1. The Minions movies, like the Lego movies & many other animated films, are rooted in American myopia about class relations.https://twitter.com/JStein_Vox/status/922642107260702720 …
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6. A Disney animated feature, especially in early days, is above all a feat of organized labour: of coordinating countless artisans.
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7. The dream of Disney (only partially fulfilled) was to keep alive artisan craft values in age of industrial production
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8. Affiliation with artisanal culture partially explains Disney's recurring use of folkloric Gothic Middle Europe as setting
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9. Locations of toil are central to Diseny: Geppetto's workshop, cave of the Seven Dwarves, Cinderella's chateau where she cleans the floor
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"Assemble a team with specialized skills to perform a task" is one of the few genres of story film invented and describes filmmaking itself
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(maybe not correct to say "invented" but its certainly the medium where these stories became widespread and popular)
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Disney hated unions
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