The cartoon had donald duck in a nightmare working in munitions plant, eating stale bread, and dunking a coffee bean into water once to conserve the taste all the while giving continuous heil hitler salutes. Fuehrers definition of fuehrers by the free dictionary. In 1994, the film was voted number 22 of the 50 greatest cartoons of all time by members of the animation industry. In the cartoon, donald duck has a nightmare that he lives in germany slaving under the nazi regime. Donald duck working in an amunition factory nazideutschland. It was the only donald duck movie ever to receive an oscar. Through mass communications, such as film, poster, radio, and newspaper, propaganda was made to mock the opponent so public will take side on the propagandist. Donald has a nightmare that he is living in nazi germany, envisioning bayonet discipline, starvation, hard work on the munitions assembly line, and heiling hitler. The purpose of this video was to display antinazi propaganda for the american war effort in wwii and was supported by the united states government.
Shows the importance of propaganda even in cartoons for kids. Your cost will unfortunately remain the same though amazon is currently offering this suretobe collectors item for 30% off. Hal leonard digital sheet music at sheet music plus. Donald duck has a nightmare that he lives in germany slaving under the nazi regime. But theres really no way you cant talk about this, one of the most controversial of all american animated shorts made during the war years and hoo boy is that up against some stiff competition. The cartoon, which features donald duck in a nightmare setting working at a factory in nazi germany, was made in an effort to sell war bonds and is an example of american propaganda during. Added english subs because its often hard to understand the. Their tendency to only want to show the good parts of history along with their frequent conflicts with historians about their desire to do this are both chronicled in.
Donald duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting nazi. It focuses on donald duck having a nighmare about living and working in. The disney acid sequence when donald goes crazy from being overworked. On the front lines dvd from by clicking on the link to the right. The melody is fairly simple and repetitive, with a repeating verse interjected with a short interlude. I say interesting because its hard to call it a great cartoon, by todays standards. Donald is awoken by a silly march band singing the sarcastic title song penned by disney composer oliver wallace and sung with gusto by spike jones.
Then, a year later, came the spirit of 43, which features donald duck helping americans to understand why they need to pay their taxes. The fuehrers personal aircraft and transport unit, 19331945. Oscarwinning donald duck short about nazi germany taken. Propaganda was widely used by the allies and the axis alliance during world war 2 era to get public support by manipulating their emotions. This leads itself to being easily remembered, an attribute that is useful for any piece of music. The only other one that may reach the same status is mgms blitz wolf from the same year. The cover of the italian weekly magazine epoca showing the american. Spike jones and his city slickers released their own highly popular version of the song prior the the movies release. The cartoon, which features donald duck in a nightmare setting working at a factory in nazi germany, was made in an effort to sell war.