3. Disney Did Quite Well Out Of The Depression
On December 21, 1937,
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, premiered in Los Angeles. It produced an unimaginable $1.499 million ($184,925,485IMDB), in spite of the Depression, and won a total of eight Oscars. Now, itd be pretty easy to see this as the precursor to modern-day Disneys ambivalence to economic crises, while their crusty executives have cigarettes made of $100 bills and gold leaf, lit with jewel-encrusted Olympic torches held by Aryan eunuchs. However, it could also be seen as a nod towards his tenacity since hed already had to declare bankruptcy once when the times were good! However you choose to look at it, the boy did good! In 1937, while most families were choosing their next Hooverville based on square-squattage, Disneys
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs took to the silver screen. It was his first full-length animated film and, thanks to foreign sales and a cavalier spirit towards capitalism, brought Walt $1.499 million during what people kept telling him was something called a depression. He never took much notice though since, after all, what kind of depression cant be cured by a tale of murder, misanthropy and a cruel set of parents who labelled their children at birth by either temperament or desired occupation? Exactly! He was doing a public service!