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Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers ( Volume: 42, Issue: 3, March 1944)
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Walt Disney Studio—A War Plant

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Journal Article
Article Type
research-article
Abstract
The fact that many peace-time industries and manufacturing plants have been converted practically 100 per cent into war plants manufacturing implements for war, is a well-known, not unusual fact. However, when a cartoon studio, which for many years has been engaged in creating whimsical entertainment for the screen, suddenly becomes a war plant, it is a somewhat more unusual fact. From a studio whose yearly production program included 2 or 3 features, plus 24 short subjects, Walt Disney Productions has at this time no feature in work, and is having difficulty producing a minimum number of short subjects. All of this, of course, is caused by the fact that between 90 and 95 per cent of the facilities of the organization are today devoted to producing training films for the Navy, the Army Signal Corps, the Army Air Forces, the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the Treasury Department, and other governmental agencies. This “change-over” in product at the Walt Disney Studio has brought a set of problems that is not frequently encountered in the average war plant. There was no radical “change-over” of heavy machinery, or the installation of new dies and presses. It was mental rather than physical adjustment. A studio and its personnel accustomed to working for 2 or 3 years on one picture were suddenly requisitioned to produce a film, twice feature length, in 4 to 6 months. The financial departments accustomed to budgeting pictures for ½ of a million to 1½ million dollars found themselves piecing out $12,000 and $15,000, and less, for production budgets. Creative personnel accustomed to racking their brains for a new switch on some problem near and dear to Donald Duck's personality found themselves commissioned to explain to men at Navy training bases all aspects of the functioning and maintenance of a gyroscope, and its relation to the over-all functioning of an aerial torpedo. To accomplish all of these ends, then, has been the task. That it has been accomplished is evidenced by the films now in use in all branches of the service. That the results have been worth while is indicated in several ways, but in no way more satisfying than when a man in uniform stops at the studio and states that he viewed such-and-such a picture in a combat zone and adds, “.…it sure helped.”
Publication Date
1944-03-01
DOI
10.5594/J08453
Link
https://doi.org/10.5594/J08453
Author(s)
Carl Nater
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