Disney’s forays into making World War II-era propaganda resulted in some interesting imagery, including beloved cartoons like Donald Duck stalking racist caricatures of Japanese people and Pacific Islanders. The 10-minute short “Education For Death: The Making Of The Nazi” might be the boldest of any of them, though. Newly relevant thanks to the sudden, Trump-influenced repackaging of racist, nationalist ideas as the “alt-right,” the cartoon explores the way education is used to create conscience-free soldiers. In the process, it dehumanizes Germans, using stark, film noir imagery to contrast the innocence of the German women and children with the absolute, literally cartoonish evil of the Nazis. It also features a red-faced Donald Duck-inspired version of Hitler wooing a decidedly size-ist caricature of the Russian people, because it was 1943 and pretty much something in here was bound to offend modern sensibilities.
May the propaganda of our immediate future feature the...
May the propaganda of our immediate future feature the...
- 1/16/2017
- by Clayton Purdom
- avclub.com
Rko's morale-building wartime thriller adds an element of sexual perversion to its story of Nazi crimes against children, thus creating one of the studio's all-time biggest hits. Bonita Granville is the victim Tim Holt her Nazi-youth heartthrob, and Otto Kruger provides the perverted sneers. Hitler's Children DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1943 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 82 min. / Street Date December 1, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H.B. Warner, Lloyd Corrigan, Erford Gage, Hans Conried, Gavin Muir, Nancy Gates, Egon Brecher, Peter van Eyck, Edward Van Sloan. Cinematography Russell Metty Film Editor Joseph Noriega Original Music Roy Webb Written by Emmet Lavery from the book Education for Death by Gregor Ziemer Produced by Edward A. Golden Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Perhaps the most popular anti-Nazi info-propaganda thriller of the war, Hitler's Children is a very well made shocker that...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Perhaps the most popular anti-Nazi info-propaganda thriller of the war, Hitler's Children is a very well made shocker that...
- 1/12/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Chances are that you stumbled upon a video recently where Disney paraded their animated films from 1 to 50 in celebration of the release of Tangled. You might have marveled at the pristine quality of Snow White or clutched at your chest in childlike wonderment at the Lion King’s roar. You might have even had a flood of childhood memories wash over you like the sun on a cold day. There’s something to be applauded in creating their 50th animated feature film, but Disney is celebrating a little bit late because there’s one movie that’s missing from that video roster. The missing movie is Victory Through Air Power, and it makes sense that it wasn’t included in the video. It’s not the typical fairy tale. It’s not even a narrative feature. It’s a documentary about flight and fighting meant to sway the minds of the powers that be in 1943. Plus, there...
- 11/30/2010
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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