Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945

Abstract

The golden age of animation stretched from the early 1930s to the mid1950s, with movie cartoons reaching an extraordinarily high level of artistry and technique far higher than todays TV cartoons, for instance. Nearly 1,000 cartoons were produced by the seven major animation studiosin the U.S. between January 1, 1939, and September 30, 1945 the immediate pre World War II period up to the cessation of hostilities. More than a quarter of the cartoons substantially refer to the war, and thereby are invaluable in helping to understand American attitudes and Hollywoods reflection of them.

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