The family-friendly, controversy-averse Walt Disney Co. has walked into the buzz saw of the American culture wars, version 2022. In April, officials at Disney objected to a Florida law prohibiting ...

For five weeks in 1941, Disney cartoonists launched an artist's strike on the company which ultimately changed the dynamic of the studio. The strike reshaped the rights of Disney animators and made ...

The Walt Disney of 1941 would be stunned by the success of modern-day Disney: It is in the midst of its best year ever, about to break the $2.4 billion domestic box office record Universal set last ...

We’ve all seen the 16mm color footage of Walt Disney visting South America in 1941. Now, courtesy of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Culture website, comes a segment from a 1941 newsreel (in Spanish) ...

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The animators wanted to join the Screen Cartoonists Guild, a move Walt Disney resisted. Workers staged a walkout, and on July 9, 1941, Variety reported, “There was the added charge that subversive and ...

Walt Disney testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee claiming that communists once 'took over' his studio. Bettmann/Getty Images The family-friendly, controversy-averse Walt Disney ...