The Romance of Digestion
The Romance of Digestion

The Romance of Digestion

The Romance of Digestion

Release date : 1937-03-13

Production country :

United States of America

Production company :

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Status : Released

Durasi : 8 Min.

Popularity : 0.403

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Total Vote : 1

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.