" He then goes on to tell them that there are no more men in the world, but when they existed, they "were like monsters... always fightin' and quarrelin' over something."
He tells them the story of the great war that finished off the men, where "the flat-footed people started fighting the bucktoothed people, and the vegetarians started fighting the meat eating people..." The war ended with the last two men shooting each other.
The animals then looked through the ruins and found a book of rules that the men left behind. The wise owl reads from it: "Thou shalt not kill. Looks like a good book of rules. I guess those men didn't pay much attention to it." The animals then rebuild from the ruins of the war.
It turns out that the cartoon was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for its anti-war message. It's a GREAT cartoon. Probably one of the best classic cartoons I've ever seen. If I were to get a request for it, I'd probably send the person who requested it a link to the divx version for download.
 12/4/2005 12:42:02 PM
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