The Romance of Digestion (1937)
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.
Director: Felix E. Feist
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Robert Benchley as Joe Doakes |
| Writing | Felix E. Feist | Writer |
| Directing | Felix E. Feist | Director |
| Writing | Robert Benchley | Writer |
