THEA 80N Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Donald Gets Drafted, The New Spirit, Herbert Ryman
Lecture 11: Fantasia
5/8/2018
The War Years
● Bambi
○ Had to be cut down in film length due to the Strike and the War
○ Lost money for the studio
● Due to War-time, full length feature films began to seem silly
○ Cinderella, Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland were put on hold
● A lot of the animators went to fight in the war
● Wrote letters to the animators to promote moral
● Disney Studios is the leading Propaganda
○ Disney had no control over this
○ Government controls the studio
● Victory through Air Power
○ A film
○ Major Alexander de Seversky, wrote the book in 1942
■ Plays himself in the film
○ Idea of aerial bombing
○ Film didn’t do well
○ Problem with this film is that it shows no human casualties
● MPA (1944)
○ Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals
○ Walt was the first Vice President
Walt Disney Training Films Unit
● Started in October 1940
● April 1941
○ A luncheon with government officials and representatives from the defense
industry
● Animation recycling begins
The New Spirit
● Created shorts for the war
● After Pearl Harbor, the Military come and occupy the Disney Studio for the next 8
months
● Made Patriotic films, identification films, how to protect one's self from attacks
○ By 1942, the studio focused on creating films that gave information
● Main Star of the War Years with Donald Duck
○ Donald Gets Drafted
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Document Summary
Had to be cut down in film length due to the strike and the war. Due to war-time, full length feature films began to seem silly. Cinderella, peter pan and alice in wonderland were put on hold. A lot of the animators went to fight in the war. Wrote letters to the animators to promote moral. Major alexander de seversky, wrote the book in 1942. Problem with this film is that it shows no human casualties. Motion picture alliance for the preservation of american ideals. A luncheon with government officials and representatives from the defense industry. After pearl harbor, the military come and occupy the disney studio for the next 8 months. Made patriotic films, identification films, how to protect one"s self from attacks. By 1942, the studio focused on creating films that gave information. Main star of the war years with donald duck. Congress thought they should eliminate funding for the film.
