Friday A/V Club: FDR, Cartoon Character

Confidence (1933)
begins as many early-’30s cartoons do, with a bunch of animals
dancing in a farmyard. When the dancing’s done, they get to work,
laying eggs and so forth. And then the Depression starts, as
symbolized by a skull-faced figure in a cloak that says DEPRESSION
flying around and terrorizing everyone. The hens won’t lay, there’s
a run on a bank, the stock market crashes, and cute little Oswald the
Rabbit flies to Washington, D.C., to meet with President
Franklin Roosevelt, who delivers a stirring song about
confidence.

Two things you might notice about this version of FDR:

1. He can walk.
2. He has Hitler hair. Or at least it looks a lot more like Hitler
hair than FDR hair.

Oswald fills up a syringe from the president’s personal barrel
full of confidence, returns home, and marches around the farm,
restoring prosperity by giving everyone shots. A merry song plays
on the soundtrack, featuring lyrics like New day coming/for
worker and drone! And then the barnyard starts dancing again.
The end. Thank you, Mr. President!

Enjoy:

(Thanks to Joel Schlosberg for
passing this one along. For past editions of the Friday A/V Club,
go here.)