Animals in Action (1955)
*** (out of 4)
This Pete Smith short is pretty much exactly what you'd expect it to be as the narrator gives his comments over some footage of various animals doing various tricks. Some of these include a dog race, a dog jumping out of a plane with a parachute, a monkey giving a cat a bath and we see a couple baby chimps fighting with a dog. I think PETA members will probably want to stay away from this as I'm sure some animal lovers might object to some of this material. There isn't anything real damaging and there's certainly no deaths but the scene with the dog landing from the plane jump even made me cringe as did a scene where a racing dog runs into a board. With that said, I still found the film entertaining and extremely cute from start to finish. This includes a very cute scene where a bear is trying to teach its cub to swim. The footage is mostly rough footage and there's certainly no "direction" going on here but at just 9-minutes it's worth watching.
*** (out of 4)
This Pete Smith short is pretty much exactly what you'd expect it to be as the narrator gives his comments over some footage of various animals doing various tricks. Some of these include a dog race, a dog jumping out of a plane with a parachute, a monkey giving a cat a bath and we see a couple baby chimps fighting with a dog. I think PETA members will probably want to stay away from this as I'm sure some animal lovers might object to some of this material. There isn't anything real damaging and there's certainly no deaths but the scene with the dog landing from the plane jump even made me cringe as did a scene where a racing dog runs into a board. With that said, I still found the film entertaining and extremely cute from start to finish. This includes a very cute scene where a bear is trying to teach its cub to swim. The footage is mostly rough footage and there's certainly no "direction" going on here but at just 9-minutes it's worth watching.