Peace on Earth (1939)

Directors

Hugh Harman

The story

On Christmas Eve, a grandfather squirrel visits his two young grandchildren, who ask him who the "men" are in the phrase "Peace on Earth, good will to men." He recalls that men went extinct when he was a young child. Through flashbacks, he remembers them only as "monsters" wearing "great, big iron pots on their heads" (helmets), "walked on their hind legs" (bipedalism), carrying "terrible-looking shootin'-irons with knives on the end of them" (bayonets), whose "eyes flashed" (goggles), and had "these tremendous big snoots (snouts), like this, that curled down and fastened onto their stomachs" (gas masks). Always going to war, finding an…

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