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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "My Country Tis Of Thee That I Sing" are heard on the soundtrack. Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's "5th Symphony" is quoted too, because the opening bars were the signal of the "V for Victory" campaign.
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "My Country Tis Of Thee That I Sing" are heard on the soundtrack. Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's "5th Symphony" 5th Symphony is quoted too, because the opening bars were the signal of the "V for Victory" campaign.
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"The New Spirit" is a 1942 WartimeCartoon and propaganda film made by the Creator/{{Disney}} studio. It features WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck being explained by a radio broadcast how his taxes can be used to support the war effort. The rest of the cartoon shows the audience how the money will be used to defeat the Axis. The cartoon was quite a success and many Americans did indeed pay their taxes more gleefully afterwards. It was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for ''Best Documentary Feature'', but lost.
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"The New Spirit" is a 1942 WartimeCartoon and propaganda film made by the Creator/{{Disney}} studio. It features WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck being explained by learning from a radio broadcast how his taxes can be used to support the war effort. The rest of the cartoon shows the audience how the money will be used to defeat the Axis. The cartoon was quite a success and many Americans did indeed pay their taxes more gleefully afterwards. It was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for ''Best Documentary Feature'', but lost.
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* TheCameo: Huey, Louie and Dewey appear for a brief moment when Donald thinks of his dependents. The singing voice at the start of the cartoon is Cliff Edwards, best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' (1940).
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* TheCameo: Huey, Louie and Dewey appear for a brief moment when Donald thinks of his dependents. The singing voice at the start of the cartoon is Cliff Edwards, best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' (1940).
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* TimeMarchesOn: It was solely made as a war time propaganda short for the year 1942.
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* TimeMarchesOn: It was solely made as a war time propaganda short for the year 1942. More significantly, even accounting for inflation, Donald gets a pretty sweet deal: his 1942 salary in 2018 dollars is roughly $38,000, and his income tax is worth roughly $200 in 2018 ([[http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ converted here]]). His income tax is ''less than a percent'' of his yearly income, and that's during a war!
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* TheCameo: Huey, Louie and Dewey appear for a brief moment when Donald thinks of his dependence. The singing voice at the start of the cartoon is Cliff Edwards, best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' (1940).
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* TheCameo: Huey, Louie and Dewey appear for a brief moment when Donald thinks of his dependence.dependents. The singing voice at the start of the cartoon is Cliff Edwards, best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' (1940).
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* EverybodyIsSingle: Donald is described as single with dependence, as he takes care of Huey, Louie and Dewey who are his nephews.
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* EverybodyIsSingle: Donald is described as single with dependence, dependents, as he takes care of Huey, Louie and Dewey who are his nephews.
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'''The New Spirit'' is a 1942 WartimeCartoon and propaganda film made by the Creator/{{Disney}} studio. It features WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck being explained by a radio broadcast how his taxes can be used to support the war effort. The rest of the cartoon shows the audience how the money will be used to defeat the Axis. The cartoon was quite a success and many Americans did indeed pay their taxes more gleefully afterwards. It was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for ''Best Documentary Feature'', but lost.
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'''The New Spirit''' is a 1942 WarTimeCartoon and propaganda film made by the Creator/{{Disney}}. It features WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck being explained by a radio broadcast how his taxes can be used to support the war effort. The rest of the cartoon shows the audience how the money will be used to defeat the Axis. The cartoon was quite a success and many Americans did indeed pay their taxes more gleefully afterwards. It was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for ''Best Documentary Feature'', but lost.
Like most war time cartoons the short is an UnintentionalPeriodPiece and therefore never broadcast on television.
In a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., initially wanted a generic Mr. American Taxpayer to star in this short, but Disney was adamant that Donald be used, on the grounds that he had more popularity, and Morgenthau's boss, UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, convinced him to let Disney have his way.
Like most war time cartoons the short is an UnintentionalPeriodPiece and therefore never broadcast on television.
In a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., initially wanted a generic Mr. American Taxpayer to star in this short, but Disney was adamant that Donald be used, on the grounds that he had more popularity, and Morgenthau's boss, UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, convinced him to let Disney have his way.
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'''The New Spirit''' Spirit'' is a 1942 WarTimeCartoon WartimeCartoon and propaganda film made by the Creator/{{Disney}}.Creator/{{Disney}} studio. It features WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck being explained by a radio broadcast how his taxes can be used to support the war effort. The rest of the cartoon shows the audience how the money will be used to defeat the Axis. The cartoon was quite a success and many Americans did indeed pay their taxes more gleefully afterwards. It was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for ''Best Documentary Feature'', but lost.
Like mostwar time wartime cartoons the short is an UnintentionalPeriodPiece and therefore never broadcast on television.
In a case ofWhatCouldHaveBeen the WhatCouldHaveBeen, Secretary of the Treasury, Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Jr. initially wanted a generic Mr. American Taxpayer to star in this short, but Disney was adamant that Donald be used, on the grounds that he had more popularity, and Morgenthau's boss, UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, convinced him to let Disney have his way.
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In a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., initially wanted WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse to star in this short, but Disney was adamant that Donald was used and he got his way.
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In a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., initially wanted WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse a generic Mr. American Taxpayer to star in this short, but Disney was adamant that Donald was used be used, on the grounds that he had more popularity, and he got Morgenthau's boss, UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, convinced him to let Disney have his way.
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* AmericaWinsTheWar: The second half of the cartoon shows how the tax payer's money is used to defeat Japan and Nazi Germany.
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* AmericaWinsTheWar: AmericaWonWorldWarII: The second half of the cartoon shows how the tax payer's money is used to defeat Japan and Nazi Germany.
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'''The New Spirit''' is a 1942 WarTimeCartoon and propaganda film made by the Creator/{{Disney}}. It features WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck being explained by a radio broadcast how his taxes can be used to support the war effort. The rest of the cartoon shows the audience how the money will be used to defeat the Axis. The cartoon was quite a success and many Americans did indeed pay their taxes more gleefully afterwards. It was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for ''Best Documentary Feature'', but lost.
Like most war time cartoons the short is an UnintentionalPeriodPiece and therefore never broadcast on television.
In a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., initially wanted WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse to star in this short, but Disney was adamant that Donald was used and he got his way.
In 1943 a sequel was made, ''WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOf43'', which re-uses a lot of the same imagery.
!! "The New Spirit" provides examples of:
* AmericaWinsTheWar: The second half of the cartoon shows how the tax payer's money is used to defeat Japan and Nazi Germany.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Donald's pen, ink and blotter are alive. Even the radio seems alive, because it is shaped like a face and reacts to the things Donald says. The mailbox also reacts with surprise when Donald zooms past it.
* TheCameo: Huey, Louie and Dewey appear for a brief moment when Donald thinks of his dependence. The singing voice at the start of the cartoon is Cliff Edwards, best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' (1940).
* {{Documentary}}: It was perceived as a documentary by the Hollywood Academy, who nominated it for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for ''Best Documentary Feature'' in 1942. It was one of 24 films nominated for that honor and lost, but it was the only cartoon to be bestowed with such an honor.
* EverybodyIsSingle: Donald is described as single with dependence, as he takes care of Huey, Louie and Dewey who are his nephews.
* PatrioticFervor: The cartoon plays on the patriotic pride of its American audience.
* PropagandaMachine: This cartoons was made to make the American people understand why they should pay such high taxes in regard to the war effort.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "My Country Tis Of Thee That I Sing" are heard on the soundtrack. Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's "5th Symphony" is quoted too, because the opening bars were the signal of the "V for Victory" campaign.
* ShoutOut: The narrator quotes from UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech during his enthusiastic narration.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOf43''.
* SuperSpeed: Donald is so determined to pay his income taxes that he personally runs all the way from California to Washington D.C.
* TimeMarchesOn: It was solely made as a war time propaganda short for the year 1942.
* WarIsGlorious: The war effort will surely lead to victory, according to the narrator.
* WarTimeCartoon: As blatant as they come. Donald is explained in great detail what to do in order to fill in his tax income record, while he, at first a bit resistant, eagerly joins in.
* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: It may come as a surprise that Donald is apparently not a sailor, but describes himself as "an actor". Even his pen is in doubt as he puts a question mark behind this profession.
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'''The New Spirit''' is a 1942 WarTimeCartoon and propaganda film made by the Creator/{{Disney}}. It features WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck being explained by a radio broadcast how his taxes can be used to support the war effort. The rest of the cartoon shows the audience how the money will be used to defeat the Axis. The cartoon was quite a success and many Americans did indeed pay their taxes more gleefully afterwards. It was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for ''Best Documentary Feature'', but lost.
Like most war time cartoons the short is an UnintentionalPeriodPiece and therefore never broadcast on television.
In a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., initially wanted WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse to star in this short, but Disney was adamant that Donald was used and he got his way.
In 1943 a sequel was made, ''WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOf43'', which re-uses a lot of the same imagery.
!! "The New Spirit" provides examples of:
* AmericaWinsTheWar: The second half of the cartoon shows how the tax payer's money is used to defeat Japan and Nazi Germany.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Donald's pen, ink and blotter are alive. Even the radio seems alive, because it is shaped like a face and reacts to the things Donald says. The mailbox also reacts with surprise when Donald zooms past it.
* TheCameo: Huey, Louie and Dewey appear for a brief moment when Donald thinks of his dependence. The singing voice at the start of the cartoon is Cliff Edwards, best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' (1940).
* {{Documentary}}: It was perceived as a documentary by the Hollywood Academy, who nominated it for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for ''Best Documentary Feature'' in 1942. It was one of 24 films nominated for that honor and lost, but it was the only cartoon to be bestowed with such an honor.
* EverybodyIsSingle: Donald is described as single with dependence, as he takes care of Huey, Louie and Dewey who are his nephews.
* PatrioticFervor: The cartoon plays on the patriotic pride of its American audience.
* PropagandaMachine: This cartoons was made to make the American people understand why they should pay such high taxes in regard to the war effort.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "My Country Tis Of Thee That I Sing" are heard on the soundtrack. Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's "5th Symphony" is quoted too, because the opening bars were the signal of the "V for Victory" campaign.
* ShoutOut: The narrator quotes from UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech during his enthusiastic narration.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOf43''.
* SuperSpeed: Donald is so determined to pay his income taxes that he personally runs all the way from California to Washington D.C.
* TimeMarchesOn: It was solely made as a war time propaganda short for the year 1942.
* WarIsGlorious: The war effort will surely lead to victory, according to the narrator.
* WarTimeCartoon: As blatant as they come. Donald is explained in great detail what to do in order to fill in his tax income record, while he, at first a bit resistant, eagerly joins in.
* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: It may come as a surprise that Donald is apparently not a sailor, but describes himself as "an actor". Even his pen is in doubt as he puts a question mark behind this profession.
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