The Only Cartoon Ever Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize

[Jcrowley]

MGM Cartoon 1939 Peace On Earth

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuiut_mgm-cartoon-1939-peace-on-earth

The only cartoon ever nominated for a Noble Peace Prize, this 1939 Hugh Harman cartoon shows a post-apocalyptic world populated by animals picking up the pieces after a war kills every human on earth.

[tridim]

1. Fantastic!

Olbermann should show that on Countdown.

[mia]

2. Thanks for posting this.

I enjoyed it.
k&r!

[brer cat]

3. Wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

I had never heard of this!

K&R

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. K & R..."Ye shall rebuild the old wastes" Brilliant.

MKJ

[deepthought42]

5. Yea, K&R #5! great cartoon :) n/t

[seemslikeadream]

6. Peace on Earth Jcrowley

Peace on Earth

[Journeyman]

7. Thanks. K&R. . .

[madokie]

8. Too Cool

[Hissyspit]

9. I love that cartoon.

In 1939, it was as much a plea, as a warning.

(It's Nobel, by the way.)

[Jcrowley]

10. Hey there

thanks for the correction. Asleep at the wheel.

So many levels in that little bit huh? I found it to be be pretty wise as well as having a bit of a Saturday morning cartoony Twilight Zone effect.

[Sydnie]

11. Thank you for sharing!

That was wonderful.

[MonkeyFunk]

12. Technically

Hugh Harman was nominated for the Nobel - not the cartoon.

But great cartoon - thanks!

[Miss Chybil]

52. I love sock monkeys. -- Sigh-- nt

[annabanana]

13. Remarkable.

I've seen dozens of his cartoons, but never this one. Beautiful.

[Kajsa]

24. This is fantastic.

The graphics in the war scenes are outstanding.

:thumbsup:

[Straight Shooter]

14. Interesting that the last man drowned with his upraised hand still clenched in a fist.

Some things just never seem to change.

[buddysmellgood]

15. Corporate media would never show that today. Might cut into their profits.

[Jcrowley]

17. This cartoon

"Peace On Earth"was pulled off of YouTube as soon as it went up. Warner now owns the copyright and didn't want it seen.


NO PEACE ON EARTH

24 December 1944, Christmas Eve, absolutely no Christmas spirit and no caroling tonight, just the opposite - no peace on earth. Death is all around us. We were on the outskirts of Humain and Buissionville fighting in a heavily wooded area with waist deep snow and frigid temperatures near or below zero. Nobody was talking, but to a man we felt the twinge of homesickness and nostalgia. Who ever had started that damned rumor in the fall that we would be home by Christmas was severely mistaken and constipated. We got through the night and the next day wasn't much better.

http://www.2ndarmoredhellonwheels.com/Don_R_Marsh_Diary/diary_entry_10.html

[TheMadMonk]

26. Time for it it go viral then.

It's survived three days over x-mas, don't expect it to last much longer.

Some things transcend copyright. Or they bloody well should if that copyright is used to suppress.

Rip it and distribute via email and chat rooms. Make it impossible for Warner to stuff this Genie back into the bottle.

[Jcrowley]

27. I don't know how

to do any of those things. But I completely agree with your sentiments and hope that it gets passed around as you suggest.

[otherlander]

31. STEAL THIS VIDEO!

:patriot:

[Mojorabbit]

36. How does one save this video?

I adore it!

[buddysmellgood]

35. That is depressing.

[Ian_rd]

39. Especially since part of the media is owned by the same people as weapon manufacturers

[nuxvomica]

16. Terrific battle scenes. Did you notice the pink bubbles?

That's probably as close to depicting blood as they could get in a studio cartoon at the time. Overall a pretty amazing achievement in animation and the depiction of a civilization that destroyed itself despite revering high-minded goals is very haunting.

[A Simple Game]

21. I also noted the increasingly foolish reasons for going to war.

Reminded me of the present administration with their Rolodex of reasons for the war in Iraq.

[Jack Rabbit]

18. Thank you

Apart from the message, I am reminded how much better Saturday morning television was when I was growing up in the era before the tawdry made-for-TV cartoons that came along afterward. In those days, all they hade were the old theatrical animated shorts, like that one (I saw it often). They would have done better to have kept running them to generation after generation of children.

[Nabia2004]

I too remember watching it as a child

and you are right on about the animation.

[rug]

19. No Peace Prize was awarded that year.

[Selatius]

20. Walt Disney was coming out with government propaganda pieces during this time.

And look who got nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize instead?

Certainly not a Jew-hating, labor union hating, anti-liberal, anti-socialist Walt Disney.

[bobbolink]

22. can't see it on this library machine, but I recorded that

quite some time ago, and have put it on disks for other people with other things on it. It's made an impression.

You find the most interesting things!

:thumbsup:

[aaronbees]

23. What a great find

"Looks like a mighty good book of rules but I get them men didn't pay attention to it..." (said the wise owl about 'Thou Shalt Not Kill').

Powerful stuff; let's hope it's not too prophetic about our fate. :(

Thanks for posting it!

[Marr]

25. Oh my god! I've been looking for that cartoon for 20 years!

When I was a little kid they played that once in the slot usually reserved for Bugs Bunny. It freaked me out, but it really stuck with me. All this time I've been thinking it must've been some unusual Warner Bros. thing, but apparently not.

Thanks so much!

[GenDem]

29. After watching it...

I was getting that dejavu feeling, too. I think that I saw this when I was a very young child...probably more like 35 or 40 year ago for me. The animation was so vivid and powerful, I just know that I remember seeing this.

[GenDem]

28. Darn them there librel, peace love'n, varmints!

:sarcasm: spread'n all that anti war crap.

[blogslut]

30. thanks for the link!

:)

[neuvocat]

Really!

I saw that one a few times when I was a kid. I didn't entirely get it even when I understood the premise.

[neuvocat]

32. Really!

I saw that one a few times when I was a kid. I didn't entirely get it even when I understood the premise.

[dickthegrouch]

33. Man is Sooooooooo Pathetic

I remember surprising my father by being angry when he explained war to me.

I said something along the lines of "But Romans did that and that was a very long time ago". He sadly put down the book, picked up the newspaper and showed me the headline for the Suez war.

My response was "But this is the 20th century. We still do that?????"

Children who can't respect their toys get them taken away.

People who can't respect other's health and right to Life, Liberty and Happiness should have theirs taken away.

[Kurovski]

34. I recall seeing this as a child, but having now grown up,

I realize that the wise old owl would have eaten that deliciously plump little squirrel.

[mogster]

37. Great movie, but not a nominee

Sorry to rain on your parade, but ;-)

http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/nomination.php?string=1939&action=simplesearch&submit.x=20&submit.y=8

The Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded that year due to the outbreak of WWII. Among the nominees was Hitler, Chamberlain, Roosevelt and many other.

[Jcrowley]

44. Hugh Harman Was Nominated

Mr. Harman and his partner, Rudolph Ising, won the Oscar for their 1940 cartoon ''The Milky Way.'' The partners had seven Oscar nominations between them, and Mr. Harman also was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his 1939 antiwar feature, ''Peace on Earth.''

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDB1039F933A05752C1A964948260

This cartoon was not only nominated for an Academy Award, it was the only cartoon ever nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Harman made this nine-minute cartoon as World War II began. Few realized the mass slaughter of soldiers and civilians alike that just getting under way. The atom bomb was still a theory. Supersonic bombers and ballistic missiles were still on the drawing board. The idea that the human race could exterminate itself in a matter of an hour or two was just a fantasy.

Now, nearly 70 years after this cartoon was made, the dark nightmare of humanity bringing on its own extinction through war draws closer and closer. And we are no closer to peace on earth in December 2006 than we were in December 1939.

"We must love one another or die," wrote W.H. Auden in that fateful year, 1939. Can we? Will we?

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/4187

[elperromagico]

38. I'm surprised a studio run by a conservative like Louis B. Mayer

would put out something like that.

[Ian_rd]

40. "Conservative" isn't what it used to be. Not by a long shot.

[amb123]

43. Conservatives were decent back then.

Not like now. :shrug:

[PurpleChez]

41. THANK YOU!!!!

I have only ever seen clips of this film. Thanks for the link!

[Alamom]

42. Thank you. I had never seen this. It's brilliant & timeless. n/t

[Irishonly]

45. Thank You

I had never seen it.

[derby378]

46. K&R #36!

Thank you for sharing this with us. I need a hanky now.

[Spazito]

47. Wow, it's message is as relevant today as it was in 1939,

Thank you for finding this and posting it, a must watch, imo.

Recommended.

[helderheid]

48. absolutely wonderful - I just shared it with my kids!

[emald]

49. Hard to imagine, no human beings

but if we continue down our self deprecating lane as a country we will surely be closer than ever to this horrible situation. Can you imagine? All of Shakespeare, gone; all the great art, gone; all the history, gone; everything man made and man done will be gone and never ever will it again show up in the universe. Hard to imagine, hard to grasp. But if we continue allowing the madmen of this world to start and continue wars of destruction than sooner or later, and probably sooner, we will see the nukes taken out and used. GWBushit thinks this a viable option, as do many of our citizens. I heard a friend the other day suggest that we "nuke'm into glowing green glass" without the other side of that war option even being thought of. The day after, and the day after that when hundreds of thousands start to die from radiation, nuclear winter, disease, hunger. It has happened before that men have crapped into their own nests so bad that we almost didn't continue. 75000 years ago a volcano almost assured that human beings wouldn't be even a memory on the earth. Now, at this later date, with all our science, all our "faith", all our medicine, we stand at the precipice. Everything you have ever done, that anyone has ever done, good or bad, memorable or not, will disappear in a firestorm if we allow this madness to continue. Adults must take over or the children are going to ruin the race. GWBushit must not be allowed the use of nuclear weapons, these must be taken off the table. Write your congresscriters, yell at your friends. Nuclear weapons must not be used, not because the atom is so bad, but because human beings are. Our current situation causes me to wonder if God has not just turned his back on human beings, disgusted at the horror we seem to want to make in killing each other. It is a soreness in my heart that people are so intent on killing those not like themselves, when our planet is a lonely globe circling a lonely sun in a vast universe that cares not one whit if mankind continues it's course. We will wipe ourselves out if we don't stop this madness.

[New Earth]

50. thank you

i will watch this when I get home from work...

[Mojorabbit]

51. I'd like to save this to my computer but can't figure out how to do it.

Can anyone help me?

[motocicleta]

53. too bad it looks like we'll manage to make the planet unlivable even

for animals when we are done with it ...

[The Witch]

54. "this video may offend" is to the right of the vid on that site.

How this could offend anyone but warmongering bastards bent on blood-for-oil is beyond me.

[corkhead]

55. FYI that is Ben Mankewicz from The Young Turks at the end of the clip

he moonlights on turner classics