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The Hole

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 The Hole is an animated short film (15 minutes) from 1962, directed by John Hubley and Faith Hubley.Two construction workers (one of whom is voiced by famed jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie) are in a hole well below the streets of New York, jackhammering away. While they work they chat idly about things like buying health insurance and the nature of accidents. Eventually their conversation turns to the possibility of nuclear war. The two workers debate the possibility of an accident leading to the launching of nuclear missiles.Not to be confused with a completely unrelated horror film. Over a decade later, Dizzy Gillespie would lend his voice to another Hubley short, Voyage to Next.
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 Speech-Centric Work: Nothing really happens; the whole cartoon is two construction workers having a long conversation.
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 Seinfeldian Conversation: The workers chat aimlessly about things like buying insurance and dropping fancy dinner glasses before wandering onto the subject of nuclear war.
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 I Am the Noun
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 I Am the Noun: The black worker proudly proclaims, "I am the government!", since the U.S. Constitution begins with "We the People", and his taxes help pay the President's salary.
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 Medium Blending: Real clippings of newspaper are used to represent the paper the workers are reading; tellingly, they are all about nuclear weapons.
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 Unwitting Instigator of Doom
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 Unwitting Instigator of Doom: A gopher digging through a radar station almost causes a nuclear launch. Whether it's actually happening or just an imagined scenario is left to interpretation.
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 A Nuclear Error
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 A Nuclear Error: Discussed Trope. The more skeptical worker says that science isn't infallible, and suggests that accidents could lead to a nuclear holocaust. The short includes animation of a gopher gnawing away at the power lines to the radar at a nuclear missile early warning radar station.
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 Foreshadowing
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 Foreshadowing: One of the construction workers reads a newspaper that is filled with stories about nuclear weapons and Cold War tensions, foreshadowing the direction the conversation will take. The film occasionally cuts to a piece of heavy machinery being hoisted up. It falls at the end with a loud noise, which the workers briefly mistake for a nuclear explosion.
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 Desolation Shot
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 Desolation Shot: The film ends with a shot of the city leveled by a nuclear attack. It's actually an Imagine Spot caused by the shock of hearing falling equipment, and the shot fades back to normal once the workers realize this.
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 No Ending
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 No Ending: The workers' discussion is interrupted by a loud bang caused by heavy equipment being accidentally dropped from a great height, which makes them think that there has been a nuclear strike. Once they realize what had actually happened, they go back to work without saying a word.
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