So Much for So Little
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So Much for So Little is a 1949 American animated short documentary film directed by Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.[1] In 1950, it won an Oscar at the 22nd Academy Awards for Documentary Short Subject, tying with A Chance to Live.[2][3] It was created by Warner Bros. Cartoons for the United States Public Health Service. As a work of the United States Government, the film is in the public domain. The Academy Film Archive preserved So Much for So Little in 2005.[4] Produced during the Harry S. Truman administration, it attained renewed relevance during the modern Medicare for All movement in the United States, nearly seven decades later.[5]
Plot
The cartoon begins by stating that, annually, 118,481 babies — out of well over two million born — will die before reaching their first birthday. From there, we are shown John E. Jones, a baby who, unless good oversight of the environment is maintained and John himself is provided consistently good healthcare, may potentially add to this statistic.
Most of John's life is depicted: his school years, marriage, later life (as a father), and his golden years. Along the way, health service information is detailed. Before the film ends, it rewinds and returns to John as a baby, reminding the audience about the importance of proper, ongoing care availability to ensure he enjoys a robust, full life. The viewers are informed that it costs each American just three cents a week to safeguard John's, and all babies', well being.
Home media
This documentary short appeared as bonus features in Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1. It was remastered in Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection: 15 Winners and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection.
See also
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- So Much for So Little at the National Archives and Records Administration
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- 1949 films
- 1949 short documentary films
- 1940s Warner Bros. animated short films
- American short documentary films
- Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
- Short films directed by Chuck Jones
- American animated documentary films
- Documentary films about health care
- American social guidance and drug education films
- Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
- Films scored by Carl Stalling
- 1940s English-language films
- English-language short documentary films
- 1949 animated short films
- Short films directed by Friz Freleng
- Films with screenplays by Chuck Jones