Victory Through Air Power (movie)
Victory Through Air Power is a 1943 Walt Disney Technicolor animated movie. It is based on the 1942 book Victory Through Air Power by Alexander P. de Seversky. De Seversky is in the movie. This was different from the Disney animated movies of the time.[1]
| Victory Through Air Power | |
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Trailer | |
| Directed by | Perce Pearce Animated Sequences: James Algar Clyde Geronimi Jack Kinney de Seversky scenes: H.C. Potter |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Written by | Story direction: Perce Pearce Story adaptation: T. Hee Erdman Penner William Cottrell James Brodero George Stallings Jose Rodriguez |
| Based on | Victory Through Air Power by Maj. Alexander P. Seversky |
| Starring | Alexander de Seversky |
| Narrated by | Art Baker |
| Music by | Edward H. Plumb Paul J. Smith Oliver Wallace |
| Cinematography | Ray Rennahan |
| Edited by | Jack Dennis |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $788,000 |
| Box office | $799,000 |
The movie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
On December 8, 1941, The Walt Disney Company became a propaganda machine for the United States government. While most World War II movies were made for training, movies such as Victory Through Air Power were made to build public morale among the U.S. and Allied powers.[2] Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt were influenced by the movie.[3]
Victory Through Air Power (movie) Media
A still from Victory Through Air Power, showing a rocket–bomb destroying a Nazi German U-boat pen.
References
- ↑ Markenstein, Don. "Victory Through Air Power." toonopedia.com, Don Markenstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved: May 12, 2009.
- ↑ "Disney goes to war." Archived 2021-04-27 at the Wayback Machine skylighters.org. Retrieved: September 16, 2011.
- ↑ Gooch 1995, p. 16.