Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Verwitterte Melodie, or Weather-beaten Melody, is a 1942 animated short, created by the Nazis as propaganda material. It was written by cartoonist Horst von Möllendorff and animated by Jiri Brdecka. It was animated in Prague, Germany. The general outline of the plot is of a bee that finds an abandoned phonograph in a meadow. The record, however, is jazz, and the interaction of different species of bugs makes this a subtle criticism of the Nazi ideals. Subversive propaganda? This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.