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Beer Parade (1933) Online

Beer Parade (1933) Online
Original Title :
Beer Parade
Genre :
Movie / Animation / Short
Year :
1933
Directror :
Dick Huemer
Type :
Movie
Time :
6min
Rating :
6.7/10

Scrappy and Oopie, though little boys, happily celebrate the return of beer after fourteen years, with the help of brew-guzzling gnomes, apparently from the "Rip Van Winkle" story. They ... See full summary

Beer Parade (1933) Online

Scrappy and Oopie, though little boys, happily celebrate the return of beer after fourteen years, with the help of brew-guzzling gnomes, apparently from the "Rip Van Winkle" story. They leave an allegorical "Prohibition" figure (ugly old man in stovepipe hat) stripped and chased off.

Though released only days after Roosevelt's inauguration, and a month before beer was actually legalized, everyone knew it was coming, and the remaining laws against hard liquor ended in December that year with Prohibition's full repeal.


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monotronik

Scrappy and Oopie are partying with some gnomes who are enjoying beer from barrels. A mean Prohibition Agent appears and attacks the barrels with an axe, but Oopie will defend the right of people to enjoy their lager in this cartoon released a month before beer sales were legalized.

It had been a long fight and this typically bizarre Scrappy cartoon has the two children strongly in support of drinking. Although they do not partake themselves, they certainly use startlingly strange methods typical of Dick Huemer's series. It is a pretty good one because it does not ease up in the second half. Dick and his staff certainly made it clear where their sympathies lay!