Hitlers Traum von Micky Maus - Zeichentrick unterm Hakenkreuz
The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best animators are summoned to Berlin. Their task: Producing feature-length cartoons in âDisney-Qualityâ with the newly founded âDeutsche Zeichenfilm GmbHâ. To get trained, the Disney movie âSnow Whiteâ is re-traced frame by frame. After the final victory, one new feature-length production of quality shall be released every year from 1947 onwards. â that is the plan. Only in 1943, the first production is completed: âArmer Hansiâ a 17-minute-long colour movie, realized with the effortful Multiplane-technology. The second film by the âDeutsche Zeichenfilmâ is only completed in 1946 â by DEFA. In the territories occupied by Germany, cartoons are produced as well, sometimes harmless ones, sometimes propagandistic ones. With excerpts from animated movies, life-action film documents, and witness reports by contemporaries, this documentary draws a picture of the cartoon production in the third Reich.
