Walt Disney's Politics: Farthest Star to the Right?



Alternative title: Snowflake SJW DESTROYS Hundred Year Old Man

Shoutout to @Zack Paslay for serving as Chairman for this video! Check his channel out!

Other Video Essays:
Roger Rabbit and the Fall of Los Angeles Public Transit: https://youtu.be/TVNR24ZaLHk
Decolonizing Adventure: A Cinematic Road to El Dorado: https://youtu.be/uD4gWOpSvyQ
Encanto: One Hundred Minutes of Solitude: https://youtu.be/bEWVb2tY9SY
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SECTIONS
0:00 – Prologue
03:55 – Part 1: Who Was Walt Disney?
07:33 – Part 2: Walt’s Politics
14:41 – Part 3: Walt’s Beliefs
22:28 – Part 4: The Disney Animators Strike
28:20 – Part 5: Walt’s Work
38:39 – Part 6: The Artifice of American Liberalism
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SOURCES

Books
– Brode, Douglas. From Walt to Woodstock: How Walt Disney Created the Counter-Culture (2004)
– Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyperreality (1986)
– Eisenstein, Sergei. Eisenstein on Disney (1986)
– Gabler, Neal. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (2006)
– Thomas, Bob. Walt Disney: An American Original (1976)
– Williams, Pat. How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004)

Movies
– Cinderella (1950) dir. Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, and Clyde Geronimi, Walt Disney Studios
– Fantasia (1940) dir. James Algar, Walt Disney Studios
– Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Studios
– Modern Times (1936) dir. Charlie Chaplin, United Artists
– Mean Girls (2004) dir. Mark Waters, Paramount Pictures
– Olympia (1938) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
– Pinocchio (1940) dir. Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Studios
– The Reluctant Dragon (1941) dir. Alfred Werker and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Studios
– To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) dir. Robert Mulligan, Universal Studios
– Saving Mr. Banks (2013) dir. John Lee Hancock, Walt Disney Studios
– Song of the South (1947) dir. Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, Walt Disney Studios
– Victory Through Air Power (1943) dir. James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, and Jack Kinney, Walt Disney Studios

Shorts
– Der Fuehrer’s Face (1943) dir. Jack Kinney, Walt Disney Studios
– E.P.C.O.T. (1967) dir. Arthur J. Vitarelli, Walt Disney Studios
– The Three Little Pigs (1933) dir. Burt Gillett, Walt Disney Studios

TV Shows
– BoJack Horseman, “Angela” (2020) dir. James Bowman, Netflix
– Walt Disney’s Disneyland, “A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris” (1956), Walt Disney Studios
– Seinfeld, “The Race” (1994) dir. Andy Ackerman, NBC
– Veep, “Veep” (2019) dir. David Mandel, HBO

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14 thoughts on “Walt Disney's Politics: Farthest Star to the Right?”

  1. That last point about absolution hit hard; I wasn't expecting that. My friends and I have discussed Disney's impact on our early ideas about authority, so it was interesting to see that topic show up again here. Great video as always.

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  2. Oh no you can’t lecture other peoples children on sexuality without parental consent, how terrible. Honestly if that’s anti gay maybe that’s on the movement not the bill, it’s just a shame that something good has been twisted by corporate evils

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