Name: The Romance of Digestion
Director: Felix E. Feist
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1937-03-13
Duration: 8 min
Cast: Robert Benchley

The Romance of Digestion (1937)

About The Romance of Digestion Movie

The Romance of Digestion, released in 1937, is a Comedy Movie from director Felix E. Feist. Featuring Robert Benchley. 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.

Movie Details

Release Date13 Mar 1937

Runtime8m

StatusReleased

DirectorFelix E. Feist

GenreComedy

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