Robert C. Bruce
Also Known As: Robert Cameron Bruce Jr.
Biography: Robert C. Bruce, Jr. was a voice actor, and the son of Robert C. Bruce who was also an actor. He was the narrator for a number of Warner Bros. cartoons in the 1930s and 1940s. The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series' had occasional entries which were driven not by one of their stable of stars such as Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, but by individual short sketches, usually filled with sight gags and word-play.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: White Salmon, Washington, USA
Birthday: October 06, 1914
Deathday: August 24, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Fresh Fish
Overview: A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse race, and many other puns. Among the running gags, a two-headed fish who keeps asking for directions to Mr. Ripley and a professor in a diving sphere looking for a rare wim-wam whistling shark.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Sioux Me
Overview: When there is a drought on an Indian reservation, everyone is in desperate need of water so that they can quench their thirst, their crops can grow, the animals will provide them food, etc. But rather than having to wait for the rain to come the old-fashioned way, a weather pill pertaining to that is used to bring instant showers.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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Africa Squeaks
Overview: Porky Pig goes on a safari in Africa, and runs into an assortment of crazy animals, wacky natives and Kay Kyser giving dance lessons in the middle of the jungle.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Dog Tales
Overview: Man's best friend is the subject of a series of blackout gags, climaxing with the bogus heroism of a dog who travels across the country for an unexpected purpose.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-25
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Of Thee I Sting
Overview: A mosquito army trains for, then goes on, an attack mission.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-17
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Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
Overview: Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl was released in conjunction with Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire None of these shorts have been released on disc before, and Chuck Jones's "Daffy Dilly" (1948) is a welcome addition to any cartoon library. Daffy sets out to win the money a gloomy millionaire is offering to anyone who can make him laugh--and succeeds in spite of himself. But many of these cartoons are, simply, duds. "This Is a Life?" (1955), "People Are Bunny" (1959), and "Person to Bunny" (1960) spoof largely forgotten TV shows. How many viewers under 65 will recognize caricatures of Art Linkletter and Edward R. Murrow? The films pitting Daffy against Bugs play like weak remakes of Jones's "Rabbit Fire" trilogy or Friz Freleng's "Show Biz Bugs"--"Person to Bunny" even repeats some of Daffy's tap dance to "Jeepers Creepers" in "Show Biz." The very late "Suppressed Duck" (1965) is painfully unfunny. Once again, some of the films have been inexplicably cropped to simulate a widescreen format.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-10
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Feline Frame-Up
Overview: After Claude frames Marc Antony, making it look like the bulldog ate the kitty, Marc must try various methods of getting back at Claude from outside the yard.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-13
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Bacall to Arms
Overview: Movie patrons watch and interact with a variety of short subjects and a spoof of the film "To Have and Have Not."
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-03
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Booby Traps
Overview: Pvt. Snafu thinks he's too smart to get caught by an enemy booby trap, but he soon finds that the traps are alluring and that he is every bit the booby.
Genres: Animation Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-15
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Bugs' Bonnets
Overview: A passing truck spills a variety of hats, causing Elmer and Bugs to change personalities in rapid succession to fit the headgear they wind up wearing.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-14
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Outpost
Overview: Snafu has an object lesson on the value of complete and accurate regular reports when he discovers and reports evidence of the enemy's presence at his assigned area.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-15
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Target Snafu
Overview: An armada of malaria-laden mosquitoes seeks human targets and finds Private Snafu, who fails to protect himself adequately against their onslaught.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-15
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A Few Quick Facts: Fear
Overview: Private Snafu learns about fear
Genres: Animation Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-15
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It's Murder She Says...
Overview: A haggard mosquito complains how tough life is with the military taking the proper precautions against malaria infection.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-15
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Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu in the Navy
Overview: Private Snafu (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) presents his brother Tarfu (Things Are Really Fucked Up) who was a carrier pigeon keeper and has joined the Navy
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-02
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Orange Blossoms for Violet
Overview: In this short, with the sound effects and voices of the Warner Bros animation shorts, but with black and white footage of monkeys and other animals, we see a struggle between two boy monkeys and the girl they love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-23
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Saps in Chaps
Overview: Sagebrush site gags depicting wild west wackiness.
Genres: Animation Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-10
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We, the Animals - Squeak!
Overview: Porky hosts a radio program, where animals tell their stories. The guest star is Kansas City Kitty, the best mouser in the country. She tells the story of her life, including her marriage to Tom Collins, the birth of Little Patrick (not necessarily in that order), and the turning point of her life. The mice have plotted out a major operation like gangsters. They sneak out and kidnap Patrick and hold him hostage...
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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The Chewin' Bruin
Overview: A bear hunter tells Porky the tale of a hunt 30 years ago: a bear got a taste of his chewing tobacco and chased him down to get it; the hunter took the bear on with his bare hands rather than lose the tobacco. Or at least, that's the way he told the story.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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Swallow the Leader
Overview: Migrating swallows are making their annual spring return to San Juan Capistrano, and a hungry cat awaits them.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-14
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A Gander at Mother Goose
Overview: A series of gags based on Mother Goose stories.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-25
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Russian Rhapsody
Overview: As Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-20
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Plane Daffy
Overview: Daffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get.
Genres: Animation War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-16
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Farm Frolics
Overview: A series of wacky vignettes involving farm animals.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-10
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Punch Trunk
Overview: A tiny elephant emerges from a banana boat and wanders about town, causing an uproar among the populace. Sightings are attributed variously to mass hysteria, insanity and dipsomania.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-19
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Bravo, Mr. Strauss
Overview: As the goose-stepping "Screwball Army" pillages Europe, a statue of Mr. Strauss (symbol to defeat Hitler) comes to life with violin in hand. Like a Pied Piper, Strauss leads the nuts and bolts to drown in the Danube River.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-26
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The Bear's Tale
Overview: The Three Bears meets Little Red Riding Hood, told in the style of Tex Avery.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-13
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Buckaroo Bugs
Overview: Red Hot Ryder is sent to catch the Masked Marauder (Bugs Bunny) who is terrorizing a small Western town.
Genres: Animation Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-26
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Crazy Cruise
Overview: A collection of various gags in the form of a travelogue.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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Meet John Doughboy
Overview: Porky introduces a newsreel of wartime spot gags, including a spoof of the RKO Pictures logo, and caricatures of Jack Benny and Rochester.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-05
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The Hole Idea
Overview: A scientist invents the portable hole, only to have a thief steal his samples to go on a crime spree.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-16
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Wagon Heels
Overview: Porky leads a wagon train into "Injun Joe Territory," and finally comes up against the fearsome Superchief. But Sloppy Moe, a survivor of a previous Injun Joe attack, knows something about him he won't tell... until the very end.
Genres: Animation Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-25
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Fox Pop
Overview: Hearing that silver foxes are all the rage in high society, a fox paints himself silver and gets himself trapped, finding out too late that it's only his fur anyone is interested in.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Hobo Bobo
Overview: Little Bobo the Elephant decides to leave a jungle, where he is assigned to the thankless task of moving logs with his trunk, for a glamorous life in a circus in America. On the advice of a minah bird, Bobo paints himself pink to gain access to a ship bound for the U.S., because nobody on the ship will admit to seeing a pink elephant much less act to remove the presumed hallucination. After Bobo arrives in America, a steet-cleaner washes his pink color away, and people are now willing to acknowledge seeing the little elephant. Bobo is arrested by the police and chained for trial by judge, and the judge sentences him to life - in a circus, where he is bat "boy" for the big top baseball team, and laments that he's carrying logs (i.e. bats) yet again!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-16
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Fair and Worm-er
Overview: One long chase: worm chases apple; bird chases worm; cat chases bird; dog chases cat; dogcatcher chases dog; dogcatcher's wife chases dogcatcher; mouse chases dogcatcher's wife. With occasional interruptions by a skunk.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-27
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Porky's Snooze Reel
Overview: Porky Pig narrates a very strange newsreel.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-11
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Robinson Crusoe Jr.
Overview: Stranded on an island after his ship was wrecked by a hurricane, Porky meets a friendly African Native. They build a house, and Porky begins to explore the island. On his way we see various sight gags.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-24
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The Bug Parade
Overview: A spot gag cartoon presenting amusing facts about bugs.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-11
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Point Rationing of Foods
Overview: Animated documentary short film demonstrating the reasons and methods of the point system of wartime food rationing.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-25
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Pilgrim Porky
Overview: The Pilgrims, led by captain Porky Pig, set sail from Plymouth for America. We get a series of ocean sailing blackout gags, including a running bit between our narrator and the cook, looking for a fish suitable for dinner, a singing trio interrupted by seasickness, flying fish (in airplanes). Then, The Rains Came. A collision with an iceberg is narrowly averted. Land is sighted. The pilgrims are welcomed by Chief Sitting Bull.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Daffy Doodles
Overview: Porky Pig is hot on the trail of a vandal painting mustaches on signs everywhere (Daffy Duck).
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-06
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Nasty Quacks
Overview: A doting father gives a cute little duckling to his little daughter. That duckling grows up to become Daffy Duck, who soon develops quite a night life, which he loudly explains at breakfast, in the process of eating everything in sight. When the exasperated father's attempts at violently removing Daffy fail, he tries one final measure to drive Daffy away...
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-01
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Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
Overview: This must-have animation collection "Looney Tunes Super Stars: Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl" (2010) is filled with shorts that have been released on disc before and will delight any Looney Tunes fans. Episodes include "Tick Tock Tuckered," "Nasty Quacks," Chuck Jones's "Daffy Dilly" (1948), "Wise Quackers," "The Prize Pest," "Design for Leaving," "Stork Naked," "This is a Life?" (1955), "Dime to Retire," "Ducking the Devil," "People Are Bunny" (1959), "Person to Bunny" (1960), "Daffy's Inn Trouble," "The Iceman Ducketh" and "Suppressed Duck" (1965).
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-10
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Ceiling Hero
Overview: A series of blackout gags parodying aviation and aviation films. Gags include a parchutist whose parachute reads "Good to the last drop", jokes about LA's expanding city limits, and a satire of test pilot and their bravery.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-23
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Wacky Wildlife
Overview: A series of typical Avery spot gags set around wild animals. A dainty deer drinks very loudly and rudely from a lake. A pack rat swaps an egg and an acorn, then back again ("monotonous, isn't it?"). A flock of ducks lands; a hunter fires; all fly away, except one with an American flag on its side. A termite fells a huge tree. A cowboy rides across the plains well, no; his horse is just slapping itself with the front hooves. A coyote calls to its mate: "Hey, Mabel, come on out!" A camel contradicts the narrator, saying he's really thirsty. A wild dog: because of the lumbermen.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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Aviation Vacation
Overview: An animated around-the-world trip by airplane.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-02
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A Day at the Zoo
Overview: A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Egghead teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-11
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Fin'n Catty
Overview: "As everyone knows," the narrator begins, "goldfish must have water... and cats hate water." And so it goes.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-23
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Dangerous Dan McFoo
Overview: An arctic saloon. The tiny dog, Dan McFoo, is playing a pinball-like marble game in the back. His girlfriend, Sue, sounding like Katharine Hepburn, stands by. A stranger comes in with eyes for Sue; he begins a boxing match with Dan. After Dan gets knocked down, he accuses the stranger of having something in the glove; the ref finds four horseshoes and a horse. After the fight goes on a while with no conclusion, the narrator tosses a couple of guns, the lights go out, and Dan is shot or is he?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-15
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The Film Fan
Overview: Porky Pig is on his way to the store to pick up some groceries for his mother when he walks by a sign saying that the local movie theater is having a "kids admitted free" day. The excited Porky rushes in and views a series of spoofs of newsreels, movie trailers, feature films, and even the Lone Ranger!
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-16
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Salt Water Daffy
Overview: A narrator tells how military recruits are trained on land and sea. Men get a physical, undergo basic training, do duties on board ship for gunnery practice, clean the decks, and prepare for battle.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-09
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The Hardship of Miles Standish
Overview: In this version of "The Courtship of Miles Standish", Elmer Fudd is messanger John Alden, sent to give Miles' love letter to Pricilla. While delivering the message, however, her house is attacked by Indians, and John is the only one who can save her.
Genres: Comedy Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-26
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A Lecture on Camouflage
Overview: Using Snafu as an example, Techanical Fairy First Class teaches the methods of effective camouflage.
Genres: Animation War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-15
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Rover's Rival
Overview: Porky reads a book of new dog tricks; unfortunately, his dog, Rover, is old. A puppy comes by and taunts him.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Crowing Pains
Overview: Henery Hawk hides in an egg to catch his first chicken, while Foghorn Leghorn tells him that Sylvester is the real chicken and the farm dog joins in the fun.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-12
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Bugs Bunny Rides Again
Overview: In the Western town of Rising Gorge, Bugs faces off against Yosemite Sam, "the roughest, toughest, he-man stuffest hombre who's ever crossed the Rio Grande."
Genres: Animation Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-12
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Who's Who in the Zoo
Overview: A wacky travelogue takes us to the zoo, where Porky Pig is the keeper and goofy animals provide the basis for a series of black-out gags.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-14
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What's Cookin' Doc?
Overview: At the Academy Awards ceremony, Bugs Bunny tries to convince the audience that he deserves the Oscar. Opens with live action scenes of Hollywood.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-08
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Bonanza Bunny
Overview: Bugs fights with Blacque Jacque Shellacque over Klondike gold.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-05
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Gone Batty
Overview: Bobo the Elephant is baseball team mascot for the lean and meek Sweetwater Shnooks, all of whom are rendered unconscious by their opponents, the husky and brutal Greenville Goons. The Shnooks' manager, rather than forfeit the game, decides to bring in Bobo to play every position - and he does rather well!
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-03
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Rookie Revue
Overview: Random gags around military life, set on an army base. A bugler uses a jukebox to play reveille. In formation, one private has a great deal of trouble remembering what comes after "3"; after he gets it, he decides not to go for the $32 question. In the mess hall, the machine gunners machine gun their food while the bombers catch falling biscuits. The infantry marches for miles - past a "next time, take the train" billboard.
Genres: War Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-25
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Having a Wonderful Time with Angels in Dirty Places
Overview: Parody short about Leon Schlesinger and his company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-25
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