Clarence Nash

Fred Shields

Cliff Edwards

Don Patterson

Ben Sharpsteen

Joe Grant

Andy Engman

Walt Disney

Kendall O'Connor

Oliver Wallace

Wilfred Jackson

Dick Huemer

Edwin Aardal

Dan MacManus

Joshua Meador

Louis Debney

Animation

The New Spirit

U.S. Department of Treasury

Walt Disney Productions

United States of America

CinemaSerf

I know that money isn’t what it was, but even in 1942 I’d have thought poor old “Donald” would be on more than $2,501 in an whole year! What does that matter? Well the slightly offbeat message for this wartime cartoon is “taxes against the axis”. Yep, it’s a rallying call for citizens of the USA to pay their income tax! With some rousing Yankee Doodle style cheerleading to start and some more traditional animations of the militarisation those dollars pay for at the end, this is a less frantic outing for the duck (who still sounds like Katharine Hepburn) and he does his bit to keep the payrolls of industry moving. The radio is quite a menacing looking gadget, like something from “Metropolis” (1927), but otherwise it’s all fairly standard stuff.

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