Gremlins pop up to get ready to menace Adolph Hitler in Bob Clampett’s Merrie Melodies short Russian Rhapsody (1944).
How did Clampett get away with this one?
As you have probably read, many of the gremlins are based on the Warners cartoon staff, including a nude Bob Clampett. I like the Christmas tree gremlin. I don't know who it is supposed to be.
Rod Scribner is the credited animator and Lou Lilly is the story man. Hitler is turned into Lew Lehr at the end.
Bob McKimson does the opening scene of Hitler at the microphone - Scribner does among other things, the “a” card gag and the closeup of Hitler with the Mad Russian gremlin.
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