World War 1 Film Analysis

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Wall the americans were fighting I was making a film about what was happening in the war. Some of the films I put donald duck in the film as taxes so the kids know how they supports the war effort. I made about 90,000 feet of film to teach sailors about their duties. During the war, over 90 percent of I devoted to the making of training and propaganda films. Perhaps the importance of my studios is shown by the fact the U.S. army sent troops to protect my studios. During WW1, while serving as a Red Cross ambulance driver, I painted his ambulance and other vehicles with drawings and cartoon figures. In 1942, the navy asked my studios to design a sign appropriate for its new fleet of navy torpedo boats known as mosquito bouts. In response, my

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