The Three Blind Mice

January. 01,1945      
Rating:
5.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

An animated safety film adapts the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" into a song where the mice are factory workers who disregard safety rules and wind up injuring themselves.

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Reviews

VeteranLight
1945/01/01

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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BallWubba
1945/01/02

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

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Janae Milner
1945/01/03

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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Josephina
1945/01/04

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

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MartinHafer
1945/01/05

I must be fair. THE THREE BLIND MICE appears to have been intended as an industrial safety film and not a film for the masses (or so I would hope). So, its obvious messages about safety in the factory would make sense in this context. Also, its very poor animation (relative to other cartoons of the mid-1940s) might be chalked up to this--you aren't going to have the high frame-rates, color (other than black--this is a color, I know) and smooth animation you'd have for a general release film because of the cost. Plus, seeing three rather stick-like mice being torn to pieces or smashed by machines isn't as upsetting as it would be if they were more lifelike or cute!! However, the overall effort when seen today is amazingly dull and uninspired. This is one film sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada that probably isn't worth your time and effort.

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Glenn Andreiev
1945/01/06

23 years before George Dunning made film history with YELLOW SUBMARINE he made this very strange, abstract animated short for the Canadian Safety Board. This short, using simple cut-out animation, and the song "Three--- Blind--- Mice----" tells of horrific factory accidents that befell three mice that work there. "They didn't check their machinary....those three blind mice...." is how some of the lyrics go. A bizarre party film.

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