Colonel Heeza Liar Foils the Enemy (1915)
Despite the bombs which he suffers from at the war front, war correspondent, Col. Heeza Liar succeeds to foil the enemy lines.
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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
Surprisingly incoherent and boring
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Colonel Heeza Liar, usually a purveyor of tales like Baron Munchausen, was the star of the first successful cartoon production house, J.R. Bray's operations. Although the cost of cartoon production remained high and Bray gave up animation with the coming of sound, he controlled a number of patents in the field, usually called the Bray Hurd patents, and lived very well off those for many years.The war in Europe raging and the US out of it, Colonel Liar appears in this episode of the series as a war correspondent. He skulks about the battlefield, dodging cannonballs and interviewing French officers. It's not a terribly interesting cartoon, but given its age and importance in the evolution of screen cartoons, it's worth a look.