Disney and Education

What Can You Learn from a Mouse?

Have You Learned Something

Academic or Historical from a

Disney Movie?

Walt Disney Studios• “Disney Brothers’ Cartoon Studio

• Steamboat Willie (1928)

• Silly Symphonies

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)

“I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”

- Walt Disney

World War II

• United States Military in Burbank Studios

• War Efforts• Training videos• Propaganda

• ‘Victory Through Air Power’ (1943)

“Welcome, workers of Nazi Land! Where the glorious privilege is yours to be a Nazi!

To work forty-eight hours a day for the Fuehrer!”

“Edutainment”

“The cartoon is a good medium to stimulate interest. It is an ideal medium for teaching and it has always been my hope that we could do something that way. But it would have to be of general interest, yet helpful in teaching.

It should be used for opening people’s minds and melting their needs. We have recently explained mathematics in a film and in that way excited public interest in this very important subject. Donald in Mathmagic Land stimulated interest in mathematics and turned out very well.”

-Walt Disney (1959)

Disneyland

People and Places

• Tomorrowland• ‘Man in Space’ (1955)

• Adventureland• ‘Water Birds’ (1960)

• Frontierland• ‘Davy Crockett at the Alamo’ (1955)

• Fantasyland• ‘A Story of Dogs’ (1954)

Moroccan Pavilion

Test Track sponsored by Chevrolet

Walt Disney World

• Magic Kingdom• Hall of Presidents• MainstreetUSA

• EPCOT• World Showcase

• American Adventure

• Future World• Innovations• Project Tomorrow

• Animal Kingdom• Conservation Station

History & Disney

Pocahontas (1995)

In sixteen hundred sevenWe sail the open sea

For glory, God, and goldAnd The Virginia Company

For the New World is like heavenAnd we'll all be rich and free

Or so we have been toldBy The Virginia Company

For glory, God and goldAnd The Virginia Company

Disney’s America

Disney’s America

If Disney’s America Was

Proposed Today, What Would You

Think?