The MousePod - MousePod #25 - Disney Goes To War
 

During World War II, 93% of the Disney company’s output was war-related. This show attempts to scratch the surface. I talk about many rarely-seen Disney shorts, including the infamous “Der Fuehrer’s Face”, and the full-length Victory Through Air Power.
Also in this episode is an interview with Jeff From Houston, aka The Meandering Mouse, host of his own podcast and founder of The Disney Podcast Network.
Perhaps the least-remembered Disney era, the period during World War II was not part of “The Long Pause”, but was actually a time of immense output and historical and artistic interest.
Hope you enjoy the show.
See you real soon,
Jesse

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Good news, this will help me get through what is going to be a stressed day at work, thanks Jesse!

Hey mp - if you can keep it under 80 min, I can fit it on one CD. I've been burning two. :)

What kind of CD are you burning to that 89MB won't fit on it?

Audio CD, it's not about file size, it's about being over 80 minutes.

I would assume she's burning it as a straight sound file, rather than a data file. Perhaps she's "recording" it, instead of copying the source.




ETA: I don't think there's any such thing as an "audio" CD. As I understand, all recordable CDs (or let's say 99% of consumer-available CDs) can record sound or store data. I believe Alex is implying (and I tend to agree) that you can fit the entire data file on CD, and then listen to it by opening the file on your computer ... but yeah, you wouldn't be able to listen to it in the car.

Yes, you're right about data vs. audio CD, but it's standard nomenclature to refer to a CD that's been burned with uncompressed audio that can be read by a standard CD players as an "audio CD". In that format, a CD can hold at most 80 minutes of music, regardless of the size of the source file. Some newer CD players do have the ability to read compressed audio files (MP3 being the most common format), but CP doesn't have one of those.

Yes, but is she needing to listen to it on a CD player, or will a computer or iPodish device do?

CD player's her only choice at the moment. iPod died, can't listen at work. So CD player in the car.

I doubt I can hold the show to 80 minutes each week. Even if I have a decent set of notes, I tend to find other things to say as the show progresses (and then there's the tricky part of finding my way back to the original topic).

I'm pretty sure that this show has a decent split at around 49 minutes in... if you use Audacity you can probably even see the point.

Doesn't she have a short commute? Won't it take about a month to listen to 1 hour 34 minutes?

Lunch.

BTW, I've listened to the first half hour...Jesse, I'm going to have to go with naive on this one. Hindsight is 20/20. While you'd be hard pressed to find more than a few people now who would argue that we should have stayed out of WWII, we spent 2 years sticking our fingers in our ears, closing our eyes, going "lalalala." Pearl Harbor may have forced our hand, but the country was hardly instantly gung-ho. So yes, propaganda was produced and used to turn the populace from begrudgingly accepting the inevitability of our participation into good old American hatred of the enemy. We have freedom fries, they had victory cabbage and Donald sieg heiling.

Good point, remember Lindbergh was also promoting isolationism at the time.

MP, great show. Sort of off topic, but do you think you will ever discuss the '41 strike? I'm amazed at all the things going on at the studio at that time, with Walt leaving the strike to head down to South America, and then Pearl Harbor totally changing the direction of the studio. That was sure alot of plates to keep spinning.

I have to admit that I played it a little dumb to make a point without getting too political. GD, you know that I scrapped several "false starts" when I started talking about Poland/Manchuria and Kuwait. I know that the show is primarily a "Disney" show and while I like to frame my opinions with fact, I had to really resist turning it into a Jesse Political Podcast.

As far as the strike, I touched on it in the Dumbo and "Good Neighbor" shows. I'm sure it will come up again when I do shows about the Nine Old Men as well. Heck, I was even thinking about the strike when I was contributing to GD's Goofy thread (Art Babbitt and all, y'know).

Thanks MP, I'll listen to those again.

Another very interesting show. But really, C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S and MOJO for joining the Disney Podcast Network. Good for you! :snap:

Oh, it figures. Not 10 seconds after I got in my car at lunch and hit play, Jesse admits, in as many words, that hindsight is 20/20 and that there were indeed examples of Disney propaganda.

Lesson learned, I'll be listening to whole shows before commenting from now on.

Aaaaannnnd.....I forgot the CDs at home. :rolleyes:

I definately need to get an ipod hook up to the car stereo or I'll never finish listening. I'm about 3 podcasts behind. I also need my own iPod. I "borrow" Madzers when she's not home but that's only every other week. She hasn't figured out what I've put on there yet.

I haven't finished the podcast yet, but I'm reminded that I've never cracked open that Frontlines DVD tin I purchased.

I'd seen "Victory Through Air Power" in the movies once, and had wanted to see it again. But obviously had not wanted to enough.

Hopefully, I will now be inspired to watch the film, and the other overflowing contents of the Frontlines set.

There are some real gems in there. You won't be sorry.