Disney's Package Films

On the data. Five films, made between 1942 and 1949, and they exist because Disney was nearly broke. Three things happened at once. Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi had all lost money. The European market, which was close to half the studio's overseas income, was shut by the war. And in 1941 the animators went on strike for five weeks, which ended the studio as a family business and left a lasting bitterness. Then, after Pearl Harbor, the United States Army occupied the Burbank lot for eight months and used it to store equipment, and most of the staff were drafted. Disney spent the war making training films and propaganda for the government, which paid the bills but produced nothing it could sell. The package films are what it could afford instead of real features: short films, made one at a time, bundled into a programme and sold as a feature. There are six of them in total, and the sixth, Fun and Fancy Free, is on the Mickey Mouse page because half of it is Mickey and the Beanstalk. The first two are a special case. The American government's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which was running the Good Neighbor Policy to keep South America out of the Axis, paid for Walt Disney and a group of artists to tour Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru in 1941. Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros came out of that trip, and they are the only Disney features made partly as foreign policy. Two of these carry content warnings on Disney+ for racial caricature, which is the correct handling. There is also a Disney feature from this period that is not on this list at all: Song of the South, from 1946. It is live action with animated sections, its portrayal of the post-slavery American South is indefensible and was objected to on release by the NAACP, and Disney has never released it on home video in America. It is left off because it is not an animated feature and because the company has effectively withdrawn it, not because it does not exist.

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