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Où est Donald?
In all fairness the official costumed characters from that time period were pretty terrifying as well. Here’s a photo from a 1939 Disney company event:
And they only looked a little better for the opening of Disneyland in 1955:
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Even worse when associated with some Luftwaffe pilots in WWII. Flying ace Adolf Galland, for example, had a sort of tweaked Mickey on his fighter a/c.
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Talk about cultural appropriation…
There’s an interesting book about the popularity of Disney in Nazi Germany which I’ve read a couple of years ago. Probably not available in English.
https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/6274557/Description
The Film Museum Potsdam had an exhibition about it which I haven’t seen and only read about. I should get a copy of the catalogue, they still pop up used every now and then.
https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/8352912
Disney cartoons were regular fare in cinemas up until 1941.
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Why does everything from the 30’s look terrifying? Google 1930’s clowns or Halloween…horrific!
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