1. The hidden subtext of the classic Disney animated features is necessity of finding communal joy in industrial mass production.
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2. Think of dwarves in Snow White or mice & birds in Cinderella: the little people who do the hidden work that makes everything possible
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3. Hi ho! Hi ho! Hi ho! Hi ho! Hi ho! Hi ho, Hi ho It's home from work we go
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4. Film is an industrial art form from the start but Disney (along with Chaplin) was one of few moviemakers to make that thematic concern.
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5. A Disney animated feature, especially in early days, is above all a feat of organized labour: of coordinating countless artisans.
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6. The dream of Disney (only partially fulfilled) was to keep alive artisan craft values in age of industrial production.
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7. Affiliation with artisanal culture partially explains Disney's recurring use of historical Middle Europe as setting.
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8. Locations of toil are central to Diseny: Gestapo's workshop, cave of the Seven Dwarves, Cinderella's chateau where she cleans the floor
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@henryfarrell I take comfort in the fact that the error at least gives sentence several layers of new meaning.
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