Verwitterte Melodie (Weather-beaten Melody 1943)
Filed under: animation , 1940s, Animated film history and criticism, Children's film, Germany, hand-drawn, Hans Fischerkoesen , Propaganda, UFA Film GmbH, World War 2 ( WW2 )
Release Date: 04/06/1943
"Weather-beaten Melody follows the main character, a female bee as she wanders through a sunny meadow. Her character is provided autonomy and depth of character that is rare to find in animated media in the 1940’s. (Mortiz, 1..."
Disney’s Education for Death: The Making of a Nazi
Filed under: animation , 1940s, Technicolor, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, World War 2 ( WW2 )
Producer(s): Walt Disney
Release Date: 15/01/1943
"“Education for Death: The Making of a Nazi” (1943) is one of 32 animated short propaganda film that the United States government commissioned Disney to produce. Nearing bankruptcy after the financial failure of Fantasia (1940), Disney entered a c..."
Reason and Emotion
Filed under: animation , Walt Disney
Daffy the Commando
Filed under: animation , 1940s, Daffy Duck, Leon Schlesinger Studios, Looney Tunes, Propaganda, U.S.A., Warner Bros., World War 2 ( WW2 )
Producer(s): Leon Schlesinger
Release Date: 20/11/1943
"Daffy Duck parachutes onto a German base in WW2 and torments some Nazis. As he is shot by a cannon, he flies over (whilst holding two American flags, none the less) to a Nazi rally, and smacks Hitler with a hammer. Elements of propaganda abound, but ..."