A Disney Cartoon's Take on How Nazi Children Are Created...

The group working on cartoon propaganda has me looking through the Internet Archive's collection of WWII cartoons.  Check out the Private Sanfu collection and Donald Duck on Nazi Germany, but the one that really hit me was Disney's short on how Nazi's were created.  It's heavy handed propaganda to drum up support for WWII.  I didn't check the date, but I'd bet it was produced in the early half of the war, when we needed to explain why the Nazi's were evil.

Here's the link:

http://www.archive.org/details/EducationForDeathTheMakingOfTheNazi

Steve

Link to Internet Archive Cartoon Collection

For the group working on Globalization and Cartoons, here's the link to the Internet Archive's collection of animation and cartoons:

http://www.archive.org/details/animationandcartoons

Steve

PS  You'll also pull up lots of source material by doing a Google image search of "Globalization Editorial Cartoons."  The moral is that finding sources is often a matter of playing with multiple keywords in multiple indexes and databases.
PPS The group working on Hiroshima and perceptions of the bomb might want to check out the classic cartoon, "A Is for Atom" (1952).  Atomic energy and "the bomb" have often been conflated.  This cartoon's introduction shows how the bomb translates into one of the atom's "manifestations."   Here's the link:

http://www.archive.org/details/a_is_for_atom

They also might want to watch Disney's take, that is, Our Friend the Atom (1957).  Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRzl1wHc43I&feature=related

In my own research in Native American stereotyping, I often use materials meant for young audiences.  The working theory behind this use is that complicated messages are often boiled down and made clearer for younger audiences, and material meant to teach younger audiences is often more centered or hegemonic in terms of controversies within a culture.  Hence, you can get at what a ideology wants people to believe by looking at what it attempts to teach its kids and how these messages are framed. 

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