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• Member: LantisEscudo
• Studio: Honou Productions
• Title: Reveille
• Premiered: 2017-09-28
• Categories:
  • Other
  • Fun
• Song:
  • Irving Berlin Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
• Anime:
  • Momotaro: Sacred Sailors
• Participation:
  • Anime Weekend Atlanta 23, The Professional Awards (2017-09-30)
• Comments: I've always loved using very obscure sources in AMVs, as a way of introducing something new to viewers. I stumbled across Momotaro: Sacred Sailors because of an ad on Facebook, of all places, and decided that a 1942 propaganda film was exactly the sort of obscure I wanted to try to make a video to.
  
  The audio was also something of a lucky find. I first heard “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” from my grandfather as a little kid, and only learned that it was originally an Irving Berlin showtune from his This Is the Army revue more than 25 years later. The fact that the musical was also a propaganda piece from 1942 was a nice bit of accidental symmetry.
  
  I had hoped there were more scenes in barracks to use for mentions of sleeping, but all in all, it came together pretty well. It generated a bunch of “I don’t really know what to make of this” responses at AWA Pro 2017 and got a finalist nomination in the Best Musical category, but didn’t win.