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The Romance of Digestion

1937

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and digesting food. The on-screen narrator begins with teeth, "little sentinels" as he calls them, and the tongue. Then it's on to the stomach: he describes the stomach's workings as if it were an office or a factory. He uses an illustration of the side view of a human torso, with mouth, esophagus, and stomach visible, saying it's a photograph of a man with a visible digestive tract.

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Robert Benchley

as Joe Doakes

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Basic Information
Status
Released
Release Date
3/13/1937
Runtime
0 hours, 8 minutes
Original Language
EN
Financial
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Genres
Comedy
Production Countries
United States of America (US)
Spoken Languages
English (en)
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer