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Production costs and revenues of Walt Disney Studios' Animated Films (1937-1942) Leading into World War II, Walt Disney Studios was on the verge of bankruptcy. [1] While Walt Disney studios had entered the early 1940s with major profits from films like Snow White which had seen high revenues, Walt Disney had a tendency to use all profits from released films towards the production of new ones.
Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi was released when Disney was under government contract to produce 32 animated shorts from 1941 to 1945. In 1940, Walt Disney spent four times his budget on the feature film Fantasia (1940) which suffered from low box office turnout.
Der Fuehrer's Face (originally titled Donald Duck in Nutziland [3] or A Nightmare in Nutziland) is an American animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, created in 1942 and released on January 1, 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures.
The short film starts out with Wallace's song playing in the background while a comical band of Nazi "super-duper supermen" perform. Disney pokes fun of Hitler's Germany by depicting Donald eating breakfast by only spraying the scent of bacon and eggs onto his breath and dipping a single coffee bean into his cup of water.
Walt Disney Co. is celebrating its 100th anniversary on Oct. 16. Here's a timeline of key events in the Burbank company's history. ... For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Assisted in the sale of Nazi war bonds (Rueckwanderer Marks) to German Americans. Carl Zeiss AG [34] Zeiss logo: 1846 Oberkochen, Jena, Wetzlar, Mainz, Berlin: After initial conflicts with the Nazis, the company took part in the rearmament of the Wehrmacht in the 1930s and sponsored the so-called race research at the University of Jena (Optic ...
Year Events Notable film releases 1923 In Los Angeles, Walt Disney sells his short live-action cartoon reel titled "Alice's Wonderland", produced by Laugh-O-Gram. [1] Soon after, Walt and his brother Roy sign a contract to make 6 more such films, called Alice Comedies, which New York-based Margaret J. Winkler would distribute at $1,500 per reel.
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