Defense Against Invasion

Title: Defense Against Invasion
Studio: Disney/US Government
Date: 12/XX/43
Credits: -
Series: -
Running time (of viewed version): 12:37
Commercial DVD Availability: OTFLd1

Synopsis: Hey kids, get your shots, kinda for the war effort. We need you fit to fight in Korea!



















Comments: Flasktastic title. Real life shadows. Multi-culti kids. Fat kid, black kid, white yet ethnic kid, little kid. The fat kid's name is Tubby. Odd drawing of anatomical man. Kind of a pre-cursor to Hemo the Magnificent. Disease looks like Chernabog. Or a spider version of the Axis octopus from Victory through Airpower. Also Osmosis Jones. Better than Victory... because the military is more cartoony. Blood makes this more abstract; but better than Fantasia because it's still actually a thing. With guns! Apparently Disney didn't know what a white blood cell was... The doctor is giving the British finger version of V. In the Hall of the Mountain King and the William Tell Overture. The (kidneys and liver?) look like mickey Mouse.

Not really sure if this is the last Disney for the year. The vagaries of propaganda short dating and all. Anyway, the last Disney and the last propaganda for the blog for the year (barring additional content after 2011).

124 Chicken Little

Title: Chicken Little
Studio: Disney
Date: 12/17/43
Credits:
Series: - (not actually a Silly Symphony)
Running time (of viewed version): 9:43 with Leonard, 8:49 without
Commercial DVD Availability: OTFL/Rarities

Synopsis: Disney shows the value of foxes over poultry.




















Comments: I thought the title had beehive hexagons, but I think it's actually chickenwire. The opening advises parents to watch before they show it to their kids. Fucking helicopter parents apparently may not want junior to know that idiots get eaten alive. Everyone in this chicken society sucks. Long thin snout. Pulsing head injury. Fox adjusts his bosom upwards. Apparently Cocky Locky is supposed to be good and trustworthy himself (although he sure comes across as big evil cigar chomper). Chicken Little (the idiot) sounds like Mickey Mouse. Fox wins. This cartoon hates politicians, dumb people, smart people, young people, wife people; I could almost swear this is a pro fox cartoon. Pulling up jitterbirds is about 4 years behind the times.

This dovetails with Rumors...

114 Home Defense

1943 Number: 114
Title: Home Defense
Studio: Disney
Date: 11/26/43
Credits:
Series: Donald Duck
Running time (of viewed version): 7:47
Commercial DVD Availability: OTFL/Dv2

Synopsis: Someone foolishly put Donald in an unsupervised war related job; he foreseeably screws it up.















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Comments: Nice title card, but the black letters under white outlines seem strange. Donald is no longer in the army, but is on the home front. Are Huey, Dewey and Louie's hats some sort of 19th century or earlier European gear? Panoply of period guns in the makeshift anti aircraft. Should civilians have been making decisions on whether to shoot at aircraft at home? I wonder why they don't show the swords being broken (unless it's a cut gag about Don's leg getting mangled). Is there an explanation for Donald's one fist straight one fist moving technique?

Four cartoons released this day; pretty busy. For the holidays?