Disney stars and execs on the post-9/11 patriotism of Disney Channel's 'Express Yourself' videos ⤵️
to propaganda films. Between 1941 and 1945, the U.S. government commissioned Disney to produce 32 animated shorts persuading Americans to support the war effort. The studio, facing financial decline, needed the money.,” were a mix of educational propaganda with a touch of slapstick humor thrown in for entertainment. America was watching, and when the U.S. government approached Walt Disney, he took this wartime opportunity.
“I think over time, I came to understand just how impactful this was,” says Carlson Romano. “But at the moment, as a young person when it happens to you, not only are you traumatized in real time, but you get these overwhelming feelings. So for me, I had that overwhelming feeling of anger, and I didn't know who to direct it to.”
“I wouldn’t want my kids to watch something like the things I [originally] filmed, but I think they wanted to pull it out of me and be supportive. And they were. I think it was an appropriate response of the times for Disney to take that on. It was a big deal for them to take a stance in a political way.”
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