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Feb 29 / 5:45pm

Propaganda: "Food Will Win the War", 1942

Produced by Walt Disney with the help of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this animated short goes to great lengths to demonstrate the enormity of the U.S.'s food output, from enough loaves of bread to line the Suez Canal to a can of tomatoes taller and wider than the Matterhorn.

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Jan 27 / 3:00pm

Propaganda: "Der Fuehrer's Face," 1943

Originally titled "Donald Duck in Nutzi Land," this 8-minute Disney short received the 1943 Oscar for Best Animated Short. Cartoons of the time were regularly harnessed as propaganda pieces, but this one is particularly noteworthy in lacking the racist caricatures common amongst its contemporaneous brethren.

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