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Babes in Toyland
Wooden Soldiers and Bogeymen as Racial Allegory
An interpretation of Hal Roach’s Babes in Toyland by Hadding Scott HAL ROACH’S 1934 film Babes in Toyland was later given the alternate title March of the Wooden Soldiers. Here, to avoid confusion with the 1903 operetta and 1904 children’s book of the same name (or the 1961 Disney film, which…