So Much for So Little

So Much for So Little (1949)

Little Johnny Jones, to be born in the next year, is shown growing to a ripe, healthy old age, thanks to the efforts of his local public health officers. But without them, he might be one of the 5% or so that dies in the first year. The price for the public health service: about 3 cents a week. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Date of release
1949-03-16
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (23)
Runtime
10m
Genres
Documentary, Animation, Family, Comedy
Director
Chuck Jones

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

So Much for So Little is a 1949 American animated short documentary film directed by Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng. In 1950, it won an Oscar at the 22nd Academy Awards for Documentary Short Subject, tying with A Chance to Live. 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. 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.

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