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''The Grain That Built a Hemisphere'' is a 1943 short animated propaganda film about
corn Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...
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Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film p ...
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Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, later known as the Office for Inter-American Affairs, was a United States agency promoting inter-American cooperation (Pan-Americanism) during the 1940s, especially in commercial and econ ...
.Shale, Richard. (1982). Donald Duck joins up: The Walt Disney Studio during World War II (Studies in cinema). Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...
.https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/1943 Awards for 1943


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List of Allied propaganda films of World War II During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreig ...
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World War II and American animation World War II changed the possibilities for animation. Prior to the war, animation was mostly seen as a form of family entertainment. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a turning point in its utility. On December 8, 1941, the United States Army began ...


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* * * 1943 films 1943 animated films 1940s war films American World War II propaganda shorts 1940s Disney animated short films Documentary films about agriculture Maize Films directed by Bill Roberts Films produced by Walt Disney American black-and-white films {{Disney-animation-film-stub