TALKING ANIMALS
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Year Published: 1927
Format: 16mm
Description: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference This black & white WWIl era morale film features footage from the 1927 classic boxing match which featured Jack Dempsey vs Gene Tunney. It also has a "By Request" segment about animals "speaking for themselves" which features hilariously campy animation and singing cows (and likely inspired a few "talking mule" films!). This is circa the mid-1940s, apparently post-war so likely 1946-48. Opening titles: Navy Edition Army-Navy Screen Magazine presents Sports…and still champion (:06). Boxer Jack Dempsey, in the United States Coast Guard, clowns around with some of his Navy men (:35). Dempsey visits the front (:48). James Joseph "Gene" Tunney, an American boxer stretches (:59). He teaches the men calisthenics (1:01). Tunney boxes with a recruit (1:08). Title card: Jack Dempsey vs Gene Tunney - September 22, 1927, Chicago, IL, the boxers enter the ring (1:18). Controversial round 7 of the fight, the "Long Count" is applied to the name of this fight because when Tunney was knocked down in the seventh round, the first time in his career, the count was delayed due to Dempsey's failure to go to and remain in a neutral corner. Whether this "long count" actually affected the outcome remains a subject of debate; after Tunney stands back up he finishes the round without incident (1:36). Title card: Round 10 of the fight, Dempsey shoves Tunney down, the round goes back and forth (3:43). The fight is over. Tunney wins in a unanimous decision (5:03). Title card: By Request, animals speak for themselves (5:13). By Request was a famous segment in the Screen Magazine, where G.I.s would send in questions to be answered or requests for something or someone to appear in the show. Here, a female hostess answers a questions about animals, as G.I. Joe misses his pets and farm animals (5:20). With clunky special effects, monkeys on a tree speak (5:56). A fox looks around (6:20). An alpaca (6:44). A skunk (7:10). Donkeys (7:30). A goat digs through trash (8:05). Cattle grazes in the west; a cow wanders; a group of cows sing (8:40).
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[Music] a great all-time sports hero Jack Dempsey is today in the United States Coast Guard in charge of physical training of the men of the LSTs and the LC is in the Pacific commander Dempsey visits the front everywhere he's hailed by his former fans Jack Dempsey still the champion 2 million another champion gene Tunney got into the big fight early he became a commander in the Navy also in charge of physical education Jenny still undefeated [Music] yet two decades ago they made a different kind of history battling each other it was their second contest and became one of the greatest fights on record before a hundred and five thousand people who paid 2 and 1/2 million dollars for the spectacle for six rounds it was touch and go with the cover Tunney steadily building a lead on points then the Manassa mauler lashed out in his old ferocious time several fast deadly punches and honey hit the deck here in slow motion is the famous Long Count which cost Dempsey the fight referee Barry has ordered him to a neutral corner Jack hesitated so the referee penalized him by beginning the count at 1 2 3 four five six seven eight nine and ten years up the four seconds was just enough for him to clear his head and regain his strength the knockdown had cost Sonny points but he made an amazing comeback and by the tenth round he was well out in front MC was tiring disappointed at being deprived of the victory he was so sure had been hit the winner and still the champion gene Tunney [Music] hi I'm Sergeant Ellen meadow cross it's my job to answer request a new Leatherneck just get a load of this one from private Roger he says one thing we missed most at sea is animals especially a guy from the farm like me I back home the animals almost talk to me can't you show us some just for old times sake ma how we've changed si or half way but nobody ever heard of a monkey mother abandoning her babies or simian tribes fighting and killing one another nevertheless according to scientists in all the actions and reactions of monkeys and at all their physical and nervous structure - they most nearly resembled man we've monkeys resent that last statement [Music] the Fox is smart we all know that but who knows what makes him so we know he is valuable because his skin is what the ladies love to touch but fur doesn't make a fox of philosophy what does make you so smart mr. Fox you gotta be smart when everyone is trying to skin you it isn't the Sheep for a camel it's an alpaca from Peru and though is all wall in the yard wide his IQ is X - he's a regular punter him while he was found to be shared as patiently as the stupidest sheep that was ever please uh I may not be the smartest but I bet I'm distribute looking at em will you ever saw the skunk is a real Native American since nature surrounded him with the aura of his own odor and it isn't Chanel number five he doesn't know why so unpopular and since his best friend's wolf will have to tell the poor little stinker what's wrong with it well what do you know why I've got Buell [Music] of course there are jackasses at our booths who humble pearls have parents of the mule and the prospectors faithful threat the female of the species is known as Jenny and the male is a dreamy fellow with a preference for the lighter shades of beauty say tack what is it you stand around all day dreaming about I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair [Music] as a goat's appetite ever plucked at a menu that would embarrass a rock crusher does a goat ever worried over vitamins calories and such dull Sri Akal eat not only to stale dregs of a tin can but he'll eat the can to what he gets around to it he grows stronger and stronger on any old thing the older the better to disturb mr. Justin if anyone in the audience got any bicarbonate of soda in the West is the time for reposing high time that are booked to be posing we hope that you liked our who's going and our moo-cows unusual boy [Music] baby I'm a cowboy in the range one day I heard him playing it [Music] better be on your way get along [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music]
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