Symos Even though the French were not literally starving during the Occupation, there was a very hard food rationing. By 1941, you couldn't get sugar, cheese, cereals or vegetables without ration coupon. You could try the black market, but at your own risk to get shot by the police or the Germans.
1:20 The Subtitles miss something, the little girl says "and Hot chocolate and croissants *everyday*, hahaha" It really aimed at stirring up anger at the general population, heavily rationned, for those rich people wanting luxury while everyone else suffered.
There's a 2001 article in the Journal of European Studies which shows that Raymond Jeannin (the uncredited creator of this film) and his associates were willing collaborators with the Nazi/Vichy regime. Jeannin was supposedly threatened to get him to turn in this film on time, but he went out of his way to offer his animation services to the regime multiple times before that, and he wrote for pro-German newspapers at the same time. It seems pretty clear that Jeannin supported these views and only disowned this film later on because the Nazis lost. The story of some poor animator making this with a gun to his head doesn't add up.
You have to appreciate this film for it's gripping dark humour.... I won't support it in anyway, but hell.... The person who made this (if what feiiskim says is true) doesn't. If feiiskim is bullshitting, it is still likely it was made by somebody who wasn't completely willing. Thing is, it's well paced, timed, and effective. It got a huge rise out of my history of animation class.
Donald was the leader, lol. Popeye was getting drunk on the mission too. And Felix was looking scared. BTW, this is on a 1980s French post war film called Eye Of Vichy that is Vichy newsreels, excellent to watch! Oh, I almost forgot, the person that made this cartoon was executed after the war for making it!
Damn that's messed up. Getting the death penalty just for making a dumb little cartoon like this. Guess the west doesn't really believe in freedom of speech huh?
Франция сдалась Гитлеру примерно за 50 дней Вся аргументация жителей и радость в мульте, якобы, что вместо лучшего французского шпината будет британская и американская еда и сигареты...
This was in during ww2 so don’t complain about the quality it was a propaganda cartoon from the nazis after they tryed to convince the French that the allied forces where planning on bombing them
@@SamRichardson1990 just because it happen in a cartoon doesnt mean it happen with in real life. The events of WWII happened is true with in the countries. But with wartime cartoons it's for support and making fun of the enemy or enemies
I wonder if Disney, King Features, and Paramount saw this cartoon and attempted to proceed with legal action for the unlicensed use of their characters and the way they were being portrayed.
Certainly not. They had several like these before cinema viewings much like the Americans and British. But they were all likely destroyed before the end of the war. This is only surviving because it is French. And was probably taken by Allied soldiers during Liberation.
I enjoyed watching Eve Of Vichy also, it was very enlightening. There was another documentary I saw done by the French in the 70's with many interviews from occupation survivor's, one lady liked all the "handsome" German soldiers during the occupation, I don't think she was the exception either. The Allies had to walk a tightrope with the bombing on French soil, worried about more French collaboration then was already happening. Thankfully the Nazi's were the more evil to the French eyes.
I'm a voice actress and I can do a part French Micky mouse. As well popeye the sailor in English. The nazis didn't even try with this.. Donald sounds off and I could do different voices if I need to. Also the animation is trash and very campy and skips as well repeats.
Thank you for the subtitles. My French is decent enough, but the voice acting and sound quality is so atrocious that I would not have been able to make heads or tails of anything said here without them. This cartoon is the worst I have ever seen. Just utterly atrocious in intent and execution, right down to the very lazy cel overlays you see with the planes and the angel of death at the end. The humor doesn't land, the imitations aren't even done well (Mickey is ferociously off-model, Donald is very out of character, why would Popeye bomb people instead of punching them?), and the final point is so ineffective as to be laughable. Just awful.
""Nimbus Libéré" (“Nimbus Released”) is the worst cartoon I’ve ever seen and it’s not even close. [...] In every technical area, animation, sound, writing, it’s abysmal. In style, it is repellent. In intent, it is pure evil." "FUCK THIS CARTOON. IT IS THE MOST FUCKING REPREHENSIBLE THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. I WISH IT WAS A PERSON WITH A SOUL SO THAT I COULD BE SURE IT WAS BURNING IN HELL." "[...] let’s talk about how this utterly fails as propaganda. What is the goal here? What is the point? How is this supposed to work? [...] with "Nimbus Libéré", the enemy and the audience are one and the same. Here, the Nazis are saying to their French victims “Yeah, we know you hate us. But those people you’re hoping will save you? Guess again. They’re just going to kill you. So keep the fuck in line.” Which is why, as already mentioned, I wish this cartoon was capable of suffering an eternity of fire in the infernal hereafter. But okay, how is this cartoon supposed to achieve that? If the goal is to make the audience terrified of the coming Allied liberation, surely the Allies should be depicted in a way that is actually, y’know, scary? Why depict the Allies as a bunch of harmless cartoon characters[...]?" "In order to achieve it’s presumed goal, "Nimbus Libéré", would need to be a horror. And it’s not. It’s a (hideously unfunny) comedy where the death of the audience is the punchline. If I was a Frenchman watching this in 1944? I’d be seething and counting every second until the Americans and British arrived so I could go frickin’ Aldo Raine on Les Collaborateurs." -Unshaved Mouse
"if it wasn't for the weather the nazi's would of took moscow with a snap of their finger" And if not for the Nazis having guns and rockets, we could have beaten them with baseball bats! It's not like the weather was a freak accident; it's a known quantity. It beat Napoleon, and Napoleon was one of if not the greatest military minds to ever walk the face of the Earth. The Allies won due to a team effort, but Russia still contributed like 45%.
