{"id":9863,"date":"2026-07-01T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/?p=9863"},"modified":"2026-07-01T00:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:30:48","slug":"somewhere-in-dreamland-1936-kids-escape-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/?p=9863","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere In Dreamland (1936) | Kids Escape Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Somewhere In Dreamland (1936) | Kids Escape Poverty\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RhbSehekv-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Produced by Paramount\u00a0Pictures\u00a0and directed by Dave Fleischer and Seymour Kneitel,\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kids Escape Poverty<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0is an animated short\u00a0that\u00a0was Fleisher Studios<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0first\u00a0technicolour\u00a0animation. A<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">part of the Color Classics series, the short was produced and set during the\u00a0Great Depression\u00a0and\u00a0portrays\u00a0childhood poverty and community. The story follows two siblings, a\u00a0boy\u00a0and a girl. The short opens\u00a0with the siblings collecting firewood in town.\u00a0Along\u00a0their way,\u00a0they pass by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a tailor, a baker, and a toy maker<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0then\u00a0stop by the\u00a0bakery\u00a0to admire the treats inside. The baker rushes out to offer them a\u00a0treat,\u00a0but the children have already moved on.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0The towns<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">folk take note of the children&#8217;s situation and\u00a0gather\u00a0to make a plan. The children make it home,\u00a0to\u00a0a\u00a0broken-down\u00a0cabin made of wood. Their mother offers them dinner, a hardened piece of bread. The children must think with ingenuity to eat their dinner, dunking it in water. The mother does not\u00a0eat. At the proclamation that the young boy is still hungry, his mother bursts into tears, and the boy comforts her by saying he was only \u201cfoolin<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d\u00a0While\u00a0getting ready for bed,\u00a0the children sing the\u00a0song\u00a0\u201cSomewhere\u00a0in\u00a0Dreamland\u201d and tuck themselves\u00a0in under\u00a0hole-riddled blankets. The children fall asleep and enter\u00a0Dreamland, a nonsensical world that\u00a0contains\u00a0a\u00a0bounty\u00a0of\u00a0things,\u00a0including\u00a0new clothes, giant presents,\u00a0ever-growing ice cream\u00a0cones\u00a0and comfortable beds. There is a lovely\u00a0three-dimensional\u00a0shot between 6:22 &#8211; 6:29, that depicts the children riding on a chocolate\u00a0cake-animal cracker merrie go-round. Waking up<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the children are surprised by their neighbors<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0who\u00a0have\u00a0rallied together to provide them with food,\u00a0presents,\u00a0and festive decorations.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(Duration: 9:06)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids Escape Poverty is a Fleischer Studios animated short that discusses childhood poverty and community. It follows the story of two children, who cope with their poverty by dreaming up a magical land where they have all their needs met. In the end their community ralley around them to provide the children with a nice meal and presents.<br \/>\n(Duration: 9:06) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","category-frontpage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9865,"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863\/revisions\/9865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarebit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}