Van Beuren Studios, 1935, The Sunshine Makers. a group of jolly gnomes carpet-bombs a downer village with sunshine then mounts a ground offensive to force the remaining hostiles to submit to happiness

Leone's DUCK, YOU SUCKER! (1974). good shot.

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see also

George Cukor's HOLIDAY (1938): weird motif of Cary Grant doing flips for no reason

kaurismäki remains unmatched as a director of action scenes

paper on embedded quotations accepted w/no further revisions at Linguistic Inquiry. here's some hidden camera footage of me deciding whether or not I should cite Andrew Clements' 1996 middle-grade novel Frindle to support one of my arguments

ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007...

prepping my semantics classes for the coming semester