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It's Tuesday, April 26th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today.

How the CIA funded that 1954 animated adaptation of Animal Farm as part of their anti-communist

propaganda campaign.

Plus, the woman who found out she'd been missing a chunk of her brain

for most of her life without realizing. And why more and more rivers are being granted

legal personhood. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. So last Wednesday, I mentioned

that Andy Circus is directing a new cartoon adaptation of George Orwell's

Animal Farm, and I casually slipped into that announcement how the existing 1954 cartoon adaptation,

which many of us may have watched in classrooms growing up, was covertly funded by the CIA as anti-communist propaganda.

So let's dig into that a little bit more. Now first, of note, this was the first feature-length

animated film in Britain, and every single voice was done by just one performer, Maurice Denham.

It was also originally rated X by the British film board because

they thought it wasn't appropriate for anyone younger than 18. And in a true measure of shifting

sensibilities, the film now has a U rating for universal, or all ages. But on to the very

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