Don't Be a Sucker!
Full film
StarringLloyd Nolan,
Bob Bailey,
Paul Lukas,
Ivan Triesault,
Richard Lane,
George Chandler,
Chick Chandler,
Felix Bressart[1]
Distributed byUnited States Department of War
Release dates
  • July 4, 1943 (1943-07-04)

1947 (shorter version)[2]
Running time
18 minutes (1943),
17 minutes 21 seconds (1947)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Don't Be a Sucker! (Não seja otário!) é um curta metragem produzido pelo Departamento de Guerra dos Estados Unidos em 1947, adaptado de uma versão mais longa feita em 1943. O filme aborda temas anti-racistas e anti-fascistas. O filme foi feita para tratar casos de desagregação das forças armadas americanas

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An American who has been listening to a racist and bigoted rabble-rouser is warned off by a naturalized Hungarian immigrant, who explains to him how racist and bigoted demagogy allowed the Nazis to rise to power in Germany, and warns Americans not to fall for similar demagogy propagated by American racists and bigots.[3][2]

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In August 2017, the short film went viral on the internet in the aftermath of the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia[4][5] and various copies have been uploaded to video sharing sites in the past year.[6]

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References

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  1. ^ Don't be a Sucker at IMDb
  2. ^ a b Cooper, Eunice; Schneider, Helen (17 March 1948). "Don't Be a Sucker" A Study of An Anti-Discrimination Film. Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ Stanford University. Department of Scientific Research. New York: American Jewish Committee. pp. 1–44. Archived from the original on 2017-02-12. Retrieved August 17, 2017. "Don't Be A Sucker" is an anti-discrimination film which was produced during World War II by the Army Signal Corps for use with the armed forces. After the war, a shortened version of the film was widely shown both commercially and under educational auspices. In 1947, the Department of Scientific Research of the American Jewish Committee undertook to study the impact of the film. (The data were collected with the cooperation of the Institute of Social Research.) {{cite web}}: Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help) (PDF)
  3. ^ Meyer, Robinson (13 August 2017). "Why an Anti-Fascist Short Film Is Going Viral". The Atlantic. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  4. ^ Gabbatt, Adam (14 August 2017). "How a 1947 US government anti-Nazi film went viral after Charlottesville". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  5. ^ Hawkins, Derek (14 August 2017). "After Charlottesville violence, World War II anti-fascist propaganda video finds a new audience". The Washington Post. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  6. ^ "This anti-Nazi film went viral after Charlottesville. It may be less effective than it seems". Vox. Retrieved 2017-08-21.

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Other sources

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  • Cooper, Eunice; Schneider, Helen (17 March 1948). "Don't Be a Sucker" A Study of An Anti-Discrimination Film. Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ Stanford University. Department of Scientific Research. New York: American Jewish Committee. pp. 1–44. Archived from the original on 2017-02-12. Retrieved August 17, 2017. "Don't Be A Sucker" is an anti-discrimination film which was produced during World War II by the Army Signal Corps for use with the armed forces. After the war, a shortened version of the film was widely shown both commercially and under educational auspices. In 1947, the Department of Scientific Research of the American Jewish Committee undertook to study the impact of the film. (The data were collected with the cooperation of the Institute of Social Research.) {{cite web}}: Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help) (PDF)
  • Cooper, Eunice; Dinerman, Helen (1 January 1951). "Analysis of the Film "Don't Be a Sucker"" A Study in Communication. Public Opinion Quarterly. 15 (2). Oxford University Press: 243–264. doi:10.1086/266306. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |lay-url=, |lay-date=, and |lay-source= (help); Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help)
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