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''Imagination'' is a 1943 animated short film (8 minutes) directed by Bob Wickersham and produced by [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Dave Fleischer]] for Creator/ColumbiaCartoons.

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''Imagination'' is a 1943 animated short film (8 minutes) directed by Bob Wickersham and produced by [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Dave Fleischer]] for Creator/ColumbiaCartoons.
Creator/ColumbiaPictures' [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons Screen Gems cartoon studio]].
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* ShowSomeLeg: The sailor, dressed as the girl, does this to distract the roly-poly toy.

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* ShowSomeLeg: The sailor, dressed as the girl, does this to distract the roly-poly toy.toy.
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In this one-shot cartoon, a little girl comes home to an apartment. She obviously lives in poverty--windows are cracked, chunks of plaster are missing from the walls, and she's there alone. The girl hops onto the bed and starts playing with her dolls, a little blonde-haired doll that resembles the girl quite a bit, and a male sailor doll.

As she plays, a narrator urges her to use her power of imagination. The narrator bursts into a song about imagination. All the toys come alive, including the girl doll and the sailor doll, who dance on their own, and start falling in love--that is, until an evil [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roly-poly_toy roly-poly toy]] decides to stop the romance.

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In this one-shot cartoon, a little girl comes home to an apartment. She obviously lives in poverty--windows are cracked, chunks of plaster are missing from the walls, and she's there alone. alone. The girl hops onto the bed and starts playing with her dolls, a little blonde-haired doll that resembles the girl quite a bit, and a male sailor doll.

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As she plays, a narrator urges her to use her power of imagination. The narrator bursts into a song about imagination. imagination. All the toys come alive, including the girl doll and the sailor doll, who dance on their own, and start falling in love--that is, until an evil [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roly-poly_toy roly-poly toy]] decides to stop the romance.



* DamselInDistress: The girl, who cries out "Save me! Save me!" to the sailor as the villain whisks her away.

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* DamselInDistress: The girl, who cries out "Save me! me! Save me!" to the sailor as the villain whisks her away.



* MoodWhiplash: The cartoon takes an odd turn when the girl wrecks the car and winds up in doll hospital, going on the operating table. Of course the fact that all the dialogue is getting sung still undercuts the seriousness of this.

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* MoodWhiplash: The cartoon takes an odd turn when the girl wrecks the car and winds up in doll hospital, going on the operating table. Of course the fact that all the dialogue is getting sung still undercuts the seriousness of this.
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''Imagination'' is a 1943 animated short film (8 minutes) directed by Bob Wickersham and produced by [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Dave Fleischer]] for Creator/ColumbiaCartoons.

In this one-shot cartoon, a little girl comes home to an apartment. She obviously lives in poverty--windows are cracked, chunks of plaster are missing from the walls, and she's there alone. The girl hops onto the bed and starts playing with her dolls, a little blonde-haired doll that resembles the girl quite a bit, and a male sailor doll.

As she plays, a narrator urges her to use her power of imagination. The narrator bursts into a song about imagination. All the toys come alive, including the girl doll and the sailor doll, who dance on their own, and start falling in love--that is, until an evil [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roly-poly_toy roly-poly toy]] decides to stop the romance.

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* DamselInDistress: The girl, who cries out "Save me! Save me!" to the sailor as the villain whisks her away.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: A sweetly innocent blonde-haired blue-eyed child.
* ImagineSpot: Most of the cartoon, presumably, as the girl imagines a romance between dolls followed by a wild chase.
* MoodWhiplash: The cartoon takes an odd turn when the girl wrecks the car and winds up in doll hospital, going on the operating table. Of course the fact that all the dialogue is getting sung still undercuts the seriousness of this.
* MustacheTwirlingVillain: The roly-poly toy has a lush mustache which he actually twirls when first spotting the two dolls and deciding on his plan.
* RhymesOnADime: Most of the dialogue is sung, but the bits that aren't (the girl's chatter and the first narration) also rhymes.
* ShowSomeLeg: The sailor, dressed as the girl, does this to distract the roly-poly toy.

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