theburningarchive on Instagram: "“The Ducktators” is a 1942 World War II propaganda cartoon by Warner Bros., part of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series. It satirizes the Axis powers by portraying dictators as farm birds: a f@scist black duck modeled after @dolf H!tler, a goose representing Ben!to Mussolin!, a dove parodying Pope Pius XII, and a white duck caricaturing Japanese leaders (a depiction now recognized as r@cist). The story follows these “ducktators” as they take over the barnyard

CARTOONS on Instagram: "🎬 Jerky Turkey (1945) is a Tex Avery animated short where a dopey Pilgrim hunts a clever, Jimmy Durante-voiced turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, but the turkey uses WWII-era rationing gags, black market humor, and surreal cartoon physics to outsmart the Pilgrim, leading to both getting tricked and eaten by a bear named Joe, a classic anti-climactic Avery ending. The cartoon is famous for its anachronistic wartime jokes and satirical take on Thanksgiving, with the turkey ru