menu the burp of a nation positive . this little ditty show up occasionally on tcm and so you might be lucky and a i be and to accidentally run across it in the end minute of a tivo recording of a classic movie . the running time state that it be 10 minute in length and but it seem much short than that . the short center on a housewife and her feeble attempt at cooking . her kitchen be in a shamble while everything she touch produce a sound effect and a wise crack from an omnipotent narrator ( pete smith ) . away from home and the husband sit in his office worry about what his wife will be concoct in the kitchen for his consumption when he get home . meanwhile and at the office and his belly be ache and so he be never far from his bicarbonate of soda and which he keep in his jacket pocket . the narrator keep everything move along very nicely a he throw in one liner and pun and wry observation of the hapless couple . the narrator also punctuate the proceeding by not only drop in many appropriate sound effect and but also by bring to life a chef to manage the wife dinner arrangement . in a puff of smoke the chef enters into the kitchen and proceeds to teach the wife how to stuff a duck and bake some apple . when the husband come home and the chef have disappear and so have the husband bicarbonate . the husband have a meal fit for a king and but he will only be king for a day and i do not think this wife could make a bowl of cereal . after watch this short and i think it be make sometime during the 1940 and but be completely shock to see ( while on imdb ) a release date of 1933. i do not know they use color as early a that . very short and very tasty and easily digestible . positive . clark richards .