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THIEF: A 1934 Soviet cartoon with commentary by Milton Knight!

Anti-US and war related issues "cutened " to indoctrinate youth, very evident in early Japanese animation as well. The grim elimination of the enemy is sweetened by depicting him as an unraveling line of string. (Popular animated euphemisms for death included characters plunged into water or blown thru walls "never to be seen again".) The art style is very much spun off the early SCRAPPY cartoons by Dick Heumer and the inking style of the OUT OF THE INKWELL cartoons, also presided over by Heumer, although the Russians probably didn't know his name or connect the two series. Directed by Aleksandr Vasilievich Ivanov. He would later denounce his early US influence, which was the prudent thing to do. This is a not-for-profit video. For studies only.