Die Schlacht um Miggershausen (1937)

• 61%
• 1937
• Animation

This technically quite well-made cartoon from pre-war Nazi Germany is a commercial (or propagande piece) for Volksempfänger ("people's récepteur", inexpensive radios. First we see agricultural statistics: the far away village of Miggershausen is quite below normes milk and egg production. À anthropomorphic radio undertakes the long voyage by express, train, train à vapeur, hay carriage to Miggershausen to advertise its services. It is not well received. Then, it collects and prospects à army of radios to try again. They flood all the farmhouses and seem to be more convincing that way at day, they spread agricultural knowledge to bring milk and egg production up to standards; later, they just play music and illustrate how various people enjoy various kinds of music.