"Creative personal accustomed to racking their brains for a new switch on some problem near and dear to Donald Duck's personality found themselves commissioned to explain to men at Navy bases all aspects of the functioning and maintenance of the gyroscope, and its relation to the overall functioning of and aerial torpedo"
Carl Nater, "Walt Disney Studio - A War Plant", Journal of the society of Motion Picture Engineers, March 1944. World War II affected the Disney Studio. As the war cut off foreign markets that supplied nearly 40% of the studio's income, exacerbating Disney's financial problems when Pinocchio and Fantasia, both released in 1940, failed to duplicate the box office success of snow white.
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J.B. Kaufman is one of the most prominent Walt Disney historians. In his book, “South of the Border with Disney”, he discuss Disney’s involvement with Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Good Neighbour policy between North America and South America.
Kaufman argues, however that the real motive behind Disney’s presence in south America was to sell the American lifestyle to the Latin American people. Kaufman argues that because German populations living in South America were large the fear of Nazi Influence brought them to act on the “Good Neighbors” tour.
"I was asked by the government to go to South America and do a cultural sort of thing, you know those Nazi days. I went down with the staff to see if I could make some films about the ABC countries down there, you know there is Argentine, Brazil and Chile. They first wanted me to go on a handshaking goodwill tour and I said; I don't go for it, I am not a good "handshaker" and everything, and they came back and said; so you go down and make some films about these countries, I said, well that's my business, I can do that. So I got the staff and set up a studio in Rio and Argentine". Walt Disney, South of the Border,
Carl Nater, "Walt Disney Studio - A War Plant", Journal of the society of Motion Picture Engineers, March 1944. World War II affected the Disney Studio. As the war cut off foreign markets that supplied nearly 40% of the studio's income, exacerbating Disney's financial problems when Pinocchio and Fantasia, both released in 1940, failed to duplicate the box office success of snow white.
Disney then started creating animation …show more content…
J.B. Kaufman is one of the most prominent Walt Disney historians. In his book, “South of the Border with Disney”, he discuss Disney’s involvement with Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Good Neighbour policy between North America and South America.
Kaufman argues, however that the real motive behind Disney’s presence in south America was to sell the American lifestyle to the Latin American people. Kaufman argues that because German populations living in South America were large the fear of Nazi Influence brought them to act on the “Good Neighbors” tour.
"I was asked by the government to go to South America and do a cultural sort of thing, you know those Nazi days. I went down with the staff to see if I could make some films about the ABC countries down there, you know there is Argentine, Brazil and Chile. They first wanted me to go on a handshaking goodwill tour and I said; I don't go for it, I am not a good "handshaker" and everything, and they came back and said; so you go down and make some films about these countries, I said, well that's my business, I can do that. So I got the staff and set up a studio in Rio and Argentine". Walt Disney, South of the Border,