The Spirit of '43 (1943)
- Directed by
- Jack King
- Genre
- propaganda film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 6 min
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 31 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Donald Duck urges Americans to pay their income taxes to support World War II efforts. The cartoon contrasts wasteful spending with responsible tax paying and ends with a call to defeat the Axis.
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What happens
The Spirit of '43 is an American animated World War II propaganda film created by Walt Disney Studios and released in January 1943. The film stars Donald Duck and features writer/designer Carl Barks' prototype for the character Scrooge McDuck. It is a sequel to The New Spirit. The purpose of the film is to encourage patriotic Americans to file and pay their income taxes faithfully in order to help the war effort. The repeated theme in the film is "taxes to defeat the Axis". The film is in the public domain and therefore can be seen on many gray market videos as well as official Disney releases. The title is an allusion to the expression "Spirit of '76" (referring to the sentiment around the American Revolution in 1776). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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