. . . as a hare-brained breeder claims toward the conclusion of SPOTLIGHT ON THE WORLD WE LIVE IN (which would be more grammatically correct IF entitled SPOTLIGHT ON THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE). Rabbits ALWAYS perambulate around on all fours, OR upon their BACK legs, in pretty much ALL the worlds in which I have lived. There's probably tons of people more expert in the Bugs Bunnies of THIS world than am I. However, our family once found a mommy bunny torn up by a predator in our front yard, and one of her apparent two young ones already starved to death underneath a nearby down spout extender. A family member placed the surviving young rabbit in a plastic critter case she kept on her bedroom desk for a week. She poured kitty litter over the bottom of this container, and regularly fed the tiny creature selected salad items. It more or less doubled in sized during the next seven days, while waking up my relative off and on each night with various animal noises. After a week of this, our family drove the little orphan to a nearby woods for a humane release. After being cooped up in a box for this short interlude, that creature was in a big hurry to scoot sway--on ALL FOUR of its legs!
2 Reviews
Rabbits "just don't 'happen' to walk around on their front paws" . . .
oscaralbert20 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Fair MGM Short
Michael_Elliott15 May 2011
Spotlight on the World We Live In (1951)
** (out of 4)
This here is a rather strange short subject from MGM. It's clear that the short subjects were being dropped by most studios in the 1950s so this one here comes off rather strange because of its subject as well as the fact that it runs 15-minutes, which is a lot longer than most "documentary" shorts. We get a wide range of stories including the first one titled "Samaritans of the Alps", which is about thirty monks who use dogs to help them find people missing in the snow. The "Sports Page" takes a look at tuna fishing as we see a fisherman catching a tuna that is nearly triple his size. Other subjects include some rabbits that do tricks as well as a section devoted to women about how lace is made. I'm really not sure what the history behind this series was and I'm even more unclear on why the studio decided to show these subjects in such a way. I can't say that the film was boring because a few of the stories are rather interesting but those that are boring should have been cut and this might have helped the film. The 15-minute running time certainly wasn't needed and if anything they should have broken this down into two films. The most interesting footage is the dog rescue team as we get to see them find what we're told is a real person. The tuna sequence was also nice but Pete Smith did this type of thing in the previous decade for the studio.
** (out of 4)
This here is a rather strange short subject from MGM. It's clear that the short subjects were being dropped by most studios in the 1950s so this one here comes off rather strange because of its subject as well as the fact that it runs 15-minutes, which is a lot longer than most "documentary" shorts. We get a wide range of stories including the first one titled "Samaritans of the Alps", which is about thirty monks who use dogs to help them find people missing in the snow. The "Sports Page" takes a look at tuna fishing as we see a fisherman catching a tuna that is nearly triple his size. Other subjects include some rabbits that do tricks as well as a section devoted to women about how lace is made. I'm really not sure what the history behind this series was and I'm even more unclear on why the studio decided to show these subjects in such a way. I can't say that the film was boring because a few of the stories are rather interesting but those that are boring should have been cut and this might have helped the film. The 15-minute running time certainly wasn't needed and if anything they should have broken this down into two films. The most interesting footage is the dog rescue team as we get to see them find what we're told is a real person. The tuna sequence was also nice but Pete Smith did this type of thing in the previous decade for the studio.
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