As I mentioned before, the early Disney movies were very much about showing off what animation was capable of. They were all very visual and groundbreaking. But with the exception of "Snow White" and "Dumbo" (which originally wasn’t planned as a movie at all), none of them were financial successes. That can partly be blamed on the influence of WWII, partly on the fact that the production costs for each of them was very high ("Dumbo" had the lowest budget by a considerable amount). When the USA entered the war, the government ordered Disney to make first and foremost propaganda shorts. To...
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