History WesternAnimation / TheSpiritOf43

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''WesternAnimation/TheNewSpirit''. No sequel was needed in '44, because by then Federal Income Tax Withholding had been introduced.

Like most wartime cartoons the short is never broadcast on television, because it is an UnintentionalPeriodPiece. It is also one of the few Disney cartoons to have fallen into the PublicDomain early.

* WarTimeCartoon: A blatant example. The store where Donald wants to spend his money is called "The Idle Hour Club". It also has very unsubtle signs like "Blow your dough" and "Welcome, sucker!" Later the opening gates turns out to be a swastika and the spentworthy duck suddenly sports a Hitler moustache and wears swastika's on his clothing. He even produces swastika smoke rings from his cigarette pipe. When Donald punches the spentworthy duck into the store the swastika gates are destroyed and form the "V" sign with the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony playing in the background.

''The Spirit of '43'' is a 1943 WartimeCartoon and propaganda film made by the Creator/{{Disney}} company. It is a sequel to ''WesternAnimation/TheNewSpirit'' (1942).

* ShoutOut: The narrator quotes from UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech during his enthusiastic narration.
* TimeMarchesOn: From the title alone one can see this cartoon is dated. It was solely made as a war time propaganda short for the year 1943. It even names explicit dates (March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15) when everyone should pay his taxes.

* PropagandaMachine: This cartoons was made to make the American people understand why they should pay such high taxes in regard to the war effort.

* PublicDomainAnimation: Disney never renewed the copyright for this cartoon.

* AmericaWonWorldWarII: The second half of the cartoon shows how the tax payer's money is used to defeat Japan and Nazi Germany.

* ThriftyScot: The thrifty side of Donald is represented as a Scot, and appears to be a prototype of one Scrooge McDuck.

* AdolfHitlarious: When caught in a tug of war outside the Idle Hour club (with a swastika-shaped gate), when the narrator asks if Donald is going to spend for the Axis, the zoot-suit wearing Spendthrift is caricatured as the Fuehrer.

* ThoseWackyNazis: Apart from the spentworthy side of Donald, who is revealed to be a comedic caricature of Hitler, wacky Nazis are notably absent in this cartoon. In the second half of the cartoon Nazism is depicted as an evil monster which ought to be defeated.

* ThriftyScot: The thrifty side of Donald is represented as a Scot.

* WarTimeCartoon: A blatant example. The store where Donald wants to spend his money is called "The Idle Hour Club". It also has very unsubtle signs like "Blow your dough" and "Welcome, sucker!" Later the opening gates turns out to be a swastika and the spentworthy duck suddenly sports a Hitler moustache and wears swastika's on his clothing. He even produces swastika smoke rings from his cigarette pipe. When Donald punches the spentworthy duck into the store the swastika gates are destroyed and form the "V" sign.

* HilariousInHindsight: The Nazi war machines in this short look like they were purchased from [[{{TabletopGame/Warhammer40000}} Ork]] contractors, especially the inexplicable giant robot that looks like it was built by strapping guns to a random assemblage of scrap metal from other war machines.

* RefrainFromAssuming: The thrifty duck who represents Donald's good conscience looks like Scrooge [=McDuck=], but he predates the character by five years. Creator/CarlBarks created Uncle Scrooge in 1947. [[note]] That being said, Carl Barks did work on ''The Spirit of '43'', so maybe, just ''maybe'' Scrooge was ''inspired'' by the Scot. [[/note]]

'''The Spirit Of '43''' is a 1943 WartimeCartoon and propaganda film made by the Creator/{{Disney}} company. It is the sequel to ''WesternAnimation/TheNewSpirit'' (1942)

Like most war time cartoons the short is never broadcast on television, because it is an UnintentionalPeriodPiece. It is also one of the few Disney cartoons to have fallen into the PublicDomain early.

* RefrainFromAssuming: The thrifty duck who represents Donald's good conscience looks like a prototype of Scrooge [=McDuck=], but he predates the character by five years. Creator/CarlBarks created Uncle Scrooge in 1947.

* AmericaWinsTheWar: The second half of the cartoon shows how the tax payer's money is used to defeat Japan and Nazi Germany.

* HilariousInHindsight: The Nazi war machines in this short look like they were purchased from [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Ork]] contractors, especially the inexplicable giant robot that looks like it was built by strapping guns to a random assemblage of scrap metal from other war machines.

'''The Spirit Of '43''' is a 1943 WartimeCartoon and propaganda film made by the Creator/{{Disney}}. It is the sequel to ''WesternAnimation/TheNewSpirit'' (1942)