An instant hit on wartime radio broadcasts, it was written by walt disney studios composer oliver wallace. The cartoon had donald duck in a nightmare working in munitions plant, eating stale bread, and dunking a coffee bean into water once to conserve the taste all the while giving continuous heil hitler salutes. It does this by subjecting hitler and the nazis to ridicule, both through the use of germanic language, and the message in the lyrics. He made a public presentation of the book at one of the locs meettheauthor book signings.
Every inch of frame is peppered with multifarious allegories that help define its pressing message, whether its the countless swastikas strewn throughout the art design what disneys celebration would have looked like if we lost the war. Donald duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a nazi artillery factory. Donald duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting nazi food rations and then with his. Its probably the most famous propaganda cartoon in american history. Topics nazi propaganda, walt disney, vintage cartoons, world war ii. Ive read that book, and still i dont think he was the monster people call him. If you want to start a disney derfuehrersface page, just click the edit button above. Journalist konrad heiden was one of the first to hear the young adolf h.
Heidens narrative style is detailed and comprehensive. The national wwii museum blog is proudly powered by wordpress 4. The cartoon, which features donald duck, won the academy award for best animated short film at the 15th academy awards. It was made in an effort to sell war bonds, and won an academy award for best animated short.
Donald is awoken by a silly march band singing the sarcastic title song penned by disney composer oliver wallace and sung with gusto by spike jones. Written by joe grant and huemer the writing team responsible for dumbo among other classics, it was. The purpose of this video was to display antinazi propaganda for the american war effort in wwii and was supported by the united states government. It was directed by jack kinney and released on january 1, 1943 as an antinazi propaganda film for the american war effort. This repudiation of the individual warrior scholar model of power is covered from. Its really funny to see how the third reich is ridiculed in this cartoon. The film won the 1943 academy award for best animated short film and was the.
The attached photo shows a case of walt disneys personal academy awards. Each segment and story arc builds on a substantial framework of heidens core position. Government as a series of propaganda posters of world war ii. Donald has a nightmare that he is living in nazi germany, envisioning bayonet discipline, starvation, hard work on the munitions assembly line, and heiling hitler.
You have to activate the subtitle first donald duck working in an amunition factory nazideutschland. Shows the importance of propaganda even in cartoons for kids. The mood and tone of the song is made even more ridiculous by the accompaniment of each shouted. They remained hidden until 2002 when 500 decks were privately printed with help from the library. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system.
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