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The Romance of Digestion

Mar 13, 1937 · 8m
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Comedy

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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.

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CAST

Robert Benchley
Joe Doakes
Directed by Felix E. Feist

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Released
Original language
EN
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Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country
US
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