Hell-Bent for Election (1944)
13m
Running Time
July 1, 1944Release Date
Hell-Bent for Election (1944)
13m
Running Time
July 1, 1944Release Date
Plot.
A full-blown re-election piece for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey. Roosevelt is depicted as a streamlined diesel express train in a race against Dewey, a worn-out steam train. The public is admonished to "get behind the president and stay the course to victory."
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Hell-Bent For Election is a 1944 two-reel (thirteen minute) animated cartoon short subject film.The short was one of the first major films from United Productions of America (then known as "Industrial Films"), which would go on to become the most influential animation studio of the 1950s. As UPA did not have a full staff or a studio location until the late 1940s, this film was made in animator Zack Schwartz's apartment with the help of moonlighters from various local Hollywood animation studios. Among the moonlighters was Chuck Jones, who directed the film.