Most of the copies of this film are jumpy, but this one is the best copy out there. It was made in an effort to sell war bonds, and won an academy award for best animated short. Heidens narrative style is detailed and comprehensive. Its probably the most famous propaganda cartoon in american history. The national wwii museum blog is proudly powered by wordpress 4. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. They remained hidden until 2002 when 500 decks were privately printed with help from the library. Topics nazi propaganda, walt disney, vintage cartoons, world war ii. Its really funny to see how the third reich is ridiculed in this cartoon. 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. It was directed by jack kinney and released on january 1, 1943 as an antinazi propaganda film for the american war effort.
If you want to start a synopsis derfuehrersface page, just click the edit button above. An instant hit on wartime radio broadcasts, it was written by walt disney studios composer oliver wallace. 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. Donald duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting nazi food rations and then with his. 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. You have to activate the subtitle first donald duck working in an amunition factory nazideutschland. To this all i can say is, i hope we can all agree that.
The goal is to make the nazis look ridiculous and harmless, to strip away their menace while making the viewer appreciate their own freedoms. 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. This repudiation of the individual warrior scholar model of power is covered from. It does this by subjecting hitler and the nazis to ridicule, both through the use of germanic language, and the message in the lyrics. Ive read that book, and still i dont think he was the monster people call him. The attached photo shows a case of walt disneys personal academy awards. The film won the 1943 academy award for best animated short film and was the.
The mood and tone of the song is made even more ridiculous by the accompaniment of each shouted. The cartoon, which features donald duck, won the academy award for best animated short film at the 15th academy awards. Each segment and story arc builds on a substantial framework of heidens core position. He made a public presentation of the book at one of the locs meettheauthor book signings.
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. 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. Written by joe grant and huemer the writing team responsible for dumbo among other classics, it was. Shows the importance of propaganda even in cartoons for kids.
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