The Ugly Truth About Walt Disney
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- How could the creator of the "Happiest Place on Earth" have such a conflicted and questionable past? Check out the ugly truth about Walt Disney to discover a darker side to the Mickey Mouse creator!
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I was under the impression the dwarves on snow white were the mystical humanoid creatures that are able to prospect and mine already polished diamonds in a raw diamond mine, not humans suffering from dwarfism.
yeah but that won't stop those who look for ism's in everything
Yep.
Who cares
@@rtl1003 Peter dinklige
Nice!
Growing up, I never made the connection that the dwarves in snow white was a representation of people with dwarfism. I just assumed it was an implementation of a fictional race of people, like the dwarves from world of warcraft, or other fantasy race dwarves. Like garden gnomes, elves, and fairy's.
Derick Mitchell as the little people said Peter Dinkleage does not speak for all of them look at the munckins in Wizard of Oz those actors did not get offended!
Dwarfs and other creatures who ended up in fairytales, often started out in serious reports from people of all cultures and races seeing them. Just like giants, mermaids and other things. Its just that movies shaped our image of these things in such a goofy way, that we think about what we saw on screen and go naaaaah, thats to weird and childish. Its not total fantasy always...if you dig into this, you find many interesting things that werent made up for kids at all. And its not a coinscedence that you can find depictions and descriptions of these things in so many differetn cultures, that didnt even mingle with each other at the time, and it was written down in chronicles too.
@@aprilgosa5779 You also have to take into consideration that the Wizard of Oz was also released in the 30s. A lot has changed since then.
The term dwarfism was coined in the 1870's , Schneewittchen ( Snow White ) was first published in 1812 ... The folkloric creatures came first
@@aprilgosa5779 They got rich.
Peter Dinklage actually got a quite a bit blow back from the small people community for those comments. They equated it, to him trying to pull the ladder up after he got his. One of my favorite comments was âPeter Dinklage is not king of the dwarves and does not speak for us.â
He just didn't want any competition in Hollywood. He wanted to be the go to for those roles
He is behaving like a snob.
Wouldn't a Snow White remake only create jobs for more dwarf actors though? Maybe just seven jobs, but still...
Did Mr Dinkelage even watch Snow White the dwarves were the heros they killed the Evil Queen/ Witch! They knocked her off the cliff! LOL
I guess he didnât know how to play the Game of Thrones in real life
From what I've heard, the dwarfism community heard Peter Dinklage's thoughts on Snow White and told him to shut up. There were a lot of articles talking about the outrage over how he'd cost them what could have been career-making roles.
I forgot what Dinklage was so mad about, was it about the dwarves controversy?
@@Abebabe413 Except it's not even controversial if you ask the majority of the little people community, it was Dinklage slamming the door behind him.
@@NotMyRealName6 ah yes
@@NotMyRealName6 A lot of people do think he just didn't want any other little people getting famous and threatening Dinklage's spot as Hollywood's go to actor for a role that needs a little person.
yeah dinklage should have been the bigger man about all this
Fantasia and Snow White were some childhood favorites also Bambi and Pinocchio. I actually feel fortunate to have been able to have grown up with those movies. It's too bad the companies getting run into the ground by corruption and greed.
Exactly!
Iâm grandmother would disagree but I do agree I did not watch those movies when they came out but I do like them and it is a shame that itâs going down to the ground
In 1971, at the end of a working day I went to the Disney offices in The Strand, London, to meet an employee to go to the theatre that evening. Peter went to use the restroom before we left and he was to lock up on the way out. As I waited, I answered an "out of working hours" telephone call. It was an executive of Disney in California, calling with the news that Roy Disney had died. The US executive had presumed that I too was an employee but I was not, I was a record company exec. For me, as for many of my age, the very last Disney film was "Fantasia" I love it to bits!
That would have been December 20th,1971.
Thankyou! How I wish that I hadn't given up writing a daily diary during the heady years: the memory still serves well but I guess that much detail was lost in the next joint! That was life and so busy with the excitement of the day to give the time to the page a day books that I keep and have done religiously for the past four decades.@@jmen4ever257
He was a business man, he was playing both sides, he would then always be on the winning side.
This reminds me of Tommy Shelby in the final season of peaky blinders
A practice that not only Disney Inc does. But now itâs to the detriment of every company but China.
Walt was a true neutral.
The older I got, the more I realized Walt Disney was a person.
He was genuine yes in his vision of a better world, but he had his dark sides to like everyone else. It's in a lot of these cartoons, especially in those early years, that are often banned or have changes implemented. But what redeems him is his integrity. He kept his private thoughts private and showed respect even towards people he privately did not like being around for whatever his personal reason is. He wasn't saintly, but he did his darnest to be the better person because he wasn't blind to suffering.
Walt Disney was not perfect, but he was a person.
well said. No, he wasn't perfect. Yes, he created a big part of our collective childhood. Accept it.
Yes a popular artist/
Animation Legend,
Can obviously become Egoistic;
I believe I went
To school w/Disney
Grand-son it's too
Long of a story, (or
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Way to my point that
Disney relative was
Civil towards myself
And he gathered "popularity " well
Also good looking
Family (curly blond
And tall and thin well
Dressed) enough said.
I never took for granted Walt Disney as a symbol of patriotism; even without figuring out what lesser qualities he had, I knew he was still a person with a big set of expectations placed on him and inevitably was going to face some moral struggles in his time, but the issues were never the status quo for Walt; at his core he desired to impress audiences with a wonderful new technology and entertainment experience and a good team behind it, and he certainly achieved that. Regards, Samuel Farris.
@@samuelfarris1949 Uh, why?
Here is how I look at him while he wasnât perfect he did what he did out of a genuine passion he even said himself that he didnât make cartoons and movies for money but for enjoyment which is why I personally believe he would be ASHAMED at what his company has become these days.
It should be stated that the dwarves in Snow White did not live in a cave but in a house, and were very wealthy because they had mined all of those gemstones. It was also the dwarves that ended the witch. They were never portrayed in a negative light.
4:17
I have no doubt that this habit caused not only vocal cord issues but problems with his esophagus in general. I find it odd that in all of his years, no one told him he was consuming his cigarettes wrong. Not a single person mentioned cigarettes are meant to be smoked, not chugged. That many years spent chugging dry, shredded tobacco along with the paper and filter. Have you ever tried to eat multiple crackers without taking a drink? Same principle just with a harmful substance. I'm surprised he could speak at all.
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@Jefferson Gonzalez I know it's not what was meant, but with all of the wonderful words that would accurately describe his chain smoking(
@Jefferson Gonzalez he knows it means chainsmoking
@@ytsn_THE_OG Proof?
@@SUPERNOVA0360 my reply to the statement that was posted 17 hours before you commented.
walt disney really didnt expect that much from a mouse drawing, impressed
Ub Iwerks did an Amazing job with Mickey Mouse
Meryl Streep bad mouth's Walt but it didn't stop her from being in Into the Woods, which was produced by his company.
Meryl Streep also supports Roman Polanski and actual child predator.
A hypocritical Hollywood star? Color me shocked. đ
From what I hear Disney ironically became a Jewish company at one point so the joke would be on Walt Disney himself.
The biggest problem with modern critics is that they fail to take into context the times a person lived in. It's so easy to be so morally superior when you weren't raised or grew up during a said era. My personal take is that Walt was an idealist and saw some of the good of some philosophies but personally didn't adapt what he thought was bad in them. Which is why Jews, black people etc. Who knew him defended him. He was searching for an ideal, an ideal he put into words when he was describing his future world. Also, dwarves are a mythological race, in real life terms the only practical way to represent them is to cast short people. That also gives rare job opportunities for them who aren't Peter Dinklage. Something that was voiced by these actors. It's easy to virtue signal when you're already in a position of privilege, another thing when you don't live in that bubble and have to deal with everyday reality.
(Idealisation) is always the problem, and that can be deduced without having to apply modern morality to past events with hindsight at our sides to attack his choices in who he idealised.
@@LlibertarianGalt In what way, shape or form is idealism always the problem? Idealism is the first step towards an aspirational goal. What facts or points contribute to your deduction that makes being an idealist the perennial problem?
@@JLP627 I meant idealisation sorry, my bad.
@@LlibertarianGalt Ah, makes sense now LoL
there's no such thing as black people. we are indigenous, indians and moors. the reds are asian fake natives. the truth can never be hidden for long.
"He became conservative... that's ok, lots of things need conserving." đ yep, he loved his antique clocks collection.
3:46 Shame Oswald hasn't been depicted in more Disney products as part of Mickey's group of friends after recovering the rights of the characters in order to use him in Epic Mickey. It's like they completely forgot about him after the second game flopped
Fun fact: Sport announcer Al Michaels was traded for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in a sport TV deal
I think that was because Oswald got taken from Disney by the company he worked with at the time. Something involving copyrights I believe. That used set him so much that he made sure a situation like this would never happen again. I also believe itâs this whole mess that inspired him to create Mickey. As a sort of replacement for Oswald. But feel free to look this up yourself.
@@OptimusMaximusNero Uh, where?
@@johnprudent3216 pretty much what happened. Oswald and the majority of Disney animation studio at the time was taken from him by Charles Mintz and Universal. Itâs what set off Disney to protect his characters, and be very wary of all the big studios.
He was in the mickey mouse shorts and epic mickey
I've studied this man for the last 45 years and if he participated in anything questionable I feel he probably really thought he wasn't doing anything wrong. Maybe he was naive. He certainly made so many quality films while he was alive and they were very family friendly. He had some christian values and his daughter Diane said he very much believed in God. When he opened disneyland he had a protestant, catholic and Jewish minister at the opening. So think what you want, only he and God truly know.
Walt Disney wasnât a villain, but he sure was flawed in ways, but you have to remember, there were different standards in his time
Wasn't a villain? You do know he was a 33 degree freemason, right? And you know what that entails? Maybe do some research...not the guy you think he was!
@@ShannaM1 â @ShannaM420
1. No, Walt Disney was not a 33 degree Freemason, as far as I can tell. There is no official record of him joining a Masonic Lodge or receiving any Masonic degrees The claim that he was a 33 degree Freemason seems to be based on a misunderstanding of his involvement with DeMolay International, a Masonic-sponsored youth organization that he joined when he was 19
2. These are some common reasons for conspiracy theorists to label him as such:
- His creation of Club 33 at Disneyland, an exclusive private club for VIPs, which some people think is a reference to the 33rd degree of Freemasonry. However, there is no evidence to support this theory, and it is more likely that the name Club 33 comes from the address of the club at 33 Royal Street in New Orleans Square, or from the number of corporate sponsors of Disneyland at the time of the clubâs construction23.
- His use of Masonic symbols in some of his films, such as the square, compass, and all-seeing eye in early drafts of Fantasia. However, these symbols are not exclusive to Freemasonry and can have different meanings in different contexts. There is no proof that Walt Disney intended to convey any Masonic messages through his work24.
These pieces of evidence are not enough to prove that Walt Disney was a 33 degree Freemason, as they are based on assumptions, speculations, or coincidences. They can be disproved by looking at the official records of Freemasonry and DeMolay International, as well as the historical and artistic sources of Walt Disneyâs creations.
There's some research for you sir.
If you do have any other evidence of Walt Disney being a Freemason, I would love to hear it so I can look into it myself. I would like to have a logical discussion with you about this rather than you just insinuating I have not done any research, when in fact I have very much done so, when you just throw claims that I assume you heard on a CZcams video once and believed it completely without looking into it yourself at all. You didn't give any evidence for your claim an any capacity, how can you say I don't do research when you throw claims with no backing. I am actually a long time business researcher and love to look into the lives of many successful entrepreneurs such as Ray Kroc, Rockefeller, Steve Jobs, and, yes, Walt Disney. I have watched numerous documentaries and read many books about the man and am actually quite knowledgeable about him and his life, please don't just assume you know more about someone just because you watched a Top 10 video once.
Sources:
Was Walt Disney a Freemason? | Scottish Rite, NMJ
Was Walt Disney a Freemason? - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Was Walt Disney A Freemason? Exploring The Rumors
Peek Inside Walt Disneyâs Secretive Club 33 - Ripleyâs Believe It or Not!
Debunking Myths About Walt Disney - MousePlanet
Yep
@@ShannaM1 lol what person of power then and now isnât a mason?!
@@CarolCityCane305 that's not the point. I'm trying to educate this person that Walt wasn't the sweet innocent man we were raised to believe he was.
Missed were two life-altering events--Walt Disney was in the Chicago post office as a substitute mail carrier when someone bombed the building, and Walt caught the Spanish Flu just after joining the Red Cross and recovered at home (hospitals were places that people went to die).
Later, Walt Disney had a nervous breakdown brought on by overwork. Then his mother died--Walt had gifted his parents with a new home and even sent a studio repairman to fix a gas leak, but his mother died as a result of gas and his father almost died as well. Walt experienced tragedy and nearly died multiple times before finally expiring on 15 December 1966.
BUT I WANNA KNOW HOW WALT DISNEY DIED FOR REEEAAAALLđĄ
@@niasharamos1718 died of Lung Cancer
@@tamyaevans1631 They said he died from being frozen but why did he get frozen?!
@@niasharamos1718 He didnât die because he got frozen, he died from lung cancer. The frozen thing is just a myth, it hasnât been proven if itâs real or not
It's Infographics, they always leave out details here and there. Either it's to save time or to make the story sound more interesting.
It's sad what Disney Company has become in modern times
Why what's wrong?
@@UN1VERS3S Have you seen the live action remakes
Yes itâs very sad
It was worse back in the day have you watch the video lol
@@UN1VERS3S If you had to edit a 3 word reply, I highly doubt you'd understand the point no matter how presented.
I used to be a Walt hater, but these days I'm like...'what did this society do to that poor man to be so tormented'...
The animation on infographics is insanely good. Salute guys.
It looks the same to me for the last decade approximately.
@@fynkozari9271 Proof?
proof of what? This is not my first day on internet or CZcams, Ive been on internet since 2006 non stop.
@@fynkozari9271 Why though?
@@SUPERNOVA0360 this is a very funny conversation.
I appreciate the nuance that this video provides! I feel very frustrated when people criticize historical figures according to today's social standards. It's too easy to look back on a well-known person's life and say he should have done this and he should have done that. Peter Dinklage, Meryl Streep and whoever else have not been elected moral judges of the universe. They weren't raised in the same world as Walt Disney and weren't in his shoes. You can't retroactively apply our culture today to the past and be critical when it doesn't line up. Judge yourself and your own actions, and your life will be much better off.
AMEN!
Well said hindsight is the best 20/20 you cannot apply modern morals to people 50+ years ago. You look at most people with a moral test 90â will fail especially if they have wealth and power.
Yea abolitionists (liberal progressives) didn't exist back then
đ naw just do the right thing and it'll hold up throughout eternity. See Jesus Christ.
@@JohnDavis_90 haha Jesus is a special example. I wish everyone acted like him. My point is that itâs his job to judge people, not ours. đ
Walt Disney is still a saint in comparison with the monsters that lead the company today.
yes, walt disney was a genius, he changed the world, he made the best movies ever, the modern day people at disney just care about money HAIL DISNEY
It's funny how Dinkledge talks bad about movies portraying little people in that way but he had no problem taking paydays for acting in those movies. According to many little people actors it's hard finding roles as it is and now with Dinkledge's comments, all those actors won't be able to find work.
Peter Dinkledge also made a point to not take roles to perpetuated negative stereotypes about little people. He never once took a role as an elf or one of the seven dwarves even while he was a broke actor surviving off of ramen.
It's interesting on how Dinkledge refused to play a mythical creature known as a dwarf in Snow White, but he had NO problem playing one in the MCU, on Game of Thrones or in the last Cyrano movie when the lead character was now a dwarf instead of having a huge nose.
@@paulwoida8249 he was 16 feet tall in Thor what are you even talking about?
@@PoetPariahMusic Yes but its based on dwarves from the Norse lore. They just made him big in the movie so he would take the role or wont get offended.
@@BOMBON187 no he was based on marvel's dwarves they are huge
In certain parts of Europe "Mickey Mouse" magazines are being published/sold with his comics and as a long time fan 'of em (stopped buying/ reading 'em upon starting middle school and getting my hands on my first smarphone) I can 100% say Mortimer was Mickey's upper-class rival, oftentimes trying to court Minnie. đ Another fun fact is in the comics, Mickey was portrayed as a part-time police officer and an adventurer, one comic even depicting 'im trying to prevent an apocalypse in Mexico. (hope the last piece of info wasn't too much đ€)
Fun fact: The comics were originally targeted at the US only but heavily flopped there. Some say it's because they don't like reading.
Yeah i remember those. I think they stopped selling them in 2006 or something like that?
@@korribreki For some reason, Europeans loved Mickey comics, Goofy comics, Donald comics, Scrooge comics etc.
But brands like Marvel or DC never got a foothold. I got a Norwegian Superman number 1 in my closet. But that's pretty much it. They only released a few comics in th EU market before giving up.
One of the only comics still alive here in the modern era is Donald Duck. All other comic brands died out in the 2000's
@@SilentForrest Nah, I've lived in England, Sweden and Iceland and they all love DC comics (Marvel is also popular but not close) Belgium and Germany are both full of comic book stores too.
@@SilentForrest they never stopped making 'em
the 7 dwarves didn't live in a cave they lived in a house......their job was that of miners. how is that offensive.?
Mining is one of the most physically demanding jobs in the world, so showing dwarves mining and actually being _good_ at mining can only be a good thing.
Walt's questionable past explains a lot of Disney's actions today....
By trying to distance themselves from him and being a true neutral, they end up making him look like a paragon of virtue when compared to Disney Inc now.
Yes! Disney had more than a few skeletons in the closet, but the present-day wokeism is much more creepy.
I've seen song of the south in it's entirety, it's bad but it shouldn't be hidden, it needs to be shown so people understand that mistakes happen and we can progress from them
They are removing splash mountain as well.
By hiding the bad, it will be inevitably repeated, rinse and repeat.
The only good thing is the animation but not when it went to fully live action.
Okay, Walt Disney wasn't perfect. No human being is. But I've been given no clear, hard evidence that he was a terrible, evil man.
He sounds like a typical capitalist.
Jon Cena , chuck Norris , me, need anymore examples of perfect humans ?
Jon Cena , chuck Norris , me, need anymore examples of perfect humans ?
He might have not been evil but his company is
@@prinnyhayate5517 facts
A point needed tho, is that Dinkledge was called out by WWE's Hornswaggle for causing the loss of seven acting roles for an already marginalized group.
He knew what he was doing, canât have any competition in his possible roles
Those comments were Peter Dinklage knowing he's still only the second most famous little person actor and trying anything he thinks will bump him to #1. You will never be Warwick Davis, sorry about it.
I love how your videos are educational and entertaining đ
Let's just say that it was a different time, a different mentality and that it didn't age well at all. There are plenty of movies and cartoons from that period that fall into that category.
My dad worked at the local library. He would show the full length and newly released Disney movies in our back yard on the weekends. Just like it was shown in the theaters. It goes without saying that it became popular with the local parents.
Yes but essentially itâs bad lol
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By today's standard, absolutely !
@@thomasridley8675 So why keep it around in todays society? Why do we pander to things that do not align with our morality. Nostalgic reasons?
@@cartier-8548
They should be a reminder of just how much our general attitudes have changed for the better over the yrs.
It is part of the history of film and animation. And should be seen in that context.
@@thomasridley8675 yeh ur right back in the day racism was ok⊠tf
South Park has shown the most accurate depiction of the Disney Corporation.
Family Guy did pretty good too.
@@deerejohn7209 South Park did it better
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Flashgitz may just have the edge there.
Before Disney brought fox, the Simpsons movie moved Disney
I still have a lot of respect for Walt and love going to Disney WorldâŠhe isnât perfect but who is?
What is still chilling to me is one cast member recalled that Walt never said goodbye but the day before he went into the hospital Walt said goodbye to him
Is he perfect? Siding with Trash that murdered millions isnât falling short of perfect. The guy is disgusting beyond any reasonable measure. Respect what? He was a traitor.
True
âHe isnt perfect but who is?â He was a bad guy? Wdym not perfect. Its pretty easy to not be sexist, racially insensitive, anti this or that. Anti labor unions?
You do know he was a 33rd degree freemason, right? And you do know what that entails, right? Maybe do some research...not the greatest guy in the world & not the happiest place on earth.
@@lorelai9208 pretty common in the time period but either way that doesnât change the fact that he created a great world
Aaaaaaaannnnndddddd Disney just lost Steamboat Mickey
Peter Dinklage actually played a dwarf in Prince Caspian, the more you knowđ
Say what you will about the man, but he is a saint - compared to the people running his company now.
100%
Agreed
lol no he wasn't... he's mistreatment of women and minorities in his company is well documented lol.
Disney is not what it used to be
lol sure
Walt Disney didn't create Mickey Mouse alone. It was actually his best friend, Ub Iwerks, who designed the iconic cartoon in 1928.
They both created Mickey Walt create his personalty and Ub did the animation they both create mickey
I don't know if I have mentioned this before but you guys always have a nice score for your videos.
As it is with all people, heâs only human. This doesnât paint him as a bad man, only allows us to see Disney through realistic, human eyes.
I'd take Walt over any of these foul beasts running Disney now. BTW guess it was time for Infocrapics to take down another American Icon.
Yes, and though they wont talk about it i think all the good things he did outweigh the bad.
Great summary in under 16 minutes, but when Walt dropped out of 8th Grade, was that grammar school in Chicago or was that high school? Education is forever changing. Walt created a school that's now called CalArts--he was ashamed of dropping out of school and did his best to promote education.
Except schooling and education are two different things, especially when it comes to effectiveness.
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He has so many details Iâm starting to believe heâs an immortal being whoâs seen all of history
Comparing being short to slavery is crazzyy
By the 80s and 90s, Disney was more of a childrenâs company. When I watched any of those movies, I never thought anything negative ever. And in business, money talks. Theyâre going to go to war and what makes the money. It has nothing to do with their creator. All heâs doing is trying to make money. You canât be mad at him for entertaining the base audience, to make money. Itâs called the business and people are reading way too much, into some thing that happened decades and decades ago.
Not really, especially given what was always known by society to be wrong.
@@endtheccp4228 depends really on what is moral outrage vs practical practice. Morality in such matters really only hit when the actual thing is sustainable or the owners arbitrary personality kicks in. Walt isn't some great prophet but he certainly isn't the villain of entertainment he is painted to be. He's just financially successful, though his practice of taking credit is criticized today it's also done by those who criticized him in doing so.
I fast forwarded to the end and now Iâm stuck in a time displaced pocket dimension.
I saw "Songs of the South" in a theatre in 198X, and it truly made me think that racism was a horrible, terrible thing.
I watched it as an adult last year; didn't make it 15 minutes into the film! It is so *utterly, HORRIBLY* racist in its every line! I had no conception of how truly bad it was.
Wearing the rose coloured glasses of nostalgia, every red flag just looks like a flag.
You poor thing
Itâs a great movie and if the battle flag offends you you definitely donât understand the south. Itâs a badge of freedom and liberty and independence. It was the north that was the aggressor and Lincoln the traitor.
@@theyoutube8933 they didn't say a single thing about the confederate/battle flag. Also the main reason for southern succession was due to slavery
@@surfingbrrrd youâre wrong on that point. It was the tariffs imposed on the south by the fed government to enrich the northern states. The south at the time had the most money and largest businesses.
Slavery was about to end on its own due to its high cost. Lincoln made slavery an issue when the south was winning the war and to gain support in the north. It was political move not a moral one. Most slaves actually stayed on the same farm and plantations they were already working. Lincoln hated the south and did everything he could to ruin them even though it was him and his government that caused the war.
There is something deeply disturbing about a man who despises both women and cats.
They are either going to end up a serial killer or Walt Disney.
Be a killer, or rich? Is that a solid 50/50 split?
Walt also had a small scale steam railroad in his backyard. He was a major train guy. His small scale Live Steamers are still out there.
Once again, thank you for making videos like this. Not only does it amazingly go into detail about Walt but it ends on a broad note which emphasizes everyone to be open minded and learn as we're supposed to.
This video is very inaccurate and lacks a significant amount of context for some of the situations.
Theyâre making his image Hitlerâs image just look and you can see what theyâre doing.
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That is the first and only time I have heard Donald Duck described as "eternally happy".
Right?! Donald has one of the shortest fuses of any cartoon character!
All I got from this is that Walt was a shrewd businessman who did what he could to grow his business without necessarily crossing every t and dotting every i, not unlike most Americans back then and even now. Itâs all about the almighty dollar. Walt was an expert at marketing, of that, there is no doubt. This video didnât even talk about his dubious history of (discreetly) taking credit for animation techniques he didnât invent.
I hate him.
Yep this video doesn't want to get hated on by Disney so they played it as safe as possible but they got some info wrong.
Too many people get their feelings hurt or look for things to be offended about. I just ignore their stupidity
There's actually a movie about Walt's first years as an artist called "Walt Before Mickey", in which he was played by the same guy who played Kevin in American Pie
Oh yeah I saw that
I do believe the erasure of the reality of slavery in SOTS is not a racist act of cowardice, but a deliberate tactic Walt used and the company still uses today to get rid of any dark or serious themes in their movies to make it more family friendly. Famously he got rid of all the darker material in the Jungle Book that the source material had. The company then significantly toned down any dark, sad and heavy themes in their films (though the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas and The Lion King remained pretty dark in places)
Shouldn't have left out the fact he was a 33 degree free Mason or that Disneyland was used as a secret military base in the 50s
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@RGeeye you are correct, my mistake! I meant during the cold war times
Crazy to think that a person like this was the one who created our favorite, iconic childhood classics
He seemed to have always been quite brilliant, drawing and creating from an early age so it really isn't all that crazy at all.
he created Mickey Mouse and his gangs and this was and still brilliants but he didn't create our childhood classic like Snowwhite, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Treasure Island, Peter Pan and so on he based them on the originala nd he based them very beautifully we didn't know of them until he based them and make them our classic but let us give a little credit to the original writes without them they're will be no (favorite, iconic childhood classics)
1. Batman vs. A neighborhood of Bloods and Crips
2. Phoenix Jones the real life super hero in Seattle Washington
3. The open water movie about the couple and the sharks
4. Hernan Cortez and the Aztecs
5. Btk killer in Wichita Kansas
6. Golden Age Italian-American mafia vs. Todayâs Italian-American mafia
7. How a bank robber could use 20 year old money that he dug up after his prison sentence
8. The rise of rockstar games with Sam and Dan Houser
9. The rise of Walt Disney â
10. How prisoners get away with using cellphones in prison and how they get away with posting on Facebook
11. How much do actors make from each film? How do actors make their money when they arenât acting or filming? Is their acting checks enough to survive and live in luxury?
About Song of the South:
It seemed to me that Uncle Remus was the only adult that was a decent role model for the protagonist. Sure it depicted slavery, but that was a reality in some situations. I do not think that they were happy to be enslaved, but it is what they knew, and they did their best to enjoy what parts of life they could. I don't get that it was degrading or misrepresenting enslaved Africans in the American South. If anything, it showed them as wise despite not having an opportunity for formal education, kind despite not being treated fairly, and resilient in the face of highly unfair situations.
On the other hand, the white characters were shown to be shallow, foolish, violent, petty, selfish, and disrespectful.
That being said, I am not of African descent, I have never lived in the American South, and my family did not ever practice slavery, so there may be nuances that I missed.
Disney as a company is a sick company.
yeah but they still have the magic of entertainment that no-one else does
I'm 59 and I NEVER liked Disney cartoons. Even when I was young I felt Disney cartoons were insulting people's intelligence.
the whole point of cartoons is to entertain, of course there are some cartoons that are just cash grabs for kids but the best cartoons are the ones that have some good stories and characters, there is no need to go into any deep story just go to watch some good fun times with some characters that you love and laugh at, it's the whole point of cartoons
In 5th grade, we did a big long project about, you can choose anyone you can, dress up as them, draw a later board about their life and memorize their whole life story. I chose Walt Disney. I dressed up as Walt Disney, and memorized his whole life story.
I love how your videos provide all the information so the viewers donât have to fight through bias just to form their own conclusions.
Get real. Infographics is inga.ous bring overly politically correct.
@@starmnsixty1209 Iâm really curious what you were trying to type when you put âinga.ousâ? I canât think of a word thatâs close to that.
@@johnjacobs4280 probably infamous
I sincerely hope the op is just being ironic. If not, it's just sad.
Not all by far.
Family Guy did an episode a while back alluding toward some of the dark secret workings within the Disney franchise.
đđđ€Łđ€Łđđđ€Łđ€Łđđ Well if a degenerate Mic said it it must be true
I could imagine that Walt was just trying to put some specific atrocities in simple text for kids to understand, yet its not like he could be completely excused for some cartoons mentioned in this video
You know what they say
"Keep a close eye on your friends"
"Keep a closer eye on your enemies"
Oswald the lucky rabbit is just kinda forgotten from Disney history
Unrelated.
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Even though Disney created him FOR Universal.
He may have had his flaws, but at least he wasn't trying to sexualize content that's supposed to be child friendly like Bob Igor is doing now.
This reminds me when Disney made the remake movie of mulan in china 2020 in the same province of a work camp
You left out the fact that Leni Rifenstall toured the Disney studios less than 2 weeks after kristallnacht. And when she landed in New York she gave an interview with the New York times defending the Nazis..
It's in there, at 9.51.
These vids are the best. The amount of time and effort put into them is amazing.
U couldn't even have watched this one yet lol
@@kylekrynicki he knows itâs gonna be good because itâs the Infographics show
@@kylekrynicki lol I know but with this channel each video is amazing and entertaining.
Unless theyâre about ancient Egypt.
Maybe he just became infatuated with the "new thing" of natzism and after becoming familiar with it turned against it.
its incredible how ONE MAN can IGNITE the fire amongst others.
I actually know most of this. Walt Disney followed Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy (Objectivism is a philosophical system developed by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand. Rand first expressed Objectivism in her fiction, most notably The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), and later in non-fiction essays and books.[1] Leonard Peikoff, a professional philosopher and Rand's designated intellectual heir,[2][3] later gave it a more formal structure. Rand described Objectivism as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute".[4] Peikoff characterizes Objectivism as a "closed system" insofar as its "fundamental principles" were set out by Rand and are not subject to change. However, he stated that "new implications, applications and integrations can always be discovered".[5]) from Wikipedia. who was a Russian-Jewish woman who couldn't Soviet Communism even in her adolescent years unlike most Eurasian Jews who embraced Communism and were some of their leaders, hence the Jewish-Bolshevism canard.
An interesting thing not mentioned here is that Disney's surname was derived from the Norman "DâIsigny", which means "Lords of Isigny" - a title bestowed by William the Conqueror to a couple of his loyal followers in 1066 or close to it.
People rarely consider social norms when they consider the lives of past heroes. People have not always felt the way we do about life, and stuff, and everything
Mortimer is actually an enemy of mickey mouse, he pranks him all the time
If he was alive now, he'd be canceled by the Twitter mob.
For good reason
@@k4shr3di06 because he didnt like jews?
@@ahwmahwm5533 yeah
If he was alive now, he would have probably had different opinions.
I understand that kids today never heard the saying "sticks and stones" and feel bullied around every corner, but all of this needs to stop. The past is always foreign to youngsters, things that you say and do now will become unacceptable in the future. I wish that perspective instead of immediate emotional responses would become fashionable again. It's sad because half the time they are up in arms about something, it's because they are just reacting, sometimes to words and stories they don't understand. Probably there are better ways to change minds. Plus, cancelling something is throwing away teachable moments.
Bullying never stops, it just evolves to skirt the anti bullying measures.
By trying to stop bullying, you end up punishing the victims instead of the bullies.
Still a better person than Bill Cosby.
He said himself that Walt Disney is just a character, who will never do whatever the real him will do like smoking or drinking.
This shows to me that he at least know his flaws.
That's pretty random my little pudding cup.
Just fyi, snow white was written by the brothers Grimm in the 19th century, well before Walt was alive. He merely adapted it since it was an existing story in the free market
But who really is infographics.
Left out was that Walt Disney was a committed socialist--just not a communist. J. Edgar had some complaints about several Disney productions including one that poked fun at the FBI ("That Darned Cat"). Yes, real people are complicated. Worse, there was Uncle Walt on the Disneyland television program (ABC series) that later went through multiple evolutions to today's programming. There were multiple Walt Disney personalities in the park--the boss, the public Walt, friend of some. There was "Daddy," "Grandpa," and loving wife of Lillian. Walt complained once in public that he wasn't the real Walt Disney.
@Special K Look up Walt's father, Elias.
Very easy to try and paint someoneâs thoughts and actions decades removed from the times they were in. The times we are in now I think Walt would be irate to see what his company has become
Walt wouldâve shut down his company instantly if he saw it today.
@@manoftruth0935 can you blame him ?
My man switched teams more times than italy.
Disney I swear to god let the mouse go into the public domain already
Silly Dinklage, the dwarves lived in a house then worked in a cave. They liked their work so much they sang while they worked! Also the dwarves weren't dwarves as in short people, they were the magical people you see that walk with fairies, elves and friendly doctors! I think he gets it wrong because he WANTS to be offended..
Just Hollywood and its employees pushing "The Message".
Activism is trendy
Nah, he just doesnât want the possible competition
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I don't get it.
@@alienboy1322 don't get what?
As much as I love Disney's entertainment, I'm not blind to its history. Just goes to show why you should never put people on a pedestal, no one is 100% pure.
Why are you everywhere
hear hear. Don't listen to trolls, listen to your own experience.
It's ironic that people get upset at walt disney for making dark jokes. Since they also make jokes about Queen Elizabeth, 9/11, slavery, and the Holocaust
So Walt Disney was inspired by the famous Austrian painter with funny mustache.
Walt Disney was a person of his time, as we all are. Look at just about any celebrated person in history and you'll find a few things you don't like. Does that make them evil or bad? Not necessarily; it's just that they were people of their age. Walt Disney was no exception.
You forgot to put that is different a person born in early 1900s in usa and ANY former British colony and a person born in the early 1900s in Latin America (former Spanish or Portuguese colonies)
When accusing Walt Disney of racism because of his 1946 "Song of the South," the movie is clearly set in the post-Civil War era and the workers are obviously not slaves. Who paid slaves and allowed them to come and go freely? On the other hand, who complained about the 1956 "The Great Locomotive Chase" for its Civil War depiction of multiple slaves? Why wasn't that 1956 Fess Parker movie slammed?
Could the motivation have been Walt's anti-communism? The next year, Walt Disney appeared before the HUAC. Walt was also cooperating in the official persecution of communists. Could that have been the real reason for boycott of "Song of the South?"
Today's Disney company is again under fire for some of its many political activism antics. Had there been an obvious communist-inspired boycott of the Disney Company because of Walt Disney's political activism, perhaps today's Disney Company would have been less eager to climb on band wagons that careened over a cliff. Jumping into politics makes waves and makes enemies. There's circumstantial evidence that the 1946 boycott of "Song of the South" was politically motivated and had little to do with what was shown on the screen--but a lot to do with who was going to rule the nation. The lack of a 1956 boycott of "The Great Locomotive Chase" seems to support that.
This fight might make for a great video presentation on Infographics.
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They probably didn't mention a Fess Parker movie because this was an infographic on Walt Disney, not racist movies. A for effort though the what-aboutism is strong with this one.
@@KrakenIsland64 The Great Locomotive Chase was a Disney movie and television show. It was based on a book of the same name. Buster Keaton (not a Disney guy) served as inspiration for several Disney movies and Keaton's take on this was "The General." Walt Disney had a lot of input on The Great Locomotive Chase.
I still can be guilty of bringing up trivia--the Great Locomotive Chase showing happy slaves in Civil War America may have become trivial by 1956 but showing happy Freedmen in post-Civil War America was beyond the pale in 1946. Or it could have been politics as usual.
Song of the South was post Civil War right or wrong on the portrayal itâs a kids movies and James Baskett who played Uncle Remus was the first African American man to win an honorary academy award and the first Oscar so yeah destroy that guys legacy snowflakes
I was a kid when I saw Song of the South and all I ever thought about the movie was that it was about a kindly old man who liked telling stories to children. No one ever told me different. I am white and this is in the very very deep south. You can't honestly claim Disney was prejudiced when he made this cartoon.
I had the same experience watching this movie as a child, remembering Uncle Remus as a hero figure to a troubled white boy and loving the cartoon versions of his stories. Childhood memories are funny things, so maybe I missed what so many today are calling overt racism. I'm open to believing that, but would like to see the movie again first before making my own decision. I also wish others who make the claim that the movie is racist would have the opportunity to watch it first before passing judgement. Censorship often creates more problems than it cures.
Never trust someone that bad mouths the deceased, while they're not here to defend themselves. It's unseemly & probably untrue. You should be ashamed of yourselves...
"The rest of the world is welcoming by default....."
Not whatever it says.
I like these type of videos keep it up.
The irony of Meryl Streep calling out Walt Disney. How's your mate Roman Polanski doing?
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
Thanks for trying to be neutral and looking at both sides of the issue. Want a good biography of him, read the graphic novel 'The Disney Bros.' by Alex Nikolavitch and illustrated by Felix Ruiz. It really shows the human side of Walt, warts and all.
I know walt had some negative views(many people did back then) but I still have quite a bit of respect for him.
I don't want to make excuses for his actions but i think it was just the outside influences he grew up with and was surrounded by.
It was my understanding that Micky Rooney gave his name to the mouse.
Two of my friends draw for Disney since 1990s.