The Romance of Digestion

The Romance of Digestion  - Movie (1937)

Original title

The Romance of Digestion

Released

3/13/1937

Origin country

US

Genre

Comedy

Production companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Budget

Revenue

Runtime

0hr 8min

Description

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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