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The Romance of Digestion (1937)
Directed by Felix E. Feist
Comedy · 8m
A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and digesting food. The on-screen narrator begins with teeth, "little sentinels" as he calls them, and the tongue. Then it's on to the stomach: he describes the stomach's workings as if it were an office or a factory. He uses an illustration of the side view of a human torso, with mouth, esophagus, and stomach visible, saying it's a photograph of a man with a visible digestive tract.
Cast
Robert Benchley
Crew
- Director
- Felix E. Feist
- Writer
- Felix E. Feist, Robert Benchley
Details
- Release date
- 1937-03-13
- Runtime
- 8m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer