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Mickey: The Story of a Mouse

You see him on support posters, getting people to carpool, rationing, selling war bonds,...

You see him on support posters, getting people to carpool, rationing, selling war bonds, supporting the war effort
not from the front line but at home

Full Transcript

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You see him on support posters,
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getting people to carpool,
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rationing, selling war bonds,
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supporting the war effort not from the front line but at home.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:47:43
Uploaded
Mar 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Tremolo Productions,ABC News Studios

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Movie Summary

Mickey Mouse is one of the most enduring symbols in our history. Those three simple circles take on meaning for virtually everyone on the planet.
If you were a child at that point in time or a family, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:10
If you were a child at that point in time or a family,
But you, as a creator, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:07
But you, as a creator,
And so, when wartime came, Mickey was already there. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:06
And so, when wartime came, Mickey was already there.
There was a village in Poland in which the entire village was destroyed by the Nazis. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:07
There was a village in Poland in which the entire village wa...
And there are images left from that village - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:11
And there are images left from that village
And it's a shocking image within the Holocaust museum - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:11
And it's a shocking image within the Holocaust museum
Children in the camps were dressed up in Mickey Mouse costume, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:11
Children in the camps were dressed up in Mickey Mouse costum...
There was actually a comic strip written by someone in the camps, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:13
There was actually a comic strip written by someone in the c...
And at the end, he erases Mickey and says, "Mickey's gone back to America." - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:12
And at the end, he erases Mickey and says, "Mickey'...
Mickey was in the Holocaust because Mickey represented the possibility of escape, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:10
Mickey was in the Holocaust because Mickey represented the p...
And those dictators understood very well that was not what they were offering. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:07
And those dictators understood very well that was not what t...
We kind of have to think of Mickey as, like, before World War II - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:06
We kind of have to think of Mickey as, like, before World Wa...
Come on, Your Highness. Utopia is yours. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:06
Come on, Your Highness. Utopia is yours.
This migration to the suburbs, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:15
This migration to the suburbs,
Walt has a suburban house, has a very set, conservative life, really. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:07
Walt has a suburban house, has a very set, conservative life...
And he's a person now who's gone through nervous breakdowns, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:09
And he's a person now who's gone through nervous b...
He gets involved in HUAC - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:08
He gets involved in HUAC
It makes him a much more contained character than he was in the early years. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:06
It makes him a much more contained character than he was in ...
We wanna feel safe. We wanna feel familiar and protected. - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:05
We wanna feel safe. We wanna feel familiar and protected.
- 1953 was his last short, - Mickey: The Story of a Mouse 00:08
- 1953 was his last short,