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  • Classic Disney and a fitting description of today's media as well...

  • Is it just my computer is is the audio OFF Sync??

  • power thru fear... why does that sound familiar?

  • Who was the man at the beginning introduction? Is it Leonard Maltin?

  • "That's great...fine...FOR HITLER!"

  • The audio seems severely off from the video track.

  • Thumbs up if you think this idea should be made into a feature length film.

  • Thumbs up if you think this idea should be made into a feature length film.

  • "FOX NEWS"

  • too bad political correctness prevents children from getting straightforward info like this these days. wouldn't it be nice if we had one of these vids addressing the spectre of "terrorism"?

  • Clips from this were used in a Von Drake special where he talks about intelligence, reason, and fate. I can't remember the name of it though. Any help?

  • "go ahead put reason out of the way. thats great, fine....... FOR HITLER."

    that part made me laugh, i'm going to start saying that all the time. someone going to be like "I'm thinking about getting a pepperoni pizza today." and i'll just be like "thats great, fine...... FOR HITLER."

  • 4:15 the acid kicks in

  • Hitler sucks, but that's messed up that they gave him fanged teeth. lol

  • lol....emotion has the entire place to himself, he can do as he pleases.....*FAP*FAP*FAP*FAP*F­AP*FAP*FAP*

  • And these days you get arrested for saying the word "gun"

  • Its interesting how is the west we always consider the the opposites of reason and emotion to be in battle or war ? when all that's really needed is a marriage,an equity between them.Unfortunately all we have now is extremes of either.

  • Reason is the slave of passion, according to David Hume---the most mild mannered and sensible of 18th century philosophers. Passion is the uncritical use of reason. The film is an example of the evil it depicts.

  • I think Milt Kahl animates the scene at 5:49.

  • GREAT, love this, just perfect!

  • Aw, I wanted to see that chick get fat!

  • I'm sorry, I had to stop watching this after about a minute because of bold-faced lies. EVERYONE is able to think? And EVERYONE has emotions? I think the internet has proved BOTH theories WRONG.

    ;)

  • How is "Hi babe, going my way." deserving a slap in the face? Oh well, different times.

  • Hitler was one big fallacy specialist

  • Thats fine, FOR HITLER !! =

    the new FMTPO

  • Fox News uses fear and hate to manipulate the emotional centers of gullible Americans.

  • I think the portrayal of the common german officer as a "pig" with his facial features/pinkness is un-neccesary by today's standards. But back then, when this was made, I suppose the American fear of communism was very real.

  • Dude's got a honker!

  • I like how Hitler was portrayed as a monster with pointy teeth...I've seen some other portrayals in similar cartoon works for kids...they must have been really surprised to see him in actual photographs haha

  • 4:25 bitchslaped

  • "He is a genius and a great weeder!"

  • Clever cartoon, but...why isn't the man's moral worth connected to how his body looks?

  • you could use this cartoon as a sociology essay on charimatic leaders (i.e. Hitler)

    these story guys were genius!

  • When reason cannot control you, work for govt.

  • the message of the video is really great, but I didn't like the way they made the american soldier look like Tom Cruise 8:08 and the german soldier look like a dope 6:13

  • excellent message. But I don't like the way they made the american soldier look like Tom Cruise 8:08 , and the German soldier look like a dope 6:13

  • This is very great!! A great moral from this tale and a lesson.

  • So, finally, both reasons and emotions ended up with WAR

  • Realy it is interesting because, Hitler sort of new he had a nack for moving the "mob" and this shows in ways of propaganda how he could have used emotion against reason but still you havr to thinkthat there where Germans who didn't belive or have a single shred of respect for him or his reason/emotion. And in my opinion i think this is a very interesting piece of propaganda history and i thank you for putting it up.

  • I thought this was an interesting cartoon short. I have the DVDs for the Disney world war 2 cartoons, before the war ended.

  • What parent lets their child alone like that?! No wonder the kid fell down the stairs.

  • Reason & Emotion, AKA LIberal and Teabagger

  • Bill Robert's finest hour.

  • was the voice of the girl's emotion one of the gosspiy elephants in dumbo? kind of sounds similar

  • Ummm ... I know this is from the DVD , In the Front Lines .

  • Very nice. However, considering its supposed message, I find everything from 7:35 and out a little incoherent with the rest of the film.

  • Wonderful message, and not just for war either.

    My favorite part, "PO-TATE-O SALAD!"

  • lol, me too!

  • I like this a lot, Disney really captures the basis of human thinking.

  • Yeah, I do too. Too bad this film was about WWII. lol.

  • This explains what the media has done to our economy for the past two years...the people have actually given in to the hype. Less than 5% of mortgages are in trouble and they want you to believe this caused the banks to fail...I do not think so. You have to remember, for mass hysteria to take hold, you have to keep telling the same lies for a long enough time and people will actually start to believe them. When the media stops the "panic" and "crisis" lingo, the economy will fix itself...

  • absolutely! The worse thing to happen to our economy in the last year was when former President Bush went on national TV and said "We are in a financial crisis" Confidence went right down to toilet.

  • they should've watched this cartoon.

  • @jackassateveryturn I agree, now more than ever our economy is closely tied to information and the media, because of the stupidity of the people.

  • Leonard Maltin

    though this is probably way too late to help you.......

  • That's film critic Leonard Maltin.

  • How come they don't explain what happens if you have no emotion?

  • OMG i actually saw this film when i was younger, but it had been edited, severely edited. The one i saw when i was a kit had the whole nazi scene completely gone and the narrator was Ludwig von Drake (the german sounding duck). So weird :)

  • It's been six months, but the host is Leonard Malton.

  • Well, it's been six months, but...

    The host is Leonard Malton.

  • Well, it's been six months, but...

    The host is Leonard Malton.

  • Slapping a flirting man in the face is not rational ...

  • hes a movie critic. the name escapes me!

  • Hey, did anyone notice the secret message of the cavemen in the german guys head? He acts and then turns into Mussolini(who btw, was Hitlers puppet in ww2)! Ah Disney, your cartoons were of such colourful nature. XD

    Too bad they've been soiled by today's crap.

  • well "americans"(us) are good at half truths

  • Anyone who wants to watch WW cartoons look up the book "Doing their bit" by M. Shull and D. Wilt

  • the point is not that emotion is *always* bad. if you think that you should watch the movie "equilibrium".

  • I don't know about anyone else but I LOVED THIS! It had some great point about how we need to keep our emotions in check.

  • at the very end, it seems like they wanted you to use strictly reason, and have emotion present, but not acting upon it...

  • Leonard Maltin.

  • Only disney put something so important into such great perspective,,classic disney ftw.

  • Ironic how you still don't get it.

  • 1:57-2:00 is recycled from Pinocchio's cry from "Pinocchio".

  • Maybe the kid who played Pinocchio played the baby Emotion.

  • 0:35-50 was recycled from another WD cartoon called "The Pelican and the Snipe", which I own on my Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities DVD release.

  • If anything, Pelican and The Snipe took it from this...it came out after 'Rythm and Emotion'.

  • The Pelican and the Snipe recycled it from here...it came out in 1944, after this picture.

  • American propaganda at it's best, because the Brits and tommies can only figure it out by means of cartoons. A good video at that, but still.

  • I wonder if The Bush administration would like to play this to the public and then perhaps have a referendum on the patriot act???? coming from a small minded brit who only understands cartoons!!! Peace.

  • GermanConquistador08:

    AWESOME JOB USING EMOTIONAL APPEALS, DUDE!

    would you happen to be wearing a tiny little spotted loincloth?

  • they pritty much used the whole thing them selfs... there was the pride to their country, at one point there was fear (the news and stuff, i think...), you could see that, you could feel sympathy to reason..... hate against nazi's..... XDD but man, did i laugh... and when we went to the female head? "think of your figure! we are a lady!" ouh dear LORD!!! XD

  • the female head doesn't make any sense. smacking guys in the face while they don't harm you and being obsessed with weight is not rational it is clearly irrational.

  • Next time a kid wants something stupid I'm going to say that. You want to waste money on that toy? Okay. That's fine. FOR HITLER!!!

  • i lol'd.

  • LOL

  • I thought Hitler bribed everyone with free German lager beer o_O

  • He spoke in gastronomic used beer cellars in the first years.

  • Ironic how today's American state financed information preys on emotion

  • Amen.

  • That's great, fine, FOR HITLER. LOL

  • yes, very ironic. Disney has used the same techniques as the Nazis. I guess they didn't learn anything from their own video! (like u said, its the last few minutes when Disney slips into the same 'emotional manipulation' techniques)

  • In the end, emotion is tempered with reason, as it should be.

  • Irrationality should be tempered with reason. "Doing something on instinct" vs "Thinking"

    Emotions, the positive ones, should be enjoyed while the negative emotions should be avoided. This discrimination is done by reason.

  • at 2:20: "Junior grows up into an average normal male"

    I've never seen a nose like that before.

  • @0504dj You should see Ichabod Crane's nose. It's bigger than Junior's!

  • Disney definitely mixed up "emotion" and "instinct." I think you need a good balance of the three (emotion, instinct, and reason) in order to be a functioning human being. Otherwise, you get a cold dictator, or an oversensitive wuss, or a brutish caveman.

  • we need more thoughts and comments like this one. Thank you for posting.

  • An excellent film - I'd add that ones spirit (not mind) should be at the wheel with bespectacled reason calculating the best route and emotion singing a tune.

  • no such thing as spirits unfortunately

  • did u hear him tell Reason to discriminate? what the hell lol

  • Discriminate in this context means, to distinguish between things. To make a judgement as to truth. "Discrimination" as in racial discrimination is the idea of prejudice. Pre-judging something based on race without looking at the merits of the person. Hope this helps.

  • you heard me...a club sandwich and PO-TA-TO salad....LMAO

  • Lol. Freakin' cartoon telling me I can't eat what I like. Thank God for fast metabolisms!

  • Lucky.

  • why is emotion a caveman?

  • because caveman not have much reason

  • I think prehistoric people where just as rational and emotional as people today.

  • Why dont they show what cold reason can do?

  • Disney with a touch of Kantian Ethics

  • The depiction is a little hypocritical. After all, it was an emotional appeal that led Americans to get involved in WW2. I think it was the right thing to do (in that case), but it was still an emotional decision.

  • Pearl Harbor, Japan and Germany had nothing to do then?. Americans only 'felt' they had been attacked?. It was a feeling or an evidence?.

  • Emotion's crying sounds like Pinocchio's crying.

  • The greatest generation, our finest hour.

  • This movie is soo good..ill put it on my myspace andd send it to friends too its soo cool

  • It's unbelivable how watching these little pieces from Walt Disney can be so education..full of moral! And a shame that they dont put anything like this on tv anymore..(as well done as his first creations)..

    The characters were really well done..you dont see that on tv anymore =(

  • And a cartoon is completely rational... Hitler observed the propaganda tactics of the Americans and British during WWI and employed them. No one is innocent when it comes to propaganda.

  • I love how Hitler looks in this.

  • Best cartoon ever.

  • Quite possibly the best thing on the entire internet. Thank you so much for making this available.

  • Absolutely brilliant. A masterful summation of the difference between civilization and tyranny.

  • This is pretty good.  Thanks for uploading.

  • Didn't Hitler realise that emotion only makes you think more of the faults you have done and the person who plays reason looks like an American in a Germans head?

    I hated Hitler because of lots of things but I liked him for standing up against the Democratry but in the wrong way.

  • "Why don't the surrender monkeys in Hollywood make movies like this today?"

    Surrender what? To whom? Who are we fighting? Sadam Hussein's regime is gone. The situation in Iraq is a civil conflict. This is what 'reason' is telling me. 'Emotion' is telling you that people who think like that are 'surrender-monkeys.'

  • As much as I think the nazis deserve every bit of mockery they get, there's something really absurd about seeing DISNEY invoke godwin's law.

  • I have to agree with nalikill, adding in hitler makes it an appeal to emotion. I also find it funny that they're denouncing nazi pride in one part but telling you to be proud of you're country in the end.

  • Yeah. Blind patriotism is more in "emotion"'s ballpark. I'm a big fan of well-reasoned patriotism, but "that's fine...FOR HITLER" is just so utterly cheesy.

    I do like how Emotion looks like a caricature of animator Ward Kimball though.

  • Yeah, blind patriotism makes me uncomfortable, but I'm a big fan of well-reasoned patriotism. "That's fine...FOR HITLER" is just so utterly cheesy it makes me cringe. But hey, this is just a Disney cartoon.

  • Well, this WAS propaganda. C'mon, it has GOT to follow an internal logic which puts it into the "this is stupid" realm. As EA Blair said, propaganda is wrong even when it's right. Keep in mind this is 1942- not exactly the most sophisticated time. Yes, we hipsters see through it now with a groan, but hipsters see through it based on 50 years worth of accumulated acculturation to propaganda: this was pretty subtle for its day.

  • "Surrender monkey." Yea you tell 'em, you paragon of logic. It was the rational arguments of George Bush that led us to Iraq and his rational anticipations of the cakewalk it turned out to be. Thank goodness we're run on Oil and dichotomy.

  • pr0ud1nf1del, you nailed that one on the head. and excellent point sledge0001.

  • Are you kidding me? You watched all that, and you take away with that? The fact that Bush uses emotion, fear and pride, to get you into a war, doesn't ring familiarity with Hitler?

  • Mr. Looney, it all comes down to worldview and bias. Your bias obviously is that the USA is in a fascist dictatorship where free speech is gone and we are just minutes away from a police state/martial law. That view seems extreme to me when many (emotional) protests are going on every other week and hardly anyone is clubbed into submission by an over-zealous soldier/policeman. Granted, some hyper-emotional types get tasered because of their over the top outbursts but those are the exception.

  • So, I see why your Emotions tell you Bush is equal with Hitler, but you should really let Reason get in the driver seat for awhile so you can realize things are still far better here than any other place in the world. Try holding your protests in Saudi Arabia/Iran/North Korea/France/Etc. and see what happens.

  • My reason is telling me that Bush went into a badly planned war guided by emotion.

  • It's interesting how your emotion responds to people disagreeing with you that the US is the best place on earth.

  • exactly.. this is how the neocons bamboozled Americans into fearing Iraq.

  • Hah, i love the random nonsense German.....plus 4:07-4:50.....I want a club sandwich and a double thick milkshake with PO-TA-TO SALAD lol

  • I remember seeing this cartoon on a tape with some changes: Ludwig von Drake was narrating, the Nazi scenes were cut out, and the last 29 seconds were also scrapped, making the cartoon less WW2-ish and more family-friendly. It's good to see Reason & Emotion in its entirity.

  • I always wanted to ask people who were around then. I assume they saw it on TV, but didn't they have it on the trail end of films or something? I don't remember seeing any old footage of this on television, but I did see a lot from people sitting in films watching a kind of news/propaganda vehicle, like where we'd have dancing popcorn. If any of you old timers see this, I'd love to hear about it.

  • nothing has changed except kids today don't get to see these forces so clearly portrayed and just get confused or depressed when they don't have emotional guidance.

  • How Ironic that, today, virtually all DISNEY media and American media in general tend to support EMOTION over Reason! You could power a city block with all the spinning old Walt must be doing in his grave...

  • female=emotion ...male reason..."the female must at all times watch her figure," or the reason/male what approve...im just saying

  • A rational woman wants to be beautiful for the same reason a rational man wants to be powerful--to be maximally attractive to a potential mate. The reason men prefer beautiful mates and women prefer powerful ones is best explained by evolutionary psychology. Isn't "feminism" (aka the cult of penis envy) dead anyways?

  • Define "beauty" though, everyone has a different standard for it. Women don't have to diet all the time in order to be attractive to themselves or others.

  • so many layers of this video reach the subconscious mind

  • I think the part where the guy is getting steadily more afraid from rumors about bad things that are going to happen is especially poignant for today. Something to keep in mind.

  • Exactly.

    OMG WERE LOSING THIS WAR!!!111

    Not really.

  • hmm, I recall a phrase POTUS said over and over to instill fear, "Weapons of Mass Destruction!" "Weapons of MASS DESTRUCTION!"

    There is a word that describes this, it's called "fear-mongering' look it up in a dictionary.

    It's what Hitler used, and you-know-who did too.

    Funny how there turned out to be no WMD though, isn't it?

  • If only Disney could reinvent Walt. He was a genius!

  • What are you talking about? He is still on ice

  • In Reason and Emotion: Are these revamped versions of Primative Pete and Miss Primative Pete from "The ABC's of Hand Tools"?

  • LOL 4:07-4:50

  • Bonbons!

    Heh heh... they could reuse that clip as a primer to "marriage"

    XD i crack me up hoho!

  • A family member said that this happened to her!

  • freud would be proud. i loved these educational films disney used to make. this was a favorite of mine when it was played on the old disney channel.

  • I miss cartoons....

  • Wow that was rather facinating

  • omg... it sounds like my thoughts when they clash together... but whats this have to do with hitler really?

  • How was this war propoganda? To me it looks like a psychology video the id and super ego...either way I like it :)

  • If only Disney still made these types of videos

  • If only Disney made these kinds of videos now.

  • I need to find the Disney Vault DVD with all these.

  • dude, i have been looking for this for like forever!!! thank you so much for posting!!

  • "Reason and Emotion"....?

    Mmmm, totalitarianism. Nice.

  • extremely platonic

  • lol, reminds my of Freudian theory, the ID and the Superego.

  • my thoughts exacly...

  • Wow, that was a really good cartoon!

  • hmm, this was pretty interesting :)

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