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'Walt & El Grupo' Documents Disney Diplomacy
NPR
You'd think the Disney studio would have been riding high in 1941. Snow White and Pinocchio had been huge hits; Dumbo and Bambi were in pre-production. But world affairs were cramping Walt Disney's style — especially a war in Europe that was drying up foreign markets and capital. Then an animator's strike at the House the Mouse Built left the filmmaker seriously depressed. By the time the Roosevelt administration came calling, urging him to make a goodwill tour of Latin America to help counter the diplomatic inroads Nazi Germany was making there, he was eager to get away.
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