Re: Adolf Hitler in animations

On Mon, Nov 3, 2003, 9:33pm (EST-3), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Quiet Desperation) wrote:
>In article
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>, Ted Nolan <tednolan>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>Were there any cartoons produced in Nazi
>>Germany?
>I recall a story about Disney wanting to release
>Snow White there in 1938-ish, but there was
>controversy in the Reich because the film was so
>advanced looking compared to German animation.
>Not sure if it was ever released, or what the box
>office was over there in the Vaterland.

I can give off some facts here!

Essentially, at this point in time, Disney had lost on exporting any of
their work to Nazi Germany since the Germans couldn't afford to buy them
at one point.  A campaign was enacted where the goverment tried to
discredit Mickey Mouse as a vermin!

A few top animators and artists in Germany got to see a pirated copy of
Snow White and studied some of the techniques in it.  It wouldn't be
untill after the separation of Germany when the film was seen in 1950.

>Gee, you think they'd dig a movie called "Snow
>White". ;-o But then again she did live with those
>impure, mutant dwarves. Tsk tsk.

Who knows.

>Years ago in college I saw a couple clips of
>animation done for the German propaganda
>machine. They also did typical commercial and
>even experiment stuff.

I have a whole documented film called "A History of German Animation
1920-1960" that covers in great detail much of Germany's forgotten past
in animation, including the words of Oskar and Hans Fischinger,
Pfemminger and his "Signature of Sound", Walther Ruttmann and the
animation studio that was enacted by Gobells during the war that
produced only one cartoon, "Amer Hansi" about a bird who escapes from
his cage and sees what kind of world was there outside his window.
Germany has had an interesting history in animation that included many
experimental works and some animators who either defected from Germany
during Nazi power or were doing things privately, or for the goverment,
as well as for sponcers with advertising films (some of Germany's early
animated films was in the advertising field through these type of
films).

>Then there was Leni Riefenstahl's animated
>sequel to the Triumph Of The Will called Triumph
>Of The Will II: Timmy To The Rescue. It was the
>first recorded used of computer animation rendered
>on a large bank of water driven difference engines.
>No, I made that last one up. :)

Hahahahaha!

>Hmmm. Water driven Nazi CGI. Someone call
>Neal Stephenson.
>This is a weird thread.

It is!  Not as weird as the info I managed to find about Germany
animation thanks to the documentary I brought up above!

>From the Master of Car-too-nal Knowledge...
Christopher M. Sobieniak

--"Fightin' the Frizzies since 1978"--