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The New Spirit

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"The New Spirit" is a 1942 Wartime Cartoon and propaganda film made by the Disney studio. It features Donald Duck 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 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, but lost.Like most wartime cartoons the short is an Unintentional Period Piece and therefore never broadcast on television.In a case of What Could Have Been, 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, Franklin D. Roosevelt, convinced him to let Disney have his way.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })In 1943 a sequel was made, The Spirit of '43, which re-uses a lot of the same imagery.
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 The Cameo: 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 Pinocchio (1940).
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 Animate Inanimate Object: 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.
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 America Won World War II: 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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