Disney '44 - Cleanliness Brings Health

Or 'Health Of The Americas'

In this propaganda cartoon, a narrator focuses on two families: the clean family and the careless family. The narrator explains how the two families differ. The clean family washes up all the time and keeps their house clean and food covered while the careless family does not wash up before eating and they do not keep their house very clean. Written by Coolguy imdb.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• cartoon
• animation
• disney
• wartime
• health
• america

[Shizalumni]

Wow, being "careless" makes your chickens turn pink and green and blue!

[rod2155]

Actually if you look cloesly at how Disney portraited the "Clean" family, they are not nessicerly any more rich than the "careless" family. Note how they use local materials to build the basic sanitary items in their house as opposed to BUYING them. this is actually a pretty good little film vs. many others of the day which would work to shame the poor into buying into a petty capitalist existance.

[WyczesanyBober]

Well...wow...ehem...I need to go wash my toilet :|

[xRaineDropsx]

Wow this is very informing.

[ChromeMaquilover22]

I guess they couldn't say "dirty" due to it being offensive...perhaps

[elpacman03]

This video was made to be shown to central and south american audiences as a "good will" from the united states to garner support for the allies and help stop the spread of the axis to latin america that's why the people apear in typical "steorotypical" latin american clothing.

[ivajdavis]

so mexicans are cleanless

[equilebrium]

Notice how they bathe "often" and not daily....

[Shizalumni]

@MWolfL So THAT'S where they come from!! :)

[MWolfL]

@Shizalumni

I wonder if they lay Easter Eggs? ;)

[KateMcT]

@AtmanRyu Actually, if you look at both families, they're both Hispanic.

[hagamablabla]

@rod2155 Indeed, this is back when Disney was good.