Animated portions of the films were produced by the Walt Disney studios ... Axis Sally, a failed American actress who passed Nazi propaganda over the radio every night on her “Home Sweet ...

One of the purest expressions of Walt Disney’s genuine patriotism during the war years was his decision to establish a unit devoted to producing customized military unit insignia free of charge ...

But on 7 December, Japanese aircraft attacked Pearl Harbour, abruptly bringing America into World War Two – and ousting Walt ... Disney never referred to such films as ‘propaganda’ but ...

In 1933, a Navy Reserve Squadron in New York asked Walt ... Disney Company. (U.S. Air Force photo) Some of those symbols have become iconic, such as the flying tiger representative of the First ...

He stressed the importance of keeping the American labor unions free from communist activists. Helped by the success of Cinderella (1950), Walt Disney’s financial fortunes improved, and the ...

As Neal Gabler wrote in his book, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, “Mickey Mouse had become the graphic representation of indomitable happiness even in the face of national ...