So Much for So Little

{{short description|1949 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = So Much for So Little

| image = SoMuchSoLittle-TC.png

| caption =

| director = Charles M. Jones
Friz Freleng{{cite web |title=MichaelBarrier.com -- "What's New" Archives: June 2012 |url=http://www.michaelbarrier.com/WhatsNewArchives/2012/WhatsNewArchivesJune12.htm |website=www.michaelbarrier.com |access-date=8 January 2021}}

| producer = Edward Selzer

| writer = Friz Freleng
Chuck Jones

| narrator = Frank Graham

| music = Carl Stalling

| starring = Mel Blanc

| animator = Ben Washam
Ken Harris
Phil Monroe
Lloyd Vaughan

| layout_artist = Robert Gribbroek

| background_artist = Paul Julian
Peter Alvarado

| editing = Treg Brown

| studio = Warner Bros. Cartoons
United States Public Health Service

| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.

| released = {{film date|1949|1|1}}

| runtime = 10 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

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So Much for So Little is a 1949 American animated short documentary film directed by Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.{{cite book |last1=Schneider |first1=Steve |title=That's All, Folks! : The Art of Warner Bros. Animation |date=1988 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0889-6 |page=98}} In 1950, it won an Oscar at the 22nd Academy Awards for Documentary Short Subject, tying with A Chance to Live.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1950 |title=The 22nd Academy Awards (1950) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 18, 2011|work=oscars.org| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093814/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/22nd-winners.html| archive-date=July 6, 2011 | url-status= live}}{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/148331/So-Much-for-So-Little/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520033515/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/148331/So-Much-for-So-Little/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2011 |title=New York Times: So Much for So Little |access-date=May 26, 2008}} It was created by Warner Bros. Cartoons for the United States Public Health Service. As a work of the United States Government, the film is in the public domain. The Academy Film Archive preserved So Much for So Little in 2005.{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=So+much+for+so+little&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}} Produced during the Harry S. Truman administration, it attained renewed relevance during the modern Medicare for All movement in the United States, nearly seven decades later.{{Cite web |url=https://boingboing.net/2017/05/03/greatest-generation.html |title=This 70-year-old cartoon made a hell of an argument for single-payer healthcare |date=April 3, 2017 |website=BoingBoing}}