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William Cloud Hicklin · 10-11-2012, 07:51 AM

It could also have something to do with the fact that Walt Disney started his animation company to help the Germans with war expenses in WWII.

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It's amazing some of the stories which have circulated about Disney, based on God knows what varying agendas; I've seen a video where an Iranian professor calls him a Jew (he was an Irish Presbyterian), and that his Tom & Jerry cartoons (MGM/Hanna-Barbera* of course) were Zionist propaganda!

Disney began his animation company in 1925 and his iconic first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, premiered in 1928. At this time of course there was no war on, and Germany was governed by the weak but democratic Weimar government. When WWII started Disney did get involved- as a major producer of US propaganda cartoons supporting the war effort and assailing the Axis (including "Education for Death – The Making of a Nazi" and the tasteless but Oscar-winning "Right In Der Fuhrer's Face"), as well as a large number of training films for the military. In fact it could be argued that Government war work 1942-45 saved a company which had taken huge losses on Pinocchio and Fantasia, both box-office flops.

Here's a sampling: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/85033

*Jewish Zionists? No, Lebanese-Americans- in other words, Arabs!

10-11-2012, 07:51 AM	#12
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,302	It could also have something to do with the fact that Walt Disney started his animation company to help the Germans with war expenses in WWII. **???? It's amazing some of the stories which have circulated about Disney, based on God knows what varying agendas; I've seen a video where an Iranian professor calls him a Jew (he was an Irish Presbyterian), and that his Tom & Jerry cartoons (MGM/Hanna-Barbera of course) were Zionist propaganda! Disney began his animation company in 1925 and his iconic first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, premiered in 1928. At this time of course there was no war on, and Germany was governed by the weak but democratic Weimar government. When WWII started Disney did get involved- as a major producer of US propaganda cartoons supporting the war effort and assailing the Axis (including "Education for Death – The Making of a Nazi" and the tasteless but Oscar-winning "Right In Der Fuhrer's Face"), as well as a large number of training films for the military. In fact it could be argued that Government war work 1942-45 saved a company which had taken huge losses on Pinocchio and Fantasia, both box-office flops. Here's a sampling: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/85033 Jewish Zionists? No, Lebanese-Americans- in other words, Arabs! __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.* Last edited by William Cloud Hicklin; 10-11-2012 at 08:14 AM.