The Romance of Digestion
MovieTitle | The Romance of Digestion |
User score | 8 |
Release date | Mar 13, 1937 |
Genre | Comedy |
Director | Felix E. Feist |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Run time | 8 min. |
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.