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• Can recognise most quotes from almost any movie/show on first listen; Can recite the entire 12 days of Christmas by memory
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Tuesday, September 7, 2004
I'm gonna post a shameful plug today!
I bought the most amazing DVD set the other day. It was Disney, it was animated . . . and it was from the '40s.
Yeah, I bought the Walt Disney Treasures - On The Front Lines DVD set today. The gist of it is that during the war, Walt Disney got in on the effort and made many, many cartoons . . . I mean, apart from his normal ones. As it turns out, Mr. Disney also made propaganda shorts, education videos for everyone at home, training videos for the soldiers, and good old war-themed escapist comedy. Heck, he even made the feature length film "Victory Through Air Power" which can be viewed as another factor for America's development of long-range bombers! The historical value of these shorts and videos is absolutely unbelievable; Disney's demonifying the Germans and the Japanese is striking, his portrayal of how a child grows up to become a Nazi amazing and shocking, and his way of explaining why buying war bonds or paying income taxes win wars is incredible. Being the WW2 dork I already am, I couldn't get over this stuff . . . . . I mean, in one short Donald Duck wipes out a Japanese airfield! It's crazy!
Still, the most amazing part of all of the shorts, I found, was in the one entitled "Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Firing Line". In it, Minnie Mouse and Pluto learn via Mr. Voiceover how saving her cooking grease and fat and selling it to the military means more ammunition for the war effort. I don't know why this happened, but even now I think about this one part and I just get really emotional . . . . . essentially, Mr. Voiceover is just explaining how the grease and fat can be processed into materials to make bullets and stuff. He says that the annual amount of fat thrown out in the country could make a belt of machinegun bullets long enough to wrap around the world 6 times and stuff . . . wild, huh?
This is where the short hits me, though . . . Mr. Voiceover says another thing along the lines of "every pound of grease you save means another clip of ammunition in the bandoliers of the soldiers on the front line" or something. As he says that, Minnie and Pluto both look over towards the far wall: on it is a framed picture of Mickey Mouse, dressed in full infantry uniform, saluting with a big smile on his face. I don't know why, but every time I think about that scene, I seriously teeter on the verge of tears. For whatever reason, that idea of Mickey fighting at the front while Minnie and Pluto are at home just makes me well up inside . . . it's weird, but what can I say? I'm getting emotional just thinking about it now as I type this . . .
So yeah, it's 2 disks, and currently it comes in a pretty neat collector's tin. I wholeheartedly recommend this to everyone, because it's seriously an incredible little compilation of things that you'd never believe could happen in times of war . . . . .
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