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Because There's Sunshine Everywhere

Happy gnomes drop sunshine bombs on a village of gloomy Gothic types in this 1935 cartoon from the Van Beuren studios. Rather a strange message it sends out about the victory of aggressive optimism.

Posted by on May 13, 2008 1:20 PM |

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Borden's, the sponsor of the short, was of course a famous milk company. Bottled sunshine, indeed!

Posted by: Kevin P. Edgecomb | May 13, 2008 7:25 PM

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