Politics and propaganda is a subject I have been aware of for a long time. This is due to having studied history in school where I learnt about propaganda cartoons in mediums such as posters, less so in actual animation so this was going to teach me new things. I learnt that animation is actually a very successful tool for propaganda. We looked at a Donald Duck cartoon produced by Disney that shows Donald living in a parallel USA where Germany have won World War Two.
I really enjoyed this animation and is something I did not expect from a piece of propaganda, to be as entertained as I was. But I feel this is the reason for why propaganda in animation is so successful. We watch Donald Duck, anyone of any age knows who Donal Duck is and we basically watch him with only the purpose of being entertained, we then do not expect to think a certain way as result of having watched tis cartoon.
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