Jun 16, 2013

Anti-war short film "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam" resurfaces online

A newly discovered Mickey Mouse short has been making the rounds on the Internet for the past week, but it was not produced by the Disney Studios. A rare 1968 short film, "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam," created by painter W. Lee Savage and graphic designer Milton Glaser, has resurfaced.

This one-minute short, while not technically accomplished, manages to make a powerful and subversive statement by manipulating a well-known graphic icon. Within seconds of arriving in Vietnam, Mickey Mouse, the symbol of goodness and hope, is destroyed, along with all Americans, and with it the myth of American moral superiority.

(via DangerousMinds.net) [5]