Swing Shift Cinderella

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Swing Shift Cinderella is a 1945 Tex Avery animated short film that parodies the Cinderella fairy tale with wartime and adult-humor twists.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tex Avery film
animated short film
cartoon
animationStudioUnit MGM cartoon studio
animationType traditional hand-drawn animation
backgroundArtist John Didrik Johnsen NERFINISHED
basedOn Cinderella fairy tale NERFINISHED
colorProcess Technicolor
containsElement adult humor
slapstick comedy
wartime setting
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Tex Avery NERFINISHED
distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
featuresCharacter Cinderella NERFINISHED
Fairy Godmother
Red Hot Riding Hood-style girl
Wolf NERFINISHED
featuresLocation city street
nightclub
featuresTheme World War II home front
gender role reversal
nightclub culture
followsWork Red Hot Riding Hood NERFINISHED
genre animated fantasy
comedy
parody
hasCensorshipIssues yes
hasCultFollowing yes
hasMedium theatrical short subject
hasNarrativeDevice breaking the fourth wall
self-aware narrator
intendedFormat cinema exhibition
layoutArtist Claude Smith NERFINISHED
musicBy Scott Bradley NERFINISHED
notableFor fast-paced gag style
risqué humor for its time
wartime references
originalLanguage English
parodiesWork Cinderella NERFINISHED
partOfSeries Tex Avery MGM cartoons NERFINISHED
producer Fred Quimby NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1945-07-07
releaseYear 1945
runtimeMinutes 8
setInPeriod World War II era
studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED
targetAudience general audiences
title Swing Shift Cinderella NERFINISHED

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Tex Avery notableWork Swing Shift Cinderella