There's a documentary on Bambi artist, Tyrus Wong, on PBS September 8th. Are you going to watch it? Also Bambi thread

There's a documentary on Bambi artist, Tyrus Wong, on PBS September 8th. Are you going to watch it? Also Bambi thread.

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What else did he do besides Bambi?

I find it kinda weird that people say Walt was racist, sexist etc. when that's clearly not the case.

There have been plenty of black, asian, mexican and even female artists that worked on his properties like Tyrus Wong, Floyd Newman etc.

Where did this Walt is racist meme even start?

nothing. the loser.

he was around in the fifties, and hitler was a fan of his work. I don't know probably those.

>Where did this Walt is racist meme even start?
He was supportive of Hitler before the War and the Holocaust and all that jazz. And made a few "colorful" comments about black people working in Disneyland or DW.

>Where did this Walt is racist meme even start?

I heard the antisemite rumors were created to try and ruin his business because you know, being an open antisemite would make working in Hollywood hard .

>After leaving Disney, Wong worked at Warner Brothers Studios for 26 years as a production illustrator.
Anyone know anything specific he worked on at WB? Or would something like a production illustrator back in those days mean he would've done a lot of uncredited work on a whole bunch of projects?

Contrarians and clickbait basically.

Disney was a part of a whole bunch of people's childhood. People like to shit on people's nostalgia and childhood memories, so they go on about Disney's cutthroat business and Walt's racism (which had more to do with the time period's racism than Walt being a mega Klansman or anything).

Well on one hand I can listen to people who knew him, on the other I can listen to people from Sup Forums who didn't.

Made paintings, designed kites, married, have grandchildren, lived past 100, and died content and happy

>He was supportive of Hitler before the war
So was everyone. Germany had a lot of sympathy for getting completely buttfucked over WWI

Because he was an actual supporter of Hitler before and after the war

He fired a doorman, who was described as the nicest man to employees, was fired by him because he was too dark and looked like a negro

So yeah, he was a piece of shit.

>Where did this Walt is racist meme even start?

Walt was anti union and anti communist. And also, he operated in the time of jewish consolidation of the media.

One common counter accusation against anti communists was that they hated jewish people. See the back and forth about the Rosenburg trial for example. The MPAA post war was similarly accused.

Walt also couldn't take a joke. He overheard some employees joking about him and joined in the laughter, acting really good natured and chill about it. He casually asked who started the joke and of course the guy admitted it. The guy was fired on the spot.

That's an urban legend and you didn't even get it right. The story goes that Walt saw some guys drawing porn of a character from one of the disney movies and fired them for it.

You are looking at the wrong race

He also hated commies

>your story is wrong it went like this!
>posts a completely different story
No wonder you thought it's fake.

The urban legend I'm talking about goes exactly the same way as your story described except it wasn't a joke but porn.

I'm sure when they thaw him out he'll learn the error of his ways.

Hitler was also a fan of dogs and ridiculous shorts

Read an article about this guy in the NYT (I think) a few months back. It was a great article on his life and career. Then I stalked his grandkids on FB.

None of this is remotely true. What is true is that he campaigned for the actor who played Uncle Remus in "Song of the South" to receive an Oscar and produced the chilling "Education for Death". So fuck right off
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This is all just bog standard "Everyone to the left of me is a Nazi. especially the generation that killed them"

Because Disney was the only non-jewish studio at Hollywood

This is like that anti-vac thing.

There are multiple stories of Walt treating everyone equally and fairly (even if he could be a hardass sometimes) and actually advocating for minorities, confirmed by actual Disney employees (including jewish, black and asian people), but you get a rumor or two without anyone to back it up and everyone believe it.

Modern people are literally willing to throw any straight white male of the past under the "racism" bus, regardless of what they actually did or believed.

That is true. Even Disney company wanted to join on this bandwagon.

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Bambi's mother.
That's how she got pregnant.

kek

maybe

I actually know his grandson (who is like 40) because he was on the national council for my fraternity. Nice guy, but all he does now is post hard left shit on facebook. I remember he posted a ton about his grandfather and Bambi right after he died tho.

>I'm from a very privileged family.
>I'd like to think I'm very open-minded.
>I look at my son and his very Asian face and want to tell him to be proud of who he is, because it's not easy to come from a non-white family.

God, it feels like everyone in this small clip was either apologizing for being white or commenting that it's not easy if you're not white.

That's the cool new thing to do.

If only we could see ourselves the way the rest of the world sees us: Shitty Americans. Better than segregating ourselves internally with labels.

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To be fair, Wong wasn't credited and he was fired during the union problem despite he was happy with his position and loyal to Disney

>tame collars

is this shit in the movie?
that's a really lame autistic idea

No, the whole idea was cut.

good

at the very last minute. they think old racism still applies.

A lotta unchecked digits here

I did a whole essay on this topic for school and the conclusion was essentially that he wasn't racist but like most americans of the time he was racially insensitive. Most of the rumors spouted from the racially insensitive jokes from his older cartoons and his involvement with Song of the South. Not to mention after the strike of 1941, Walt unknowingly aligned himself with the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, an organization which was founded to protect the film industry from the threat of fascism but also became a hub for many anti semites. Disney later left and distanced himself from the organization. He was also a well known conservative.

One year or two ago I looked around why all the "Walt Disney is a monster" meme, and that's what I found, IIRC:

It all started when Leni Riefenstahl, one of the few directors authorized by Nazi Germany (and Hitler's favourite), went in the US to promote her most known movie, Olympia, to many studios, including Disney.
That was before americans knew about the Kristallnacht (not sure if I spelled irt correctly), after that, any studios avoided her, all but Walt himself, bringing to him a lot of suspicions.
Another fact that fueled the suspects was his association with the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, known to be extremely antisemite, which brought a lot of rumors between several Disney animators who happened to be jewish, but were, like I said before, mostly rumors (nevermind the fact that Walt claimed that was mostly for money convenience for the latter, and for Leni he claimed that he still didn't know about the Kristallnacht).
About racism, that was mostly for the time, Disney wasn't exactly born and raised in a place of high class and luxury, and most of those things were more for lack of sensitivity (as a lot of people at the time) rather than a full-fledged hate
The whole communism thing is the one I'm not 100% sure, but apparently he was anticommunist, and supposedly he reported some of his workers that were actually communists.
In conclusion, Disney was never truly a nazi, but was considered such for the friendships he made, and was never truly able to remove the appellative.

>Floyd Newman
Floyd NORMAN

There was also a separate occasion where a couple of guys got together and made an animation of Mickey and Minnie having sex, Minnie stripping etc. as a joke for Walt's birthday and when they showed him he found it funny at first but then fired every person involved and had every known copy destroyed.

It's one of the greatest pieces of alleged lost media out there, to the point where it reaches urban legend status but it apparently happened.