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Podcast: Enchanted Ears: A Disney Adults Podcast
Episode: Disney Decade: The 1940s
Description: This week, on our series Disney Decades, we jump right into the most interesting and tumultuous decade yet: the 1940s. The Disney Company is struggling to stay on top with the high cost of animation and the declining foreign market due to World War II. After the smashing success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, films like Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi donât quite generate the money that it cost to fund them.
Walt feels attacked when his âfamilyâ tries to unionize, causing him to fire one of his most valued animators. Also, the U.S. government...