No. 46: Walt Disney and World War II
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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No. 46: Walt Disney and World War II from May 30, 2011
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Walt Disney and World War II: In this special Memorial Day episode from 2011, Team Mousetalgia reports on a weekend event at the Walt Disney Family Museum about the Walt Disney Studios output during World War II, featuring presentations by historian Paul F. Anderson. Learn about the various projects and films that the studio created during this critical period of American history. Also - take a closer look at one of the more famous propaganda films, "Victory Through Air Power," which Walt Disney believed would help end the war and save lives. Plus - an exclusive presentation of a 1943 radio program featuring Walt Disney talking about "Victory" - and more!
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| 0:35.6 | This is Becky, and I'm here to talk to you today about episode |
| 0:38.6 | 135, originally premiering on May 29, 2011. For anybody who knows me, they shouldn't be |
| 0:46.5 | surprised. This is one of episodes I picked. In this episode, we talk about World War II and Walt |
| 0:51.5 | Disney and his effects and his animation that he did for the |
| 0:56.1 | United States as sort of propaganda, if you will. We visit sort of a space in the Walt Disney |
| 1:02.5 | Family Museum that is dedicated to this era of history. I think it's particularly interesting |
| 1:07.9 | as we reflect back over the last few years and the role that Disney has played in politics, particularly in Florida. |
| 1:16.3 | And we're sort of been a, I don't know, I guess criticism by some about Disney being involved in politics, but actually it's nothing new. |
| 1:25.9 | So that's sort of an interesting thing to think about as well, from my opinion. |
| 1:30.5 | I hope if you have not been to the Walt Disney Family Museum, |
| 1:33.8 | it's still appropriate to go and to take a look at this era in history |
| 1:37.7 | and also do some Googling and take a look at some of these old shorts that were made. |
| 1:43.9 | Just a quick note, obviously, most of them have characters in them now that we would not |
| 1:49.8 | deem appropriate today. |
| 1:51.0 | But I think when you look at it from a historical perspective and trying to figure out what's |
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