The Romance of Digestion

03/13/1937

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0hr 8min

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Comedy

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Robert Benchley

    Director

  • Felix E. Feist

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English