The New Spirit (1942)
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2014
- In 1942 Walt Disney Studios created this short film for the US Treasury Department. Donald Duck learns that his tax dollars are going toward the war effort.
It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1943 for Best Documentary.
Donald's eager to grab a rifle and his stuff and go to war, but hesitated about paying his taxes. A true american patriot!
@Wallace Donald Trump had his dad use his connections to fake bone spurs so that he could avoid getting drafted in the army during the Vietnam War. He avoided both war and taxes.
@@TheJovian16 A true American hero.
@@TheJovian16
This is the same hypocrite who threatens war against Iran, North Korea, and other nations that he THINKS are a threat to us!
This is the same phony who once said he LOVES WAR! Well, if he loves it that much, why did he get his dad to use his influence to keep him, "the Donald," from being sent to Vietnam? If he REALLY loved war, he would have been all too eager to enlist in the army, so he could go to fight the "Enemy."
SICKENING!!!
Love also how the radio voice says "....yes...taxes..." as if they know "No one likes it but it has to be done."
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Doesn't that remind you of the old CCR song "Fortunate Son"?
"It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no President's son!
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I'm not the fortunate one!"
It's incredible that this short was created in a record-breaking two-three months and still maintains its high-quality animation. Comparatively, Disney animated shorts were produced with a higher budget and much more time.
They were also working on less overall
Three months? They did it in one! They got approval for the story in January 4 and by February 1 they had the prints delivered. According to Walt, they slept on the job, working 18 hours a day to do it!
@@devinwalleck4118 What do you mean? Disney animators were not underpaid
Adjusted for inflation, Donald Duck would have made $36,366.84 in 2015.
I'm fairly sure he makes more than that nowerdays if his contract lawyer had any sense. Get even a fraction of a percent on the merchandising with his likeness and he'd be very well off. Plus, toons don't die, so he should still getting residuals from every time they use one of his cartoons from the 1940's.
I wonder how it would have turned out during the COVID-19 crisis (2020)
@@talbotfisher4001 yep i agree. Donald was a huge star even back then, so his agent or whoever was helping him with finances must have been skimming almost all his income off him.
let's see...who's close to donald? who's financially educated, greedy, and always looking for a chance to make a profit or get a cut of a successful person or business?
aaaahhhh yes, I know. We *all* know exactly who of donald's relatives offered to "manage" donald's contracts for him, knowing he'd never be the wiser.
Good job with inflation skills. Been practicing?
Interesting information on the background of this cartoon:
Under the Revenue Act of 1942, approximately 15 million American citizens would become eligible to pay income tax for the first time. In anticipation of the law's passing, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. requested that Disney produce a film to cast the tax increase in a positive light and to explain why the government needed the money. A main part of the goal was to ensure that the taxes were paid on time, and to create as little resentment among the public as possible.
However, there was significant disagreement between Walt Disney and Morgenthau on who should star in the film. After Disney presented a storyboard of the film in Washington, Morgenthau said that he did not like Donald Duck, and preferred instead a new character to represent "Mr. Average Taxpayer." This, he thought, could better convey the seriousness of the issue. But Disney was adamant that Donald be used. The duck was at the time the studio's biggest star, and Disney felt that using him could make a painful task as fun as possible. Disney eventually got his way.
That's right! "Walt riposted that for the Disney studio to give the Treasury Department Donald Duck was like MGM giving them Clark Gable"
Scrooge McDuck could have single-handedly funded the entire war effort
he tried, but accidentally funded and invested in industries that were supplying both sides of the conflict and got in huge trouble with congress after the war was over lol
however they let him out of jail when his war hero nephew spoke on his behalf
@@hobomike6935
Maybe that’s why he retired, other than being depressed.
His lawyers probably handled it.
Unfortunately the rich do not pay taxes.
@@hobomike6935 That could make for an interesting version of the canon, ngl.. 😄
To hear Don Rosa tell it, though, during the war years Scrooge was still holed up in his mansion, having become a bitter recluse who had completely withdrawn from the world.
He could have, but he wouldn’t have; remember how stingy he is with poor launchpad mcquack!
The reason they used Beethoven's 5th Symphony is because the famous opening bars sound similar to "...- (dot, dot, dot, dash)," which is Morse code for the letter "V," the first letter in the word, "victory" ("V for Victory" was a common patriotic slogan at that time). This is why this particular piece of music was used frequently in war propaganda films in those days, like in Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series, for example.
This is super interesting! I know it's been three years since you posted this comment, but would you (or anyone) by any chance have sources for this? I tried looking it up and couldn't find much, but things like this have always interested me.
Found it very quickly on Wikipedia, with 2 sources listed there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#Second_World_War:_V_for_Victory_campaign
That’s crazy.
ohhhhh....that explains why in "spirit of 43" (another donald duck cartoon) when donald punches out a nazi and breaks a swastika door, the shards of it turn into 3 dots and a long plank of wood.
this reference totally went over my head.
In hindsight of what we now know in 2022 about Disney Corp, do you still believe Walt Disney was a good & decent man who couldn’t be affiliated with nazis? We’ve also learned Our government is corrupt to the core, & full of communists! Disney was their guy to fool America imo.
Here, Donald officially adopted his nephews and is SINGLE. This means that Donald was RAISING his nephews without help from Daisy (or Scrooge!) LONG before either version of Ducktales. 😔
@Saber Fox Yes, most of what you said about Della and the nephews is the original story.
But "Phooey" never really existed. It was just an inside joke for some comic authors because some of the artists sometimes included a fourth nephew but he was never actually a character. The rest of that probably a headcanon about Phooey and not what actually happened.
And no, that claim that their names were supposed to be Jet, Turbo and Rebel was only in Ducktales 2017. They were always called Huey, Dewey and Louie.
But no, in the original Ducktales, Donald DIDN'T "give up custody." He allowed Scrooge to watch them while he enlisted in the Navy for four years, but he got them back afterwards and this was when the 1990s series Quack Pack took place.
He’s a good guy
@@Masada1911 Yup. He is. He's amazing and it's a shame neither version of Ducktales nor eve other universes ever really gave this duck the recognition he deserved except the PKNA comics series.
@@ThePaganSun I never read those, are they good?
@@ThePaganSun "he never got the recognition he deserved"
he's literally mickey's main sidekick and one of the most popular disney characters of all time
I get tired of people saying that Walt Disney was a Nazi sympathizer. I highly doubt the government would have hired him to make propaganda cartoons like this in WWII if they seriously thought he supported the enemy. The only source we have for the "Disney as Nazi" claims is Art Babbitt, who had a big ax to grind with Walt over the working conditions in the studio and quit during the animators' strike.
Oh, and is that Cliff Edwards singing at the beginning?
It is indeed Cliff Edwards, aka Ukulele Ike, aka Jiminy Cricket.
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If he was proven to be a Nazi sympathizer, wouldn't he had been blacklisted or something?
@@nicoleknight9412 Probably, and that was the exact point I was trying to make. The federal government would never have allowed him to make anti-Nazi cartoons if they thought he was pro-Nazi. In fact, Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" was cut from Fantasia during production because Hitler was a fan of Wagner and used it to marshal his troops. That's not something you'd expect a Nazi sympathizer to do.
One celebrity of the time who actually was pro-Nazi was Charles Lindbergh, and he lost a lot of his popularity for it. If Walt had been a Nazi sympathizer (at least publicly) the same thing would have happened to him.
Only Disney can make paying taxes look fun
This is pure propaganda dude
@@walterwhite1 these people won't question it because it's a cartoon character they love. "There's no way they could do wrong!"
But yes, it is propaganda for income taxes which most Americans don't actually qualify for. Americans are giving away money voluntarily to people who don't use it for good when they actually don't have to pay income tax at all unless they work in a field that involves the FederalGovernment
3:34
It’s canon in Disney Duck canon that Donald can’t hold a job for very long.
However, his current job may give him that income.
He has more trouble holding down a job in the comics than in the cartoons where he's actually been pretty successful.
Libertarians now would be like "that Hitler guy isn't so bad I don't want to contribute"
From Hollywood to DC in 13 seconds by foot, pretty impressive feat.
Today, Donald Duck believes taxation is theft and wants to audit the fed.
A true American
Huh? How??
If only lol
Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards, the voice of Jiminy Cricket, sings the opening song.
There’s something I love about that opening song; especially at 0:42 something about the animation makes it line up well with the song.
A one page return. If they tried to make this video today it would be 5 hours long.
Announcer: Don't address it to your local collector of internal revenues...
Donald duck: Okay! so long
What I wouldn’t do to just pay $13 for bloody income taxes XD
13 dollars was worth 31 dollars today
This was the best 7:21 I spent today watching.
Love how they used Beethoven's fifth when destroying German planes ^^
There's actually a fairly strong symbolic reason for that. Those first notes of the symphony symbolize fate (death) knocking at the door. More importantly, however, those four notes are the same as the Morse code pattern of dot, dot, dot, dash (...-) which makes the letter V, as in V for victory. So, when you hear that part of the song, it is meant to symbolize allied victory.
Indeed, loads of films made during ww2 and portraying that era use that "da da da daaaam" part of b5 for those exact reasons.
...- = V.
V for victory.
churchil "v" sign.
It goes on and on.
V is for Playstation
JF WO Me 2 personally.
@@najroe
I once saw a photo of Winston Churchill giving the "V For Victory" sign by holding up his right index and middle fingers to form the letter "V." ✌️(I don't usually use emojis like this, but I decided to use this one to give readers and commentators an idea of what the "victory" sign looked like)
Ironically, a few decades later, this same gesture would be used by opponents of the Vietnam War as the "peace sign."
6:07 I like when he says battle wagons
How the heck does Donald only have to pay $13 in federal income tax?? Jeez, I wanna see that 1942 tax form!!
13%
Because workers were not paying their taxes on time during WW2 the government started taking it out of their wages, the W2 was born.
Before WW2 no private sector earners paid any FEDERAL INCOME taxes. The "victory tax" was a VOLUNTARY withholding from private sector payments, hence the propaganda needed to defraud non-taxpayers into volunteering to be taxpayers. This tax is an excise since 1862, for federal earners only. If you don't comprehend, then study the law at losthorizons.com
strawman finally, somebody that understands!
Excellent Strawman!
NOT SO IT USED TO BE PAID QUARTY YOU PAID YOUR 1941 TAXES IN 1942 THE PROBLEM WAS YOU MADE $5000 IN 1941 IN 1942 YOU ARE EARNING $21 A MONTH AS A SOLDIER
Taxes to beat the Axis!
Even in 2016, this still stirs the blood. And I'm generally anti-war.
This makes me wanna pay taxes.
Taxation is theft!
Taxation is important, but when a corrupt government takes too much money and use it irresponsibly, it can and should be called theft.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
It most certainly is THEFT.
You are a good commie.
@@christineadams1284 Taxes are required for upkeeping the nation, the governance, police force, military, public infrastructure and social services etc. Not wanting to pay any taxes is essentially saying that you want a chaotic paleolithic hellscape with none of the features of a civilised society.
Also communism is a distinctive socio-economic state of being where the state has been abolished, social classes have stopped existing and the means of production have developed to a level where there's near infinite surplus of goods for everyone's consumption. Hence I'd argue that paying taxes is the most non-commie activity you could partake in
@@christineadams1284 Do you drive on roads? Use airports? Expect the services of firefighters and police forces to help you? That's what your taxes pay for.
I remember this on a VHS, but barely remembered anything about it. Heck, I don't even remember the Donald Duck segment, and only the part starting from about 4:30. I didn't even understand anything about it except that "Swastikas=bad guys".
Back then, that's all a kid (or even an adult) needs to understand, really.
Need to know basis. What
You should want to know is everything else you're not being told.
I remember there was another cartoon on the VHS that was a story about a light blue car. Do you know what the VHS was called?
@@mihnic0504: I had the same VHS. The cartoon you're thinking of is "Susie, the Little Blue Coupe" (1952).
4:48 When you ask what Utahns plan to spend their tax returns on.
Back when they had to beg you for them, instead of just take them.
3:25 It's lists his nephews as adopted. Is this disney cannon?
Nathan Berrysouth Huey, Dewey and Louie are his sister's children. when their parents died, he adopted them.
Karyl Miller
Actually, it's not mentioned what had happened to Della and the father. Perhaps the rebooted Ducktales will look more into this.
@Chris Smalls
Della's on the WHAT? What was that symbol and what did it mean?
Which timeline?
@@michaelpalmieri7335 THE FUCKING MOON.....YOU SON OF A $&*_/!/&
when the treasury department took the Idea to Walt Disney they wanted a character john q public DISNEYS COMMENT WAS ME GIVING YOU DONALD DUCK IS M G M GIVING YOU CLARK GABLE
this is back when we hadda pay taxes 4X a year!
ESTIMATED "PAY AS YOU GO WITHOLDING WAS NOT UNTILL 1943"
I can't help but think how stallingrad go through at that time
This is an informative cartoon.
I love Watch Donald Duck Sailor Ashley!🔵💛
4:48 asking an American in 2021 what they spend there paychecks on.
2:41 That must be very painstaking to calculate and pay taxes back then.
I bet in 1940 it was very hard and painsrocking back then.
NOT MANY PEOPLE DID
Why does this radio have constantly opened mouth?
Donald Duck Paying Taxes vs Yoshi Comits Tax Fraud.
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6:44 You'd think they'd re-air this part after 9/11 but NOOOOOOOO
anonymous anonymous The USA is a very different country today than it was back in 1941
Sean Furlong Yeah but the national unity is something that should still be here after devastating attacks like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
anonymous anonymous I agree but sadly patriotism is declining in the USA and all other Western nations. I live in the UK and I can't see my generation rallying together like they did during World War II.
Sean Furlong I guess it's because both the US and UK haven't done formal declarations of war since then because no war that both countries have fought in since then has been a war of survival.
anonymous anonymous There is that but I have also witnessed the anti patriotism sentiment from people my age many many times.
This is when DIsney was good.
Tell someone that there is a short where Donald Duck does his income tax and write down their response.
damn the federal withholding
I want that song that was played in the beginning in the cartoon please.
I Ought to watch this on every remembrance day (Lest we forget War Veterans who Paid taxes for our war)
The singer sounds like the guy who did the voice of Jiminy Cricket.
It was. His name was Cliff Edwards.
Happy 80th The New Spirit
Actor *?*
Well the 4th wall just broke
The opening song sound like it was sung by jiminy cricket
That's because it was done by Jiminy Cricket's voice actor, Cliff Edwards.
Wow ½% tax ! I am in!
Doing taxes back then must've been easier.
i see ! ! ! ! !
what about animated cartoon painting background?
Oh what people do not comprehend these days. Taxes not only pay for the corrupt politicians, but also the roads and bridges.
Highway use and fuel taxes are supposed to pay for roads... but they use that money to keep SSI afloat
America(during those times back then):”we need your income taxes to help us win this war”
(Today)(example:EA games):”I’m going to do what’s called a pro gamer move”
4:58 top 10 saddest anime deaths
Japan also made anime so this is more accurate lol
Adjusted from 1941 to 2023 Donald made about $51,332.65 in income.
Planet Money sent me here. Anyone else?
I bet the singer at the beginning was Jiminy Cricket.
0:57 thats right
2020
Of course he paid less than 1%. Ahh, limited government!
Making "fun" out of censorship.
OK Donald, you made $2501.00 and are paying $13 in taxes.
You forgot something, YOUR FICA TAX.
That $13 won't get it. Your FICA tax is 15.3% of the $2501, which equals $382.65. That's the additional amount you owe.
The tax is on EVERY PENNY of the $2501.
Standard deduction, NOPE.
Personal exemption, NOPE.
Below poverty level exemption, NOPE,
Exemption for dependents, NOPE.
Earned income credit? Sorry, you are over 65 years old. You don't get that either.
So add the $382.65 to the $13 and PAY UP.
+ronpaulvoter Uh, this was in 1942, remember? Tax laws were different then.
I wouldn't worry too much about 'ol ronpaulvoter. He's probably a worthless boomer who takes for granted everything his parents & grandparents gave him and now, having hoarded it all to himself, doesn't want to give anything back for his children or grandchildren.
1. The government was already withholding FICA from people's paychecks. This was about the re-introduction of Income Tax to help pay for the war effort.
2. Adjusting for inflation, Donald actually made a decent living as an actor. $2500 is the equivalent to about $33k today.
3. He did get an exemption for dependents.
4. Earned Income Credit didn't exist yet.
@@tiffanycarter5432:
$33,000? I'm curious where that calculation came from, since just a moment ago I ran it through an online inflation calculator and it came up with about $43,000. I have no idea which is correct.
Minchia la Fica Tax, siete davvero avanti voi americani
JIMMINY CRIKET IS SINGING
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(ME):YAHHHOOO!!😄
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Subtitularlo en español
Well, now that the Nazis have been taken care of, can some of these taxes go to fixing the potholes that have pockmarked the highways of Ohio and Kentucky? Sorry, I might be a little biased😁
Unfortunately, the GQP wants your taxes to fund the "Space Force". 🤑
@@luisreyes1963 Lol liberal gringos are so out of touch with reality
2:24 It should have been Taxes to beat the Isis!
$13!! I'm on it!
GUNS!!!!!!
$13 to build a gun? what a load of garbage. nobody can build a gun for $13....NOBODY.
*europe builds the STEN gun and successfully uses it against the enemy*
....well, pass me a fork, I gotta eat my words. again.
O novo espírito
I know this is like 80 year old at this point.......but does this mean Donald committed mass tax-fraud until this came out? XD
No, it’s just that it’s been a running gag that paying taxes are a pain in the neck.
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pay your taxes kids
A yearly income under 3,000 dollars and income tax under $20? Yeah this was definitely written in the '40s!
Yes, the message grates. But, on point. Bottom line: freedom ain't free.
This is amazing and so inspirational.
3:06 This kind of pen existed back then?
Yeah, that’s a reservoir, or fountain pen. It was actually a common way for people to write outside of using a typewriter or a dip pen until the Space Race gave us ballpoint pens.
Thank God we don’t have to use fountain pens anymore. They’re obnoxious to store, make an unpleasant sound and feeling when drawn across paper, regularly and easily _tear_ through paper, and can easily cause a huge, inky mess that is impossible to remove and stains everything it touches.
The sharp tips also easily sliced or poked through your skin. Outside of enthusiasts or rich people that like to use them to feel “classy,” They won’t be missed.
best propaganda material I ever seen!
Taxes for private planes for congress!
Hey, nobody likes to pay taxes but I do it anyway out of civic duty
Jamie Kennedy and Jay Dyer sent me
0:54-3:25
1942
Now i now what to not do while trying to commit tax fraud
The Inflation Calculator tells me that earnings of $2,501 in 1941 would be about $51,000 in 2023. Not bad, but hardly the big bucks of a major Hollywood star. Donald was getting a raw deal. 😄
I think it seems fair, especially since the average salary was under $1,500 by the start of WWII, and the minimum wage for an actor under the Screen Actors Guild was around $2,130 at the time (and considering that Donald is an animated character, he might have been subjected to lower pay than other actors like John Wayne).
4:30
You must volunteer to pay your taxes. Why?
"Fear is the key element for the IRS in achieving its mission. Without fear, the IRS would
have a difficult time maintaining our so-called system of voluntary compliance ...".
"Given the opportunity, the IRS will take the easy way out and grab whatever it can... the
IRS does not really care about you and what your future....... may be".
-Santo Presti, former IRS Criminal Investigation Agent and author of "IRS In Action"
"In a recent conversation with an official at the Internal Revenue Service, I was amazed
when he told me that 'If the taxpayers of this country ever discover that the IRS operates
on 90% bluff the entire system will collapse' ".
- Henry Bellmon, Senator (1969)
War isn't like what it used to be.
war, war never changes
oh wait it *did* change. never mind
Taxes for democracy!
6:51
I think you got the wrong anthem to suit the imagery there, Disney.
***** It's God Save the Queen, or sounds an awful lot like it.
***** They sound exactly the same. Oh, 'Murica, when will you learn to stop stealing from us Brits?
He says using American technology . . .
@@herbivorethecarnivore8447
The melody of "God Save The Queen (or King)" was later adopted into "My Country, Tis Of Thee" (originally called "America").
1:13
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why does the radio have two tuning eyes
Maybe the animators wanted to make the radio look human, so audiences could identify with the human voice coming from it. After all, it was that voice that was telling Donald Duck (and movie audiences in general) how important it was to pay taxes for the war effort. And the radio does look kind of human; in addition to the "tuning eyes," as you call them, the knob in the middle of its "face" almost resembles a nose, and the big speaker grill could be seen as a big mouth (which is appropriate, since it's a SPEAKER). 😁😁😁
This was a common practice in the Disney cartoons, where ordinary objects were made to look like people, or even animals, and certain elements made the idea that they're alive seem plausible. In "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs," for example, there's a particularly scary scene where Snow White is running through the "enchanted" forest looking for a place to hide, because she's just found out that her jealous stepmother, the Queen, wants to have her killed, and she's so scared out of her wits, that she imagines that the woods are full of monsters! Terrible faces with huge, burning eyes appear in the trunks of trees, their branches turning into claws that seem to be trying to grab and crush Snow White to death; logs floating in a river look like alligators opening their large mouths, as if to bite into Snow White's flesh and devour her.
Of course, they're not really monsters, but Snow White thinks they are, because the way they look in her frightened eyes makes them seem that way.
Walt Disney himself called this idea the "plausible impossible," which is basically the impossible MADE possible. In fact, an entire episode of Mr. Disney's weekly TV show, "The Wonderful World Of Disney," was devoted to the plausible impossible concept. Even a book entitled "The Art Of Animation," written by members of the Disney animation staff, contained a whole chapter called "The Plausible Impossible."
Such an idea, Mr. Disney said, could even be traced back to ancient times, to the legend of the Centaur, a creature from Greek mythology that was said to be half man and half horse (Centaurs appeared in a segment from the 1940 Disney classic, "Fantasia," along with their female counterparts, the Centaurettes). The Centaur myth allegedly began in the days when it was common to use horses to pull wagons and chariots, but it was almost unheard of for someone to actually ride on the back of a horse. It is believed to have started when somebody saw a man riding on horseback in "a fleeting moment," and it was such a shock to him, that it seemed like what he saw was half man and half horse, which is the way he later described it to others. Unfortunately, no such creature existed, but the way the witness saw the man on horseback in such a quick moment made the idea of a man/horse hybrid sound plausible, and was thus, a plausible impossible!
5:43-5;47 -INCOMING!!🤯
Wait, how is the American factory any different from the German one in Der Fuhrer's Face?!
The Americans didn’t use slave labor in their factories. Look up the v2 program, more people died making them than the missile ever killed when fired.
Do you see any framed photos of FDR whizzing by on the assembly line that the workers all have to salute every single time? 😄
Doesn't say too much for the outsourced call centers.
6:31 A weapon to surpass metal gear?
3:56 So if you are single and have dependants, you have to write two checks?
No, you had a certain amount that was considered tax-exempt if you had dependents.
Simply put, if Donald had no dependents, he would’ve had to pay out of the $2,500-$2,525 bracket. But since Huey, Dewey, and Louie are considered his dependents, he subtracted the tax-exempt income that is allowed for the number of dependents he had, and only had to pay out of the rest of his taxable income (the $1,700-$1725 bracket).